Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 2 | It was not raining , but droplets of moisture condensed on every cold surface and Wycliffe could taste the salt on his lips . |
| 3 | It is clear that these organizations have different points of unity depending on the concerns of their members . |
| 4 | As argued for above , a denial of re-hearing based on a ‘ last opportunity ’ rationale only convinces if premised on the foregoing of an opportunity which would have been afforded . |
| 5 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 6 | The report , endorsed by chief nursing officer Yvonne Moores , says : ‘ It is recommended that priority should be given to the achievement of change based on the systematic and structured methodology provided . ’ |
| 7 | Ethel Scrimgeour , ‘ a tall and handsome maiden lady given to piety and good works , whose appearance was made remarkable by an immense knot of hair twisted on the nape of her neck in the mid-Victorian way , ’ remained Joyce 's friend to the last . |
| 8 | Julian was telling me that erm he 's house on a Friday night is like a mad house because his daughter does a bit of hair dressing on the side , and she 's having people come to have their hair done |
| 9 | Minns brought a broad range of expertise to bear on a field extending from eastern Europe to China , while at the same time paying close attention to the antiquities and books of his own college , where he occupied the same rooms over a period of fifty-five years as undergraduate , fellow , president ( 1928–49 ) , and senior fellow . |
| 10 | A look of horror appeared on the Campbell 's clock face . |
| 11 | An inviting smell of liquor rose on the steam . |
| 12 | Two years ago the Chartered Institute of Building embarked on a five-year Strategic Plan to develop a more influential role in the building industry in both the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 13 | I suspect that part at least of the explanation lies in the pressures which structures of racism exert on the forms of resistance to it . |
| 14 | The style is interpreted as a new form of conservatism based on an alliance between poorer white farmers and an aristocracy beleaguered by a combination of factors , including a fall in tobacco prices , a rise in slavery , and a shift in local identity . |
| 15 | The order of feeding depends on the stoutness of bill . |
| 16 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 17 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 18 | Police chiefs say they had evidence of drug dealing on the site , and had met with violence when they approached before . |
| 19 | The extent of inequality depends on the variation in N and , magnified by the serial correlation induced by al in the former case , but moderated by the term . |
| 20 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Agriculture collaborated on the dog study and circulars have gone out urging villages to fence in their garbage dumps to deprive the animals of at least that source of food , but there is no wave of popular enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs wholesale . |
| 22 | I pulled it out , sat on one of the armchairs , and with a feeling of unreality started on the right-hand lock . |
| 23 | Thus a valuation or any other kind of decision made on an erroneous principle should fall with proof that the principle is erroneous . |
| 24 | Mr Milne was speaking after some 800 Breton fishermen smashed stalls and equipment at the Rungis market , emptied trucks of imports , crushed shellfish underfoot , pelted riot police with frozen fish and left hundreds of tons of seafood strewn on the ground . |
| 25 | The correlation of 0.37 reported by Watts & Quimby ( 1980 ) was of course based on the averaging of ranked data from all subjects . |
| 26 | The unique number , which must of course appear on the cost printout , will enable management to identify each individual docket but it may well be a laborious process to extract the costing details for one subsection of a project from the filing for the whole company . |
| 27 | These figures are of course calculated on the nursing agency rates . |
| 28 | These two amounts do not represent the upper and lower limits of the possible amount of the benefit — what is actually paid will of course depend on the possible bonuses added to the policy . |
| 29 | How much you arrange a CheckOver for , will of course depend on the extra cash you think you need . |
| 30 | The extent of losses from punishment of course depends on the form of punishment adopted ( we consider the question of the credibility of this punishment below , here we examine only its extent ) . |