Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another great naval battle was fought at Leyte Gulf ( 23–24 October ) , in which the Japanese employed " kamikaze " ( suicide ) pilots to crash their explosive laden planes on to the American ships . |
| 32 | First gas started flowing from the field early in November , just a few weeks on from the original target of October . |
| 33 | Belgrade radio said Croatian forces fired mortars on to the Serbian town of Sid and attacked Yugoslav Army positions in central and eastern Croatia . |
| 34 | Trace the dotted lines on the paper templates on to the hardened icing cut-outs . |
| 35 | Three years on from the first album , Neneh admits that ‘ the till bells are ringing empty . |
| 36 | These new ones obviously , five years on from the other models , they offer a lot more technology . |
| 37 | sure , there may be some thinking that , there may also though be er if you move through to the forties you 're , y you 're twenty years on from the nineteen twenties , you , you 've had and you 've had deterioration in agricultural conditions er as , as we 've seen you 've got erm increasing landlord absenteeism , you , you 've got a downward , an upward pressure on rent in terms of how much was having to be paid in real terms , all of those things might have come together to , to , to push the peasant over and to push him outside . |
| 38 | Five years on from the original 1988 Wagner Report , the group made ten recommendations for the future beginning with the establishment of a new body to take over the group 's function . |
| 39 | Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns . |
| 40 | To maintain the exchange rate at this level the Bank of England will have to supply sufficient pounds on to the foreign exchange market to close the gap . |
| 41 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 42 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 43 | Fix the white discs on to the black discs to form wheels . |
| 44 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 45 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 46 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 47 | As he walked disconsolately away the hotheaded Cypriot crowd threw several missiles on to the running track — but fortunately none reached the Liverpool bench . |
| 48 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 49 | Further , such displacements of non-sexual fears on to the sexual deviant , be he or she actual , imagined , or constituted in and by the displacement , are made possible because other kinds of transgression — political , religious — are not only loosely associated with the sexual deviant , but ‘ condensed ’ in the very definition of deviance . |
| 50 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |
| 51 | Paint brown wood markings and black knots on to the brown door , and paint light brown ‘ mushroom ’ markings into the white wedge of the toadstool . |
| 52 | ‘ they then passed all the details on to the legal protection company , ’ he says . |
| 53 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 54 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 55 | Instead he put in an extra spurt to create a stockpile , giving him time to throw some finished logs on to the smaller heap . |
| 56 | Back in the drawing room , Alex Mair threw a couple of thin logs on to the glowing embers and went to get the drinks . |
| 57 | ERDAS GIS functions were used to overlay the ward boundaries on to the classified image and then count the number of pixels of each recognized land-cover type within each ward . |
| 58 | Sparta voted for war against Athens on this occasion in her own chamber , thereby getting Samos on to the Peloponnesian League agenda ; the Corinthians voted for peace in the second , decisive meeting , composed of the whole league ( Thuc. i.40 ) . |
| 59 | I turned from my contemplation of the inclement evening and eased my buttocks on to the warm radiator beneath the window . |
| 60 | Maslow argued that as one need is met then the individual moves on to the next need . |