Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The red stone gleamed in the sun ; the white birds floated on the thermals , wheeling in silent inspection ; on the rocks below , other birds screamed now and then . |
| 2 | As in so much of eighteenth-century Sussex local patterns depended on the experiences of one family , yet overall the role of the aristocracy and gentry remained more or less unquestioned . |
| 3 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 4 | The clay model of a priestess in a swing , also from Agia Triadha , shows birds perched on the swing-posts , as if the act of meditative swinging itself had induced the epiphany ( Figure 42 ) . |
| 5 | Eyes like beetles caught on the bushes . |
| 6 | Maggie LeMan kept her eyes riveted on the occupants of the stage for a moment , where they were bowing and making the best of the half-hearted appreciation now being shown by clapping punctuated with cat-calls ; then , slowly leaning to the side , she picked up the bird cage as she said , ‘ What do I want with a concert party ? |
| 7 | I presume that the nature of the images formed on the retinas of observers is relatively independent of their culture . |
| 8 | This has underlined that the price of popularising rugby union has been the increase in pressures off the field , which can be as significant as the demands made on the players themselves . |
| 9 | Because of the interesting , usually technical , demands made on the performers , their ballets often become testing grounds for future soloists . |
| 10 | The intense political debate on whether and how to amend Germany 's liberal asylum law , which had allowed the influx of hundreds of thousands of mainly economic migrants since 1990 , was resolved on Dec. 6 when leaders of the main political parties agreed on the terms of a constitutional amendment [ see also pp. 38544-55 ; 39066 ; 39206 ] , subsequently approved ( on Dec. 15 ) by the parliamentary party of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) . |
| 11 | In the hills of Fezzan in southern Libya and at Tassili-n-Ajer in Algeria are galleries of madder-coloured animals engraved on the rocks : rhinoceros and giraffes , elephants and hippopotami , buffalo and antelope , all of which once grazed the lush pastures of the Sahara . |
| 12 | This method has been used since , and others have been added to it , including methods based on the effects of Jupiter on the paths of fly-by spacecraft . |
| 13 | In keeping with its standing as an independent body with a built-in majority of teachers , the Council was committed to the thesis that ‘ each school should have the fullest measure of responsibility for its own curriculum and teaching methods based on the needs of its own pupils and evolved by its own staff ’ . |
| 14 | Voices sounded on the stairs and came nearer . |
| 15 | IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king . |
| 16 | individual entries displayed on the terminals may be retrieved from the database , or restored to the database on average within ten seconds |
| 17 | His steps echoed on the stairs , firm but ponderous . |
| 18 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 19 | Behind him , Briant sat calmly , legs outstretched , his hands thrust into the pockets of his near-white coat , his eyes fixed on the toes of his highly polished shoes as he rocked his crossed ankles in a slow rhythm . |
| 20 | The value of the Survey 's findings on book condition is that they relate to material actually issued to readers , and do not simply describe books stored on the shelves . |
| 21 | The paper proposed a computer with a store of 409640-bit words stored on the faces of a number of " Selectrons " or electrostatic storage tubes , this being a device able to provide random-access storage before the introduction of the ferrite core store ( first used on the Whirlwind computer at MIT in 1953 ) . |
| 22 | The deckchairs flapped , the youngsters played on the outfield , the old gentlemen put on the caps and began to leave as Arlott summed up one more day of country cricket . |
| 23 | If he succeeeds , the council will be barred from paying the losses incurred on the transactions . |
| 24 | For a small number of less contentious bills , the normal proceedings of the standing committee were preceded by three sessions conducted on the lines of a select committee . |
| 25 | They consisted of a historical introduction , a list of stipulations , curses and blessings invoked on the parties , a solemn oath and a religious ceremony to ratify the covenant . |
| 26 | Holdings of unit trusts plainly are not holdings of money , neither are the periodic bonuses accumulated on a with-profits life assurance policy . |
| 27 | The designs carved on the sealstones were very varied . |
| 28 | Our voices rocked on the pauses , becalmed . |
| 29 | The reversionary or annual bonuses paid on the bonuses already declared on with-profits endowments have been reduced from 7 to 5 per cent — although the bonus on the benefit assured remains at 3 per cent . |
| 30 | For Windows 3.0 users there is a separate set of drivers held on the drivers disk ( they actually work under 3.1 as well , but not as fast as the proper 3.1 drivers ) . |