Example sentences of "[noun prp] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind Verdun on the Left Bank the undulating hill and wooded country continues for some twenty-five miles , as far as Ste. Ménéhould . |
| 2 | to Norton near Long Buckby on the Grand Junction ( the ‘ Grand Union ’ ) between 1808 and 1814 , is described fully by Philip Stevens in The Leicester Line . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Prime Minister on his initiative yesterday with President Mitterrand on the Soviet Union ? |
| 4 | Paul Mason , on the right , found Mixu Paatelainen on the left edge of the St Johnstone area . |
| 5 | Peter Hooton offers a new history of the humble training shoe ; plus John McCready on the old school fool |
| 6 | In Lepidoptera , Homoptera and Orthoptera on the other hand , R.Q values of about 0–7 occur and fat reserves are depleted . |
| 7 | Sycomore SA , the Paris-based services and consultancy company founded a year ago to specialise in open systems , will distribute software tools from Tivoli Systems Inc of Austin , Texas on the French market . |
| 8 | Or there is Nikias who ( iii.91 ) sails from Melos to Oropos on the Boiotian border , thence to Boiotian Tanagra , to meet Hipponikos coming from Athens . |
| 9 | As the trail approaches the shore of Lough Erne on the main road it crosses the narrow channel of water between Trasna Island and the mainland and travels along the north shore of the island . |
| 10 | His body and the wreckage of his PA 28 Cherokee single engine plane were found at Horseshoe Hill on the southern edge of Stanhope Moor at about 10.50pm . |
| 11 | As dusk gradually falls at the end of Mid-summer 's Eve a flicker of bonfires links the highest points of Cornwall , from the far West to Kit Hill on the English border . |
| 12 | One of South-East Asia 's richest botanical areas , the slopes of Mount Apo on the Philippine island of Mindanao , is to be cleared to make way for a geothermal power plant . |
| 13 | Fullback Theo Van Rensburg keeps Currie Cup leaders Transvaal on the right track , but the positive dope test on prop Bailie Swart ( second from right ) and replacement prop Johan Le Roux has put their beefy pack under the microscope . |
| 14 | England 's most capped flanker spoke to Today rugby union writer TONY ROCHE on the classic confrontation : The irresistible force meeting the immovable object . |
| 15 | Moodie , despite a clutch problem on his Honda , closed within four seconds at Ramsey on the final lap , but the 37 year-old Reid put the power down and pulled away to win for the second successive year . |
| 16 | Heidi on the other hand , works cheerfully in Brussels , and is third in line for Director-General of Flavoured Yogurts and Soft Cheeses . |
| 17 | Lill on ASV on the other hand interprets this as a clearly defined slower central section which , to my ears at least , makes a great deal more musical sense — this is backed up by a comparison of the overall timings ; Gavrilov knocks a whole minute off Lill 's 7′53″ , which is quite a lot considering the brevity of this sonata . |
| 18 | They imported via Kythera two fine ornamental stones , Spartan basalt and rosso antico , from Lakonia on the Greek mainland . |
| 19 | Volvo on the other hand is testing buses fitted with filters like dustbins , which are cleaned at the end of a day . |
| 20 | Richard Barnett on the thorny subject of setaside.Time for a break now , and then we 'll be looking round at what 's on offer to the visitor at this year 's show . |
| 21 | LDDC on the other hand was charged with the regeneration of a massive eight square miles where entire communities lived and worked and which was the focus of a well-advanced redevelopment strategy — the London Docklands Strategic Plan — approved by the GLC , local authorities and the Department of the Environment . |
| 22 | The Victoria Cross , the highest British accolade for bravery in action , was awarded posthumously to 16-year-old John Travers Cornwell , serving at Jutland on the light cruiser HMS Chester . |
| 23 | After I have put the phone down I sit gazing at Kyle on the opposite side of the airwell . |
| 24 | Philip Henry Stanhope , fifth Earl Stanhope on the other hand , was clearly an enlightened amateur with an established reputation as a historian . |
| 25 | In the early months of 1332 these lords began to organize an invasion of Scotland to recover their lands and place Balliol on the Scottish throne . |
| 26 | From the window of Kate 's room they watched Mrs Blakey on the distant seashore throwing driftwood for the setters . |
| 27 | You will find most of your fellow-passengers have booked KLM on the unhesitating recommendation of both their friends and their Travel Agent . |
| 28 | Another relative and rector of the Patrimony was James , son of John Odoline , a cousin , and count of Andria , who had been papal marshal and commander of Innocent 's troops in Sicily in 1200 – 1201 , to whom he granted the fortress of Ninfa on the southern border . |
| 29 | Plymouth on the other hand relies mainly on the fact that it 's a m urban conurbation with a growing and diversified industrial and commercial base . |
| 30 | He had left his hometown of Kiel in northern Germany and covered the distance to Wissembourg on the Franco-German border in the space of ten days but he was still uncertain where he was ultimately headed . |