Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Art of Laughter … a cartoonists job is all about drawing on the funny side of life … |
| 2 | They went on to consider whether the return during trading on one market leads the return during trading on the other markets . |
| 3 | Is this just an aberration , if you look at the road markings , you 'll see it seems to be official , cos the road is marked out for driving on the right , and the reason is that er , traffic law in this country says , that vehicles drive on the left , except in Savoy Street . |
| 4 | I dare say a good many rabbits would have kept quiet and thought about keeping on the right side of the Chief , but I 'm afraid I 'm not much good at that . |
| 5 | It goes on to Culworth , where it meets Banbury Lane , and may have proceeded along this Lane to the great markets of Northampton , where the cattle were sold in large numbers for fattening on the rich Midland pastures . |
| 6 | In those days there was considerable emphasis on its carcass quality and 60,000 fat Jutlands were sent to England with another 30,000 lean cattle going for fattening on the German marshes . |
| 7 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 8 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 9 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 10 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 11 | After sleeping on the split decision loss of his WBO super-bantamweight title to Puerto Rico 's Daniel Jimenez at the Lewisham Theatre , McKenzie and Duff both feel there is enough left to offer the world scene . |
| 12 | A risk-averse individual would only be indifferent between transacting on the forward market and transacting on the future spot market if the terms he expects on the uncertain future spot market were sufficiently more favourable than the forward market to encourage him to take the risk . |
| 13 | Literary theory is at present in demand as a point of reference for writing on the visual arts . |
| 14 | A lifetime of measuring men 's inside legs and making weak jokes about dressing on the right side or the left — ‘ of the bedroom , I mean , sir ! |
| 15 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 16 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 17 | A decline in the value of shares and the volume of trading on the new stock exchange , opened in 1989 [ see p. 37432 ] , persuaded the government to delay plans to reduce its share in state-owned enterprises . |
| 18 | Like every rule , it has means by which it is enforced ; in this case , if I break the rule of driving on the left-hand side of the road I can be prosecuted under a law of the land . |
| 19 | The 30-year-old Londoner , son of the late Graham Hill , steered his Canon Williams Renault on to the front row of the provisional grid alongside pole man and team-mate Alain Prost with a brilliantly controlled display of driving on the treacherous Interlagos track . |
| 20 | It filled space and was believed capable of acting on the nervous system of living forms directly , depending upon the individual fluctuating resonances in the body . |
| 21 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 22 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 23 | Her approach would be to treat spelling as a part of writing on the one hand and of pronunciation on the other . |
| 24 | The national curriculum guidance which has been issued at the time of writing on the two core subjects of mathematics and science shows a welcome emphasis on statements of attainment rather than testing . |
| 25 | Whereas the way now seems clear for development at Colt Hill between now and 1995/96 , despite the lack of schools capacity , the two sites owned by the Regional Council , which the Local Plan will reaffirm for housing development ( viz. East Braehead and Listloaning ) , are to be denied until after 1995 ( well after the projected survival of the Regional Council — thereby constraining the prospect of capitalising on the full value of these assets ) . |
| 26 | The carcinogenic effects of smoking on the respiratory tract are well known , but the effect of smoking on the stomach is less well known , although there is much circumstantial evidence that smokers are at a higher risk of developing gastric carcinoma . |
| 27 | Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side . |
| 28 | The effect of imprinting on the sexual preferences of birds was made famous many years ago by Konrad Lorenz ( 1935 ) . |
| 29 | It follows that in my judgment the public law duties of the council were not discharged until they had completed the process of deciding on the suitable accommodation which they were obliged to secure for the plaintiff . |
| 30 | Robb left former UK champion Simon Fairbrother trailing in his wake after a furious sprint for the line and the 21year-old medical student confirmed his fitness for a summer of racing on the European athletics circuit . |