Example sentences of "on [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 2 | In anticipation of an army coup , Croatia and Slovenia had placed on alert the security forces under their control — the police and the newly formed gendarmerie , the so-called specijalci . |
| 3 | Gregory and others saw in certain happenings which took place at this time the workings of divine providence : on one occasion the boat carrying one of his opponents sank ; on another a supporter was miraculously freed from prison ; and throughout his trial the princess Rigunth fasted on his behalf . |
| 4 | On one wall was a big map of Vangmoor , on another a print of the only painting Constable had ever done of the moor , Loomlade church with Big Allen behind . |
| 5 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 6 | On another the conflict is sometimes portrayed as between older , established ways of handling pollution control and newer , more ‘ scientific ’ approaches in which environmental impact in its widest sense is the primary concern . |
| 7 | I often ask women to put on half a stone for the sake of their hair ’ |
| 8 | But these niggles pale when up against the infuriating fact that Drop Nineteens are n't given real room to perform , their potential smothered by a relentless stream of diving dickwits , sloshed on half a pint of coke . |
| 9 | Who 'll come across on half a pint of beer . |
| 10 | rhythm , stress you can go on , getting so detailed , that it , as St Steve said last week , you can spend sort of half an hour on half a sentence , if you put it , if you try to put in everything . |
| 11 | They did n't even like the editorial , which had been written by Packford on half a bottle of Scotch . |
| 12 | The charters of the kings of Kent reveal no trace of Aethelbald 's overlordship , though an Eadberht , king of Kent , consented to Aethelbald 's remission of tolls on half a ship ( probably in London ) for the abbess of Minster-in-Thanet in 748 ( CS 177 : S 91 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ All I know is he spun in from five thousand on half a wing . ’ |
| 14 | No wonder she puts on half a pound a week . |
| 15 | There was some people round here that were selling gear that were n't smack'eads and they 'd do you a lay on without any rings or surety or nothing and you 'd say , well , ‘ Lay us on half a gram and I 'll sell it , like ’ , and they 'd say , ‘ Alright ’ , and then you 'd go back a coupla days later and say , ‘ Look . |
| 16 | When it 's available I get by on half a gram a day . |
| 17 | With them , a P5 multiprocessor can be implemented on half a card . |
| 18 | For example , a district council in Sussex sought , when granting detailed planning permission on half a site at fourteen dwellings per acre , to maintain the average overall density at ten per acre . |
| 19 | Exactly who , or what , triggered this Titanic blast , or what exactly was going on half an hour before it went off , we are not told . |
| 20 | Now , thanks to the turbine and an automatic lighting system , the lights come on half an hour before a train arrives and go off half an hour after it leaves . |
| 21 | Bentley School was built 150 years ago on half an acre of land given by Bishop Sumner of Winchester but its history prior to 1882 is almost non-existent since the log books for the early years have long since been lost . |
| 22 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 23 | Do n't try and do any sums on it and think ooh I 'll square one and add it on half the other . |
| 24 | Well it was n't , it was n't that bad but like it was really weird because like you could see like , people like , especially the lads , just sort of looking at you and then like not meaning to be pervy but just like , looking again as if to think why has Emma got a , a extraordinary lump on half the top of her boob , you know ! |
| 25 | During 1976 , when the weather was warm and dry , record-breaking ozone levels were detected , reaching over 200 ppb and exceeding 60 ppb on half the summer days . |
| 26 | From the beginning to the end of the 1980s , take-home pay rose by 41.4% for those on 1½ times the national average , by 37% for those on the national average and by only 32% for those on half the average . |
| 27 | Nothing and no one was safe , least of all Mrs Browning , and as she reflected on this a sense of futility overwhelmed her . |
| 28 | On this the spokesman said , ‘ the Vulcan will no be flown any more ’ adding , ‘ it would be down to an acceptable purchaser to arrange for any ferrying . ’ |
| 29 | On this the evidence is conflicting , some studies finding that take-overs were value-creating , others that target shareholder gains were more that off-set by losses to the shareholders of the acquiring companies . |
| 30 | Put yourself in the position of a financial adviser , for the couple that you see , these are all theoretical couples obviously , theoretical individuals , and just jot down on this the sort t . |