Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.

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31 Some of the instruments on the telescope , especially those operating in ultra-violet light , were not expected to be seriously affected .
32 Q THIS year some of the buds on my clematis , Comtesse de Bouchard , have either dried up or produced very small flowers .
33 But I suppose really it was for supplies that came by ship to be carried to some of the houses on the hill , the Ranger 's House , or the Observatory . ’
34 It seems gang members cruising by thought some of the actors on set were for real and got heavy .
35 Some of the goods on sale are enticing Juranc , on wines , local sausage , the ubiquitous Pyrenean fromage de brebis or ewe's-milk cheese , worth trying if only out of local piety though hardly one of France 's great cheeses — others look likely to have a long shelf-life .
36 They were afraid in that some time or another , some of the fellers on the corner had been locked up for obstruction .
37 Being married to Brightman , he has said , has made it " much easier for performers to get in touch and feel they cart talk about their problems , and it 's a good thing for me to be aware of some of the problems on the other side of the theatre fence " .
38 But there is a widespread , though of course not universal , feeling that some of the restrictions on civil and political rights have been largely due to government 's desire to avoid criticism and political embarrassment and to suppress dissent .
39 However , in the spring of 1989 the Japanese Ministry of Finance relaxed some of the restrictions on arbitrage , and from then onwards the mispricings declined substantially , so that there were very few arbitrage opportunities by the end of the data period .
40 For example , some of the restrictions on the type of advice we can provide in particular circumstances are removed .
41 Several leading Democrats reacted to this by claiming that , were Thornburgh to remain in office , it would raise the appearance of a conflict of interest and would allow him to circumvent some of the restrictions on the raising of electoral funds .
42 The Building Societies Act 1986 removed some of the restrictions on lending by building societies .
43 Colin pointed out : ‘ Some of the blocks on offer pose particular environmental problems .
44 ‘ I used to carry out some of the jokes on my family , ’ says Jenny after serving one customer with a packet of exploding cigarettes . ’
45 We simply feel that your body might like to experience something different and these are some of the options on offer .
46 Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones .
47 Under pressure to clear up the confusion surrounding the direction of its Distributed Management Environment , Open Software Foundation DME technology manager Kathryn De Nitto says the group will make a statement within two weeks which should answer some of the questions on many lips .
48 Under pressure to clear up the confusion surrounding the direction of its Distributed Management Environment , Open Software Foundation DME technology manager Kathryn De Nitto says the group will make a statement within two weeks which should answer some of the questions on many lips .
49 There are similar implications in some of the questions on p.67 .
50 ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’
51 EDUCATION chiefs in the Southern Education and Library Board have been stumped by some of the questions on the 11-plus exam !
52 What could be worrying is the extremity of some of the observations on rap records , for instance .
53 He reversed some of the laws on language and education which discriminated against Tamils , and took to visiting some of the Tamils ' Hindu temples , even attempting the odd public statement in Tamil .
54 Thus , ME language states , being so variable , should in principle be suited to the same kind of analysis that we use in present-day social dialectology , and by using variationist methods we should be able to explore at least some of the constraints on variation that might have existed in ME .
55 Rain hung back and looked at some of the paintings on the wall near the door .
56 ‘ We are removing some of the cobwebs on the fringes of the Scottish legal system . ’
57 Some of the studies on the effect of dietary manipulation and blood pressure are shown in Table 3.3 .
58 In his judgment , Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. considered some of the authorities on the requirement that a decision-making body should give reasons for its decision , including a decision of the High Court of Australia in Public Service Board of New South Wales v. Osmond ( 1986 ) 159 C.L.R. 656 .
59 And actually some of the areas on the outskirts of Prestatyn were quite nice .
60 Note : some of the boxes on the form will be blank .
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