Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sally has seen the statuettes at my cottage on random occasions . |
| 2 | Obviously it will shake my thinking on these matters . |
| 3 | This is something which has been drawn to my attention on many occasions and would she not agree that there are many of us who very much regret the fact that so many parents er are find it difficult to exercise their right to vote , because there is so much opposition er at a local level from officials |
| 4 | Before very long , Wilson was constantly consulting me on a number of matters and even seeking my opinion on political issues — which he wisely always rejected . |
| 5 | I also want to compare the authors of the books , the style of their writing , the dialogue content , the different races included in each novel and my opinion on two outsiders in society one from each text . |
| 6 | I 'll be keeping my eye on future developments in piezoelectric inkjet technology . |
| 7 | For a comprehensive list of fixatives , see my article on soft pastels in the October 1992 issue . |
| 8 | ‘ I attempt Tube but am driven out again by gang of pubescent boys who want me to write my name on various bits of their exposed torsos . |
| 9 | Then I had to do some of the King 's business , but , because of my damaged finger , I did not have to write my name on any papers . |
| 10 | I was bought a large trunk and Uncle Charlie came round one Saturday morning and sign-wrote my name on both ends , with my house number . |
| 11 | These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects . |
| 12 | Dalton wrote in his diary , ‘ I have got my way on all essentials ’ . |
| 13 | An integral part of any theory of personhood concerns inner states of all kinds , and I shall be centring my discussion on indigenous ideas relating to some inner states important to the Chewong , an understanding of which , I shall argue , is necessary in order to understand their interpersonal behaviour and associated values . |
| 14 | My first step was to gather information on how I spent my time on school-related activities and attempt to create some form of time-analysis schedule . |
| 15 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 16 | Niemczak can compete in the London race , because the British Athletic Federation have lifted their ban on such competitors who tested positive and served their suspensions . |
| 17 | Thus , when the film was resubmitted to the Board in 1973 , it was classified ‘ X ’ ( 18 ) for nationwide release , with only a few scattered councils maintaining their ban on local screenings . |
| 18 | The charity has been ‘ much heartened ’ by her support on past visits to several hostels and shelters . |
| 19 | Jill Goolden gives her verdict on ten brands of this enduringly popular and distinctive tasting spirit |
| 20 | What factors do you think could change their reliance on such services ? |
| 21 | Historians construct their own personal picture of past events ( a ) on the basis of their interpretation of primary sources ( which they use as " evidence " to support their own viewpoint ) and ( b ) through their reliance on earlier historians ' work in the field of study ( i.e. secondary sources ) . |
| 22 | No less universal is their reliance on precious metals to fabricate them . |
| 23 | A two way repeated measures analysis of variance was used to evaluate the effects of treatment , of time , and of their interaction on selected variables . |
| 24 | In corporate finance , the conventional view in America and Britain still is that Japanese firms rely for most of their money on friendly banks that they have been wining and dining for years . |
| 25 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
| 26 | The big firms swelled up and joined up and spent their money on rubber plants for the office and new offices for the rubber plants — and , most of all , on themselves . |
| 27 | In any case , restive exporters are unlikely to let the government maintain its ban on new exports for long . |
| 28 | On the situation in South Africa , the Council deplored the present phase of serious violence but welcomed " further indications … that the process of change already begun is going ahead " , and decided to lift its ban on new investments in South Africa [ see also p. 37910 ] . |
| 29 | Midway through the debate , Ovadia Yosef , a former Sephardi chief rabbi and the spiritual mentor of the Sephardic Torah Guardians ( Shas ) , attempted to engineer a compromise whereby the government would respond positively to the US peace proposals , whilst maintaining its stand on certain aspects of East Jerusalem participation . |
| 30 | The multinational Phare economic reconstruction programme spent 20 per cent of its budget on environmental projects in 1990 ; this figure fell to 6 per cent in 1992 . |