Example sentences of "on [pron] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory , who had been teaching English in Thailand for two years , has said she was acting as a courier for Lock , on whom no drugs were found . |
| 2 | Luckily the ambassador had with him his master 's ring ; by the light of the diamond in it , he was able to see Roksanda , and he returned to tell Doushan that she was indeed a girl on whom the heavens might smile . |
| 3 | The most colourful is Anthony Scrivener QC , on whom the odds are suddenly shortening . |
| 4 | The royal ritual was closely associated with the history of Osiris , the divine prototype on whom the pharaohs modelled themselves by re-enacting his traditional deeds . |
| 5 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 6 | One of the most fascinating characters she researched was Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire , a beauty who married at 17 and on whom the tales of three-in-a-bed are centred . |
| 7 | So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war . |
| 8 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 9 | But Fahid is , like myself , someone on whom the attractions of the desert quickly pall . ’ |
| 10 | And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned . |
| 11 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 12 | Always hovering like a vulture around the vulnerable , pressing on them the drinks and fattening foods to make all his dreams come true . |
| 13 | The Seerucken hills rise at the back , and on them the forts of Neuberg ( 1270 , now a ruin ) and Liebenfels ( 1254 ) bear witness to wars and feuds now forgotten . |
| 14 | ‘ Pauper … rip off the clothes … starve them … whip the flesh … see on them the scars they 've given … ’ |
| 15 | The Interior Minister , Augustín Mantilla , was reported to have resigned on Feb. 7 , the day on which a police officer shot and wounded Henry Pease , the United Left Coalition ( UI ) candidate for the April 1990 presidential election . |
| 16 | But unless you spent a lot on flowers and balls for the children and on Mary 's birthday present , considering that you had our 15/ and some 5/ or more yes more of your own a month ago , on which no calls but fares need have been made , to which was added about 30/ ( or more ? ) lately , and from it all not 30/ was spent on the dress , you should have a sovereign left : add to this the wages of this month to come , and there should remain , after 35/ to the spectacle man , fully a sovereign , which , considering our needs for the future & also your promises , nay , certainties , at which I laughed , should go to the bank . |
| 17 | I myself thought that the matter was one on which no degrees of murder could be properly invented and was very loath to move the clause , but I was the Attorney-General at the time and it was my duty as Chief Law Officer to carry out the decision of the Cabinet . |
| 18 | Two commissions were set up to regulate the Danube , on which no warships were to be allowed below the Iron Gates . |
| 19 | The other obvious features are likely to be the platforms lying alongside the holloways , on which the farms and cottages formerly stood . |
| 20 | But , basically , disclosure still remains the principal safeguard on which the Companies Acts pin their faith , and every succeeding Act since 1862 has added to the extent of the publicity required , although , not unreasonably , it varies according to the type of company concerned . |
| 21 | According to the inductivist account of science , the secure basis on which the laws and theories that constitute science are built is made up of public observation statements rather than the private , subjective experiences of individual observers . |
| 22 | Louis moved down the Rhine by ship from Worms , Charles with his horsemen travelled overland across the Hunsrück ( " a difficult route " on which the benefits of hard training showed ) , to meet up at Koblenz on 18 March . |
| 23 | The premise on which the donors worked was that large amounts of capital could be absorbed by small African countries because their need for productive investment was demonstrably high . |
| 24 | The rector , as he had intended , found Dimity alone in the house , for he had observed Ella striding towards Lulling Woods , basket in hand , and had remembered that this was the day on which the eggs were collected . |
| 25 | Always provide the same kind of plant as that on which the eggs were laid . |
| 26 | If objectives are understood by all staff in a school , they will help to form a framework on which the activities can be based . |
| 27 | He picked at the assembly of hitches uselessly with fingers on which the nails were bitten , then pulled the last knot loose with his teeth . |
| 28 | The general consensus on this matter was left undisturbed until 1984 when Mr Theo Laurentius , an art dealer who specialises in Rembrandt prints , became convinced that the paper on which the etchings were printed did after all hold the key to their authenticity and thus to their value . |
| 29 | In this area was the altar of sacrifice on which the birds and animals were killed . |
| 30 | Some changes may be natural , such as those in the flow and direction of ocean currents , which can affect the distribution of the small pelagic fish or fish fry on which the birds depend . |