Example sentences of "the [noun pl] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire . |
| 2 | The manufacturers are the people who are the experts on the contents and can inform the public as soon as a new product is launched . |
| 3 | So when he sees Rose staring at him with her dark , serious eyes among the crowds on the staircases in the interval ( this is at a concert ) he does n't hesitate for a moment , but goes straight up to her . |
| 4 | This proved to be the case : on 29 June 1960 the Cuban government — encouraged by Khrushchev 's statements of Soviet support — seized the refineries operated by the multi-nationals on the grounds that they had violated the law by their refusal to process Soviet petroleum . |
| 5 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 6 | When they had got beyond Stamford and to their destination , the wolf suddenly disappeared and the flames on the lances were extinguished . |
| 7 | The patterns on the masks , the shape of the wood , the touch of the wood , the smell of the wood , any smell you have incorporated , the bright colours , or the dull shades … all of these are part of the essential pattern , the essential knowledge , the unknowing knowing that is at the heart of magic . |
| 8 | They talked together about the tests ( and Isobel thanked God she understood so little of it ; it all sounded so complicated and unfriendly ) , and she watched the baby on the monitor screen high on the wall and the patterns on the machines , the ones linked up to the cot with its attachments for measuring his heartbeats and his breathing and his body temperature . |
| 9 | The Shaw solution to the inequality of the coal ration was simple : just change the signs on the compounds , A perfect balance system was introduced and there was no complaint from the officers ' batmen — well they would not would they " ? |
| 10 | He 'd just founded it , and seen to it that nomes lived comfortable and not very strenuous lives in it , and apart from putting the signs on the walls had n't really interfered very much . |
| 11 | No wonder the scribblers on the hustings have so much stale garbage blowing around their brains . |
| 12 | Wrecked cars were outside West Mercia Police headquarters today as a stark reminded of the dangers on the roads . |
| 13 | But this was unsuccessful also , for the casualties were unacceptable , and though some did reach the masonry , over all the ditches , few burdened with ladders and scaling-ropes managed to do so , and these were easily repulsed by the defenders on the wall-tops . |
| 14 | The blues are normally found on the ‘ peaceful ’ deities and the reds on the head-dresses of the ‘ angry ’ deities . |
| 15 | In the following year the public were lectured from the courts on the duties of parenthood when , expressing himself ‘ perfectly satisfied that these crimes can be traced to neglect of parents ’ , the Recorder of Bradford struck the familiar harmonies of discontent : ‘ Parents of this time , unfortunately , do not take sufficient care in bringing up their children . |
| 16 | Hitherto , her parents ' requests for withdrawal of her life-support measures had been denied by the courts on the grounds that the patient 's own wishes in the matter were unclear , and that nobody else was competent to make the decision on her behalf . |
| 17 | It is not open to challenge before the courts on the grounds of being unconstitutional . |
| 18 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , above the placard speed a severe gust can raise the loads on the wings and cause damage before the weak link has had time to break and relieve the situation . |
| 20 | The notes on the staves were reluctant to move , but they totally engrossed him . |
| 21 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 22 | I took photographs of the birds on the cliffs . |
| 23 | In idle moments or when there is not a lot going on on the dump , they fly across to annoy the birds on the pools . |
| 24 | Next day I started another form they were doing bird scaring , you know , scaring the birds on the fields . |
| 25 | The nuclei on the slides were stained with 1 µg/ml of 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride ( DAPI ) ( Sigma , USA ) in 0.2 M TRIS chloride buffered saline for one hour at room temperature in the dark . |
| 26 | We would n't let them meet on the corners because the people in the houses on the corners always used to complain of the row that they made — used to chase them . |
| 27 | His dacha was in the woods on the banks of the Moscova river . |
| 28 | The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view . |
| 29 | In part these various proposals reflected the circumstances of the areas concerned , whether they were densely or sparsely populated for instance ; but in part they represented the different emphasis in the proposals on the objectives being pursued . |
| 30 | The first part of the project will be concerned with identifying the effects of the mergers on the owners ( i.e. the shareholders ) of the firms involved . |