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 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 4 | Although Voipreux seems to have jumped from nowhere to a 95% premier cru , it does possess some choice sites nestled between Vertus and Villeneuve-Renneville on the lower east-facing slopes of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 5 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Prime Minister on his initiative yesterday with President Mitterrand on the Soviet Union ? |
| 6 | Paul Mason , on the right , found Mixu Paatelainen on the left edge of the St Johnstone area . |
| 7 | Samuels was with Adams on the 1988 youth tour of Australia and his Cup returns of 426 runs at 47.33 earned him a place in the West Indies team for the series against England A as opening batsman . |
| 8 | As a final straw , on going to change Perdita discovered she 'd got the curse , which was invariably as bloody as Culloden on the first day . |
| 9 | Peter Hooton offers a new history of the humble training shoe ; plus John McCready on the old school fool |
| 10 | In Lepidoptera , Homoptera and Orthoptera on the other hand , R.Q values of about 0–7 occur and fat reserves are depleted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Racing : Braiswick brings era to a close : Richard Edmondson on the last victory for a racing dynasty before it becomes absorbed by the Maktoum empire |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Gorbachev on the same day described Iraq 's invasion as treacherous and a blatant violation of international law , calling for a political solution and warning of a possible " chain reaction endangering the whole world community " . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | England 's most capped flanker spoke to Today rugby union writer TONY ROCHE on the classic confrontation : The irresistible force meeting the immovable object . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Heidi on the other hand , works cheerfully in Brussels , and is third in line for Director-General of Flavoured Yogurts and Soft Cheeses . |
| 23 | However , the difference between the systems of property rights in countries such as Britain , America , Germany , Hong Kong and Indonesia on the one hand and Russia , East Germany , Vietnam and China , is still sufficiently great to enable us to label the former capitalist and the latter socialist . |
| 24 | The clash in underlying values between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the former Soviet Union on the other , is illustrated by the fact that an act of financial speculation — which has not only led to the accumulation of great wealth but has also occasionally received public honour in Britain and the United States — might have earned the perpetrator the death sentence in the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | I 'll erm , I 'll venture and , and my parents said yes , that would be alright and so er so I came along and erm of course , it happened that he was in the he was in the forge talking to Hector on the first evening I came and that was how we met . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They imported via Kythera two fine ornamental stones , Spartan basalt and rosso antico , from Lakonia on the Greek mainland . |
| 28 | Volvo on the other hand is testing buses fitted with filters like dustbins , which are cleaned at the end of a day . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |