Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Use female screws on the outside , and screw covers on the interior ones |
5 | But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region . |
6 | Jacob 's dying blessing focusses on the distant future , when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The M-form economizes on the bounded rationality of top management by decentralizing operational decisions to the divisional level . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
14 | To frame a happy picture , a timber clubhouse of imposing Swedish design stands on the highest point , a monument to local golfing aspirations . |
15 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | ‘ 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 … |
20 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | That is why the man with binoculars stands on the opposite side of the road . |
23 | Since the opening of the Torpoint turnpike , around 1820 , it has been Sheviock that now stands on the main thoroughfare . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 |
26 | ‘ Always looks on the dark side . |
27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
28 | MISERY GUTS Rod Mackay never looks on the bright side of life he does n't believe there is one ! |
29 | Lyle , who was born in Shropshire , but now lives on the exclusive Went-worth estate , is scheduled to move into a 16-bedroom home near Edinburgh in February and he added : ‘ Who knows , the baby might even be born in Scotland . ’ |
30 | Lisa is eighteen and now lives on the nineteenth floor of a block of London flats with her nine-month-old daughter . |