Example sentences of "on [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | The Oxford-educated daughter of a Norfolk farmer , she began her career as a local authority education officer and inspector of schools , married a headmaster she met on site — he is now an education administrator — moved on through the ranks of Norfolk County Council and chaired Norwich Health Authority . |
2 | It continues on through the pages of Scripture to the very last words of the book of Revelation . |
3 | It is carried on through the medium of lullabies . |
4 | This continuity is now being carried on through the firm of Baker Bros . |
5 | She saw them in the sky , just a small group of them , but they brought death , she knew that , as they flew steadily on through the calm of the summer morning . |
6 | The motorspeeder journeyed on through the plains of Sakkrat . |
7 | The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry . |
8 | You continue on through the meadows of Cock marsh — a Site of Special Scientific Interest — to the banks of the Thames . |
9 | They were stopped at a sentry post to have passes checked and moved on through the wool of the fog , traffic sounds muted , an anguished cry from the Thames as a ship sounded its foghorn on the way down to the sea . |
10 | They jogged on through the crowd of frightened people leaving the area , while the wizard took great mouthfuls of cool dawn air . |
11 | I bade Jamie and his mother goodnight and walked on through the outskirts of town to the track heading for the island , then down the track in blackness , sometimes using my small torch , towards the bridge and the house . |
12 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
13 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
14 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
15 | I heard them in the kitchen once , Mrs Donaldson and old Todd , going on about the sort of kid I was . |
16 | He 's been going on about the dignity of labour . ’ |
17 | This means making decisions very early on about the contents of the whole essay ( e.g. by writing an initial synopsis ) . |
18 | We had a phone call erm a year or two ago Mrs did a lot of work on this with petition 's and so on about the costs of pensioner 's for animal treatment , because the P D S A no longer operates in Harlow and the nearest one I think is Edmonton , which makes it impossible . |
19 | Listen to people on the Continent going on about the inadequacies of their own health-care systems . |
20 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
21 | They bubbled with enthusiasm , all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk . |
22 | Angela got up my nose as usual on this point over lunch , banging on about the importance of seeing that Ministers were properly informed and by the right people . |
23 | Students of linguistics are taught early on about the importance of binary oppositions like this one , and are encouraged to look for two-term contrasts , x and not-x , in the linguistic data they analyse . |
24 | Corporate luminaries cackle on about the importance of quality , yet all too often use this management-babble as a substitute for effective leadership . |
25 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
26 | Boswell rattled on about the prospect of other travels with Johnson , perhaps to Sweden , where , hoped Boswell , they would see the King . |
27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is appalling that the Opposition whinge on about the failure of this country to export , when we know that what we need from both sides of the House is unanimity to help exporters and not complaints about them ? |
28 | She was always on about the amount of tea he drank . |
29 | As the winds begin to blow , the race is on off the coast of Britain to break the world windsurfing record . |
30 | GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India . |