Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 2 | Chainarong Noonpakdi , head of the First army region and responsible for directing the army units which fired on the unarmed demonstrators , was made director of the Institute of Army Academics . |
| 3 | ‘ No , it were n't an interositor , them has triangular screens and positronic wave cross-band modulators which operate on the principle of ionized beta photons bombarding the nucleus of an alpha particle . |
| 4 | All opportunities which appear on the ABN are screened against Buyers . |
| 5 | And her voice was a parody of a servant 's showing dissent , a politeness which verged on the impolite . |
| 6 | The cumulative effect is not unlike those children 's books which herd on the cover a mad whirl of characters — Red Indians , Cowboys , Kings and Queens , Soldiers , Pirates — all cluttered up together . |
| 7 | The supposedly most securely dated vessels are those which can be related to Continental chronologies ; vessels which occur on the Continent but not in England date to before the migration , those on both sides of the North Sea to the migration period itself , and those which are only found in England must have developed after the migration period . |
| 8 | Froggy , mainly for the sake of his generous retainer and the equally generous bonuses which glittered on the horizon , swore off drink , tobacco and even gambling . |
| 9 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 10 | Native peoples who depend on the forests for their livelihoods , and animal species like the Siberian tiger , have suffered . |
| 11 | However , U2 will have sorely disappointed fans who rely on the music press as their solo source of information . |
| 12 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 13 | and husbands who relied on the state to take over |
| 14 | When you start in public relations , you need to meet journalists who work on the newspapers : press receptions , product launches , pubs around Fleet Street , the Press Club — there are many ways to do this . |
| 15 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |
| 16 | That no similar slogan has come from the car workers is important , and is tied up with the fact that ‘ the car plants for the car workers ’ makes no sense to the lads who work on the line . |
| 17 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 18 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 19 | ( c ) Starling-like oxpeckers who live on the backs of large animals such as elephant , rhinoceros and cattle , in equatorial Africa . |
| 20 | The Carlton Girls , one of the many Tiller troupes who worked on the exhausting cine-variety circuits |
| 21 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 22 | The problem is that the same — different task and the labelling task are unlikely to be matched in the demands they make on the subjects . |
| 23 | In Rome these stressed the emperor 's achievements ( military victories , public works , etc. ) , his virtues and divine endorsement of his regime ; in the provinces they dwelt on the important cults or monuments of the city which made them . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the doubts it casts on the multitude of extensive verbatim passages in Johanson 's engaging account , this and other changes make one wonder whether legal evidence has become a consideration in reporting scientific expeditions . |
| 25 | It is in the erm statement of faith to substitute for the phrase by his death on the cross the words he died on the cross for the sins of the world . |
| 26 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 27 | Fundamentally , the program must present the demands it makes on the class as worthwhile , achievable and preferably , enjoyable . |
| 28 | The extent of the input by the business units themselves depends on the style of planning management adopted by the planning department . |
| 29 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 30 | Seabirds which hunt on the surface of the water use red oil droplets to cut out blue scattered light . |