Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 2 | So I 'm on the defensive so he 's you know he 's |
| 3 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 4 | Rarely on the defensive when questioned about his charges — unlike so many of his tight-lipped contemporaries — his attacking policy has reaped a particularly golden harvest overseas . |
| 5 | She was doubly on the defensive as his gaze flicked over her , taking in the pale lemon dress she was wearing , its scooped neckline , she suddenly realised , revealing the deepening suntan on her shoulders and the curve of her breasts . |
| 6 | Petain resolved to stay on the defensive until American troops arrived and tanks were available in great number . |
| 7 | I was on the defensive and wore my makeup as a barrier . |
| 8 | There was one long controversy , however , in which Tyndale was on the defensive and in which his language , though strong , was considerably less rude than that of his opponent . |
| 9 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 10 | This approach means the company is not on the defensive and , thus , at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | The Republicans forced Truman on the defensive and their greatest victory over the President was the Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act ( 1947 ) passed over Truman 's veto . |
| 12 | This immediately puts the farmer on the defensive and reinforces the public 's perception of them as a complaining , dissatisfied group . |
| 13 | This identification put Giraud and his American backers on the defensive and ultimately proved to be de Gaulle 's trump card . |
| 14 | well not exactly g gon na be on the defensive because it 's , I do n't , it 's , it 's , it 's no less , it 's no less genuine , you know it 's , it 's part , it 's , it 's , it 's a view that they can express in different circumstances , |
| 15 | Thus post-Second World War art is as it is — — with an ‘ emphasis on the autonomous and abstract work of art ’ ( p. 154 ) — allegedly because of the ‘ effects ’ of the stabilisation and extension of capitalism . |
| 16 | The arrow formation soon broke up into a ragged line , with Premiere on the outside , pampering on the inner and Upper Gumtree still just in front . |
| 17 | This can help to give both roll and direction information , particularly if the fins are painted different colours on the inner and outer faces . |
| 18 | Spacing of the bricks is marked on to the former on the inner and outer circumference , always starting form the centre brick so that it 's exactly symmetrical . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And this th th this three surgeons go out from here and they do all their research on the various and they operate from eight o'clock at night to eight in the morning , non-stop , using three theatres , each doing a forty five minutes one , and then another one takes |
| 21 | Lee ( 1985 ) argues from US data that many elderly people prefer independent living , but previously had to depend on the financial and other support of their children . |
| 22 | However , the Library also took on deposit from Messrs Strathern and Blair , WS , a batch of business papers of James Ballantyne and Co. , 1824–33 , largely on the financial and literary affairs of Scott . |
| 23 | For too long we have regarded the pound as sacrosanct , but who wants to be paid in funny money that is for ever being debased by inflation and buffeted on the financial and foreign exchange markets ? |
| 24 | Now it 's on the financial and administrative side that I suspect that the Home Office is concerned about and I believe they 've gone the wrong way about it . |
| 25 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 26 | In accordance with the Protective Clause in the Act the traction posts within Croydon had bases , scroll work and finials like those used by the Corporation , with the coat of arms on the former and were mainly of bracket construction . |
| 27 | The SEA focuses on the former and has made two contributions . |
| 28 | IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But he does , on the middle-class and moral grounds to be described in chapter , condemn the ostentation of Gatherum Castle belonging to the Duke of Omnium , and favour the older , humbler Matching with its adjacent priory , where the Duke 's heir , Plantagenet Palliser , lives . |