Example sentences of "on [art] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hurls itself around the island and in seconds the sea is alive , ugly waves crashing over the boats , white horses flicking over the surface on the hooves of the wind . |
| 2 | Then he 'd gone into Belfast with the samples and had cracked the car 's exhaust on the ramps outside a police station . |
| 3 | They felt that it was important that public officers concerned with citizens — judges , the police , the armed services , even teachers , doctors land nurses — should receive training on the obligations of the state and on the rights of citizens . |
| 4 | Troop Sergeant-Major Haines — landed from ML 6 — reported to Newman and early in the fight lay out in the open with a 2-inch ( 51mm ) mortar firing on the guns across the submarine basin . |
| 5 | Paul Sieveking on the phantoms of the Beltway |
| 6 | A few observations on the conditions of the deep-water sediments are also relevant to some perennial theories explaining ‘ monster ’ sightings . |
| 7 | AS the powder passes through the flame , particles can become molten or partly molten depending on the conditions of the process . |
| 8 | specify outcomes which place emphasis on the conditions of the workplace ; |
| 9 | The Treaty on the Conditions of the Limited Stay and Procedures for the Planned Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from the Federal Republic of Germany was signed on Oct. 12 . |
| 10 | The two quantities are related , in the absence of excluded volume effects , for simple chains by but as the actual dimensions obtained can depend on the conditions of the measurement , other factors must also be considered . |
| 11 | We want to get back to work but the attacks on the conditions of the Timex workers make the Hoover negotiations look like a love-in . |
| 12 | While there was a cultural aspect to this battle ( the Telagu people faced discrimination as a linguistic minority ) it is stressed that the struggle was focused on the conditions of an agricultural economy organised around a system of landlords and tenants . |
| 13 | The students should be encouraged to identify what the profit per bed is likely to be next year , i.e. based on the conditions at the end of the year it is likely to be only £10 per bed . |
| 14 | Some examples : third-world debt ; good and bad official aid ; the effects of present trade structures on the countries of the South ; theories of development ; the arms trade and development ; women and development ; input on particular countries and regions . |
| 15 | Dobson 's study ( 1968 ) of orthoepic evidence , on the other hand , relegates occasional spellings to a secondary position , and relies more closely on the descriptions of the ‘ best ’ orthoepists . |
| 16 | I 'm on the earlies in the morning now . |
| 17 | Differences of focus : on the forms of the language on institutionalised requirements on the needs of the learner on social interaction |
| 18 | By late July a conference between ‘ the Six ’ in Paris had agreed in principle on the basics of a High Authority . |
| 19 | There was also general agreement that there should be an international authority operating on the lines of a domestic regulatory board , with the power to regulate routes , arbitrate in disputes , and set technical standards . |
| 20 | In December 1940 , Wolverton Road Vehicle Shop undertook the construction of four Mobile Kitchens , on the lines of a container which could be lifted and placed either on a road trailer or lorry , or on a railway freight wagon — exactly the same idea as the container which the LMS developed pre-war for removing furniture directly from door to door . |
| 21 | Previously the attic had been a splendidly light studio for Veronica 's work , now it has become an all-white , easy-to-clean room on the lines of a special-care baby unit . |
| 22 | Commending the Criminal Justice Bill to Parliament in 1947 the Home Secretary , Chuter Ede , said that it followed closely on the lines of a Bill which had been before the House of Commons in the session 1938/9 . |
| 23 | Achimota was organised on the lines of a British public school with the boarders grouped in ‘ houses ’ which were supposed to inculcate the team spirit : however , it was more than a boarding school . |
| 24 | For a small number of less contentious bills , the normal proceedings of the standing committee were preceded by three sessions conducted on the lines of a select committee . |
| 25 | Something on the lines of a direct informal approach … man to man … straight from the shoulder … |
| 26 | Each of these fields is conceived on the lines of a ‘ market ’ , with producers and consumers of the symbolic goods produced in the field . |
| 27 | While in modern society , power is conceived on the lines of a structuralism , in which it is impersonal structures that exercise power over individuals . |
| 28 | Instead , if Birmingham is to saved , then some sort of balance sheet parachute should be concocted on the lines of a long-term equity injection such as preference shares or even a convertible bond . |
| 29 | The nuances are often quite subtle , but the following example shows how the press is trying to construct a sex maniac , while the police seem to be thinking more on the lines of an abductor without sexual assault necessarily being involved . |
| 30 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |