Example sentences of "on [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laguna will join GTA Le Mans ( right ) on Alpine 's production line if car gets go-ahead . |
| 2 | Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) . |
| 3 | As an alternative to a proactive search , acquisitive clients can be provided with a reactive search service , whereby their acquisition criteria are registered on MAS 's Buyreg database and then matched with sale opportunities brought to the attention of clients . |
| 4 | A person 's autonomous choices call for respect only as long as they do not seriously impinge on another 's enjoyment of his autonomy and that other has not agreed beforehand to give up certain of his choices as a condition of practising medicine in , for example , the National Health Service . |
| 5 | A candidate will be accused of canvassing for votes on another 's territory , or of fighting the election on his own behalf and without so much as a mention of his running-mates or even of his party . |
| 6 | You can not harvest a durian , but the first person to reach a fallen fruit , even on another 's land , may claim it . |
| 7 | She could not build her life on another 's pain , or on Havvie 's lies . |
| 8 | Proxy consent , decision making on another 's behalf , is well known to the law . |
| 9 | L's utterance in line 45 begins with a comment on the photograph in London English ( " that 's me " ) but after a pause she switches to Creole to comment on V 's photography : " Valerie cut me off there , boy ! " which she follows with a laugh . |
| 10 | He would be interested in your views on Gulbenkian 's influence , for good or ill , on social welfare in general , and on community development in particular . |
| 11 | The Baronne leaned forward , her eyes fixed piercingly on Sabine 's face . |
| 12 | The year 's operating profit of £xxx million was £xx million down on 1991 's result . |
| 13 | Oxford are also playing at Tranmere in the league next saturday … you can see highlights of the Swindon Town game on Central 's midweek sports special … and no Hereford fan should be missing from Edgar Street on Wednesday with Vinny Jones and the Crazy Gang in town … finally Swindon have put last season 's top scorer Craig Maskell up for sale … he wants first team football |
| 14 | Casting scorn on Stringy 's suggestion that they ask the mate 's advice on what to do with their almost embarrassingly rich discovery , the other three youths make feverish plans . |
| 15 | It is not impossible that on Cuthred 's death in 755 Aethelbald supported Cynewulf against Sigeberht in the ensuing struggle for the West Saxon kingship . |
| 16 | On X 's order and with Y 's tacit consent the defendants dispatched some of the barley to Kuwait . |
| 17 | Fire broke out on X 's land . |
| 18 | ‘ Coffee is it ? ’ asked the flying club barman as he observed the pensive expression on X 's face . |
| 19 | The decision to press ahead with new builds on a large scale was based on Provincial 's conviction that it could reduce its losses if given the freedom to operate cost-effective diesel-mechanical rolling stock , allowing shorter but more frequent trains , than having to take on InterCity 's weary cast-off locos and hauled stock . |
| 20 | Earlier Robson 's dramatic arrival — five months after his last competitive encounter — had an immediate effect on United 's performance . |
| 21 | The weekend talks stalled on United 's inability to agree the price for Knighton 's withdrawal from the take-over . |
| 22 | Gough could always write back to the Scottish League — as he is obliged to do this week in response to the management committee 's request for his views on United 's complaint over Ferguson — and point out that being forced to go to such lengths to contain his opponent proves he was correct to covet the forward for his team . |
| 23 | If confirmed by official figures , this will be an 80 per cent reduction on 1987 's figure , when carbon emissions from burning rain forest were said to be the third largest contributor to the greenhouse effect . |
| 24 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ On Trippy 's floor , just for a few days . ’ |
| 26 | He simply put the letters on Arty 's locker and turned away . |
| 27 | One of the tabloids got a couple of columns out of it — Teen Lovers ' Nude Death Ride on Dizzy 's Yacht but mostly the papers left it alone . |
| 28 | But the bull was kneeling on Merry 's overcoat ; and that saved him ! |
| 29 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 30 | This represented a 20 per cent decline on 1990 's destruction . |