Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , Bede had a direct influence on the Carolingian renaissance of the ninth century through his pupil Egbert , who became Archbishop of York and trained Alcuin , who under Charlemagne founded the Frankish schools that did so much to stimulate learning on the Continent . |
| 2 | It provides a point of reference for those starting on the standard-setting road by identifying objectives for care bases on Henderson 's classification of the components of nursing . |
| 3 | Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt . |
| 4 | Knighted in 1946 , he continued to live in Oxford , to study in a room provided by his old college , and to write — in particular his volume on the Thirteenth Century in the Oxford History of England . |
| 5 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 6 | In his home at Denbigh Terrace , Richard Branson flicked off the television , breathed deeply on the tangible aroma of excitement in the air and allowed a broad smile to crease his face . |
| 7 | Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands . |
| 8 | Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija . |
| 9 | Today on the fertile plains of Central America cattle graze peacefully . |
| 10 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 11 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 12 | This is an interestingly eclectic argument which recalls Gadamer on the ‘ fusion of horizons ’ ( the reader 's and the text 's ) , Marcuse on the utopian possibilities of high culture , and Sartre on the necessarily progressive implications of major literature . |
| 13 | However , too heavy an emphasis on the affective dimensions of care-giving can obscure the sheer physical and emotional labour involved ( as the current rhetoric of ‘ community care ’ indeed does ) . |
| 14 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |
| 15 | Bill Mishkin has an office on the 54th floor of the RCA building . |
| 16 | He tossed the first stone at the small wooden framed bedroom window on the lefthand side of the cottage , keeping a wary eye on the righthand window at the same time . |
| 17 | The images play on the deepest fears of the adventurers , and the man in the mask laughs again . |
| 18 | A great Himalayan climb draws on the deepest resources of body and mind . |
| 19 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |
| 20 | The practical consequence of the range of laws we have described was that , by 1979 , the freedom to engage in peaceful protest in this country was traditionally dependent not on the law but rather on the benevolent exercise of discretion by those in power . |
| 21 | Work is being undertaken on the feeding behaviour of ungulates and how feed quality affects optimum body size , a topic of both ecological and agricultural importance . |
| 22 | Then she saw that beneath her on the sacred site of Callanish all of the men and the eagles who had fought had disappeared . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's proved that he is capable of scoring goals and although he can improve on the defensive side of his game his passing skills are a tremendous asset . ’ |
| 24 | If the thought of a lengthy moorland return is unappealing , an alternative way to get to the best of the escarpment in a shorter time is to start from a parking area near a prominent standing stone on the unclassified road to Trecastle . |
| 25 | It was on the teetotal platform in September 1833 that ‘ Dicky ’ , as temperance reformers affectionately called him , won his modest place in British history . |
| 26 | Alan Walton 's refreshing undergraduate text on the atomic constitution of The Three Phases of Matter , as the title has it , is now in its second edition . |
| 27 | On the fell edge near Brackensgill we looked down to where the river Dee meanders through the valley like a slow-worm . |
| 28 | " Well then , Sara , " Slater said , leaning one-elbowed on the shoulder-high wood of the mantelpiece . |
| 29 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
| 30 | Glaxo believed it was unnecessary to do this because cells sitting on the inner surface of the gut wall do not divide . |