Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the lurcher catches a rabbit on the feeding grounds it will almost invariably scream — and this is the best thing to happen . |
| 2 | Not one of those books on healthy vaginas and wombs which Marigold might easily have looked into but a work on the nasty bacilli which may infest the human reproductive organs after a bungled or septic abortion . |
| 3 | As the number of patients who originally had had solitary stones was small , the difference does not reach statistical significance and this was also true when the analysis was based on the 26 patients who had recurrence diagnosed by oral cholecystectography or ultrasound , or both ( 14.5 ( 9.5 ) % for those who had had single stones and 46.4 ( 8.1 ) % for those with multiple stones : NS ) . |
| 4 | THE other day , as I was walking along the main street of a small town in Buckinghamshire , meditating , as so often , on time and chance , and in particular on the various chances which had combined to bring me there , I suddenly heard a loud crash , followed by urgent shouts and the desperate revving of a car . |
| 5 | During 1905 , work was commenced on the various lines which were to form the South Metropolitan system , starting first on the Selby Road ‘ Robin Hood ’ Penge High Street section , then the Mitcham Light Railways . |
| 6 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 7 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
| 8 | From then on they met separately in wine bars , reporting back intermittently on the drunken evenings they had had . |
| 9 | Our conversation moved cautiously round the subject of corruption in public life , and I quoted Burke , whose Thoughts on the Present Discontents I had been studying , to the effect that wisdom consisted in part in deciding how much evil to tolerate . |
| 10 | It would be very suitable for horses , even more so than on the present roads there 's there 's there 's a better grip . |
| 11 | The new Whig government of 1832 instituted a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws whose agents pieced together the first really comprehensive picture of the situation and a single answer to it . |
| 12 | Mum 's anger and frustration was based , not entirely on the fact of the girl being a Gentile , but on the great expectations she had anticipated for the boy . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't see how we can stop them , ’ said Floy , his eyes on the circling Tree Spirits and on the four Oaks who were now hauling on their claw-like roots , dragging Balor 's limbs outwards away from his body . |
| 14 | It is sadly not practicable to feature all the 200 plus entries to the competition so we have concentrated on the four teams who received gold awards in the finals . |
| 15 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
| 16 | But the basic essence of the strategy focuses on the small firms which underpins the local economy . |
| 17 | To advise the Secretary of State on the practical considerations which should govern all assessment including testing of attainment at age ( approximately ) 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 within a national curriculum , including the marking scale or scales and kinds of assessment including testing to be used , the need to differentiate so that the assessment can promote learning across a range of abilities , the relative roles of informative and of diagnostic assessment , the uses to which the results of assessment should be put , the moderation requirements needed to secure credibility of assessments , and the publication and other services needed to support the system — with a view to securing assessment and testing arrangements which are simple to administer , understandable by all in and outside the education service , cost effective and supportive of learning in schools . |
| 18 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 19 | THE Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust is to hold its first public meeting on Thursday , June 24 at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre , Postgraduate Centre , Bronglais General Hospital , Aberystwyth , giving the public an opportunity to be kept informed on the key issues which the Trust is currently facing and to hear of proposed new developments in the pipeline . |
| 20 | They kept the money at their council house in Chard , but took it with them on the rare occasions they went out . |
| 21 | So on the rare occasions they did report themselves in a State of Readiness they knew an Agile Blade was likely . |
| 22 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 23 | Hemel 's Darin Schubring , who caused a two-hour delay in last week 's first leg when he demolished the backboard , looked less dangerous on the rare occasions he had the ball . |
| 24 | She discovered that Ella had a sister at Staines , and on the rare occasions she visited her she went on the railway . |
| 25 | At least when you 're knitting on the bigger gauges you have fewer rows to knit than on a fine or standard gauge . |
| 26 | But on the bigger issues it failed . |
| 27 | He made no comment on Lesley 's invitation and Charlotte 's acceptance of it , none on the curious complexities which had confounded their own relationship since they left ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ two hours and more ago . |
| 28 | This is because they are built to withstandconstant crashes on the high-speed ovals which host five of the 17 rounds of the 1993 Championship series . |
| 29 | With David Sole and Sean Lineen joining that renowned loose forward trio , John Jeffrey , Derek White and Finlay Calder , in retirement , Scotland will lean heavily this season on the experienced players who remain and , perhaps most of all , upon Gavin Hastings , still only 30 , who has played in 41 cap internationals as well as in three tests for the British Lions . |
| 30 | Second , again the suspicion must creep back that the exclusive concentration on the individual blinds one to the real business of government , which is to co-ordinate and control large populations . |