Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Hall collection , though primarily painted works made for hanging , extends these preoccupations : Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 's ‘ Fleshy Face ’ meditates on the feminine-coded colour pink with mordant hyperbole ; Judith Cowan 's ‘ Skin and Blister ’ ( rhyming slang for ‘ sister ’ ) transforms a common saucepan into an authoritative sculptural form ; Maggi Hambling takes a shocking newspaper image of a Gulf woman in a chador wielding a bazooka and suffuses it again with blooming pink , the garish , violated hue of feminine cosiness . |
| 2 | Philip meditates on the narrative representation of action : ‘ Strange how the reality of the past comes to our mind most immediately as fiction . |
| 3 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 4 | But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region . |
| 5 | Jacob 's dying blessing focusses on the distant future , when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land . |
| 6 | Whereas make focusses on the mere producing of an effect , get evokes something which precedes the effect — prolonged efforts in ( 170b ) , persuasion winning out over unwillingness in ( 171b ) — and so to must be used before the infinitive to represent the latter 's event as a result coming after what led up to it . |
| 7 | With water privatization looming large , and with prosecutions against farmers for pollution continuing at an arguably pitiful level , concern naturally focusses on the future accountability of water companies to keep water courses clean . |
| 8 | In particular the debate focusses on the American variety of independent film , of which there have been a large number at this year 's festival , ranging from Jim Jarmusch 's annoyingly fashionable Mystery Train to Julia Cameron 's God 's Will , which cost only 31,000 dollars to make . |
| 9 | On the death of father or mother the guardianship devolves on the surviving spouse ; but either can by deed or will appoint guardians to act with the survivor . |
| 10 | The M-form economizes on the bounded rationality of top management by decentralizing operational decisions to the divisional level . |
| 11 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |
| 12 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 13 | To frame a happy picture , a timber clubhouse of imposing Swedish design stands on the highest point , a monument to local golfing aspirations . |
| 14 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 15 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 16 | At that time the square was bigger , with the palazzo standing at its centre , and the northern limit being the Palazzo Giureconsulti which now stands on the far side of Via Mercanti . |
| 17 | These ridges have been built with considerable rapidity for Camber Castle stands on the innermost ridge , although , when it was constructed in 1538–9 , it stood on the ridge next to the sea . |
| 18 | ‘ that , on general principles , an injury transmitted from the actor to a person through his own organic substance , or through his mother , before he became a person , stands on the same footing as an injury transmitted to an existing person through other intervening substances outside him … |
| 19 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 20 | Most people who have travelled through the Monkton district of Ayrshire will have noticed the monument that stands on the high ground behind the Dutch House Caravan Park , and wondered what it is and why it is there . |
| 21 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |
| 22 | Since the opening of the Torpoint turnpike , around 1820 , it has been Sheviock that now stands on the main thoroughfare . |
| 23 | A friendly , family-run hotel in the popular resort of San Bartolomeo al Mare , the Bergamo stands on the main road close to the sea and within walking distance of the picturesque , hill-top village of Cervo . |
| 24 | John Rymouth stands on the 20 foot single piece , arched stone bridge across a mountain stream and points to the Cylopean walls discovered on a hill top in the Rennes valley |
| 25 | ‘ Always looks on the dark side . |
| 26 | ‘ The Russian Empire ’ , wrote Catherine II in 1764 , ‘ is so large that apart from the Autocratic Sovereign every other form of government is harmful to it , because all others are slower in their execution and contain a great multitude of various horrors , which lead to the disintegration of power and strength more than that of one Sovereign , who possesses all the means for the eradication of all harm and looks on the general good as his own . ’ |
| 27 | MISERY GUTS Rod Mackay never looks on the bright side of life he does n't believe there is one ! |
| 28 | Lisa is eighteen and now lives on the nineteenth floor of a block of London flats with her nine-month-old daughter . |
| 29 | This is a large species of eagle owl , hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti . |
| 30 | Though he lives on the French-Italian border , most of his frauds are perpetrated from Amsterdam . |