Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This identification put Giraud and his American backers on the defensive and ultimately proved to be de Gaulle 's trump card . |
| 2 | The ‘ Royal ’ come snot from any posthumous title bestowed on the late and much lamented ‘ Lenny ’ , but from the use of water colours by HRH Prince Charles on the covers . |
| 3 | Mace claims that 450 software packages certified by the test suite are guaranteed to run on the 80 or so different systems using the 88000 chip . |
| 4 | Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street . |
| 5 | After each auction , the Bank publishes details of the average yield on accepted bids and the yields on the highest and lowest accepted bids . |
| 6 | It 's very thick on the outside but almost , you can almost see through some of the bone in the base there and that can be caused by as , a blow on the head if it 's the bolt of the erm brain that 's caused , got the injury , or from the base of skull is usually caused by er landing on your feet from heights , and |
| 7 | Fear on the inside and now fear on the outside as well . |
| 8 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 9 | This involves a major change in shape , for the cells that will form the gut are a small patch on the outside and so must move inwards ; this infolding of the wall will move right across the hollow interior to meet the wall on the other side where the mouth will form . |
| 10 | The Sun , your ruling planet , changes signs on the 19th and so begins one of the most exciting , romantic and memorable periods of the year . |
| 11 | We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands . |
| 12 | John Wood ( who later left the BBC to work on feature films ) was the first , cutting his teeth on the grandiose and very expensive ‘ The Web Planet ’ serial , with Spencer Chapman second on ‘ The Space Museum ’ . |
| 13 | Early explanations of frost weathering alighted on the simple and seemingly obvious effect of the 9 per cent volume expansion which accompanies the phase change from water to ice . |
| 14 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 15 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 16 | the explanatory power and potential planning applicability of geographic theory does not depend on the employed and usually specified spatial axioms but rather on the unspecified axioms about individual and group behaviour . |
| 17 | The election 's impact on the longer term future of the DLP was less easy to assess , however , particularly in terms of its effect on the delicate and potentially explosive balance between the three disparate groups from which the party had been forged . |
| 18 | ‘ You think they 'll find he was absent on the eleventh as well as the sixth ? ’ |
| 19 | We can not do everything in a very limited time , so we must select what is essential on the fairest and most comprehensive basis possible : that is , what we think may help pupils to cope with , and make decisions about , things which happen to them — at any age and at any level ; and also what will encourage responsibility concerning the effects they themselves have on others . |
| 20 | It does not , for instance , impinge on the fifteen or so criteria for sound initial teacher training which come from the CATE in its guidance about the professional education of those who teach in schools . |
| 21 | But the most surprised man in the field was Gillner when he was approached by a PGA European Tour official on the 13th and politely asked to take his time . |
| 22 | These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards . |
| 23 | But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge . |
| 24 | How are you gon na deal with passive people on the right and how are you gon na deal with aggressive people . |
| 25 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 26 | The Group met three times during the year to try and ensure a balanced representation on the sixty or so committees . |
| 27 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 28 | In the winter of 1805–6 the Serbs went on the offensive and soon gained control of the whole of the pashalik , including the city of Belgrade . |
| 29 | It was a very good environment , working on the best and most creative advertising work that was being done in the mid ‘ 70's . |
| 30 | In neither respect , however , as recent work on the western and especially the German workforce in the pre-war period demonstrates , was the experience of the Russian working class unique . |