Example sentences of "on the [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The free weekly magazines sent to doctors financed by drug advertisements joined in with a vengeance on the lines that ‘ Fowler 's drug list ends prescribing freedom ’ .
2 Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema .
3 What one believes to have been the effects of the growth and elaboration of the hierarchy on the attitudes both of scholars towards their own role and of others towards scholars has been discussed at the beginning of the chapter , but one may , perhaps , in conclusion , briefly reinforce the point by quoting a remark attributed to the Grand Vezir Karamani Mehmed Pas a concerning Hocazade .
4 The team secretary , Paul Williams , said : ‘ We have had phenomenal numbers on the hills this winter and obviously the number up there is related to the number of accidents . ’
5 There were never enough to go around , especially on the house where I was , where there were two other girls on the works and four girls on the gardens all coming in filthy dirty and wanting a bath .
6 Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue .
7 When all the guttering is in place you can start on the downpipes These are generally fixed from the ground working upwards , but you must make sure that you are working to the right line if ( as is common ) the guttering is offset from the wall .
8 Briercrest is slowly dying … just a few old widows there now … not one living soul lives on the farms any more … all the old men are dead … but the old girls still have their little teas and their Ladies ' Aid meetings … have gardens and are happy as larks …
9 Shoelaces are difficult ; most five-year-olds manage to tie them , but it 'll take a long time if the only practice she gets is actually putting on the shoes each morning .
10 WIRRAL rail passengers are facing up to a Sunday on the buses this weekend .
11 The wind shifts mentioned so far are small and fairly frequent so hopefully you can tack on the headers all the time .
12 A lone sentry stood watching on the ramparts some way off .
13 However while the solemn task went on the contestants all local English wine makers had gathered outside in a more lighthearted mood .
14 So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week .
15 May I ask a question on the this er , the speaker said er erm that it will be down so that they on er er or no particular help on his accordance but o on these here , o on the ones this is n't the case .
16 On the continents some of this intra-plate volcanic activity is closely related to rift valleys which themselves represent sites of continental rifting where the crust has been stretched and faulted .
17 ’ People still come up to me on the streets all the time and ask the most personal kind of questions that you 've ever heard in your life , like , ’ How could you do such-and such on screen ? '
18 He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat .
19 There were fewer girls on the streets these days , she said , so the prices had risen .
20 Life has become increasingly dangerous for the officer on the streets these days .
21 Leo Abse commented on the effects this legislation had on kinship ties when he recorded the support given by people in South Wales to his efforts to reform the divorce law during the 1960s : ‘ Welshmen who had endured the depression had no time for the unctuous pleas for the need at all costs to maintain the unity of family life ’ .
22 And we take a long range view if you 're heading on the motorways this afternoon .
23 Well the quickest way of doing is that those officers who are remaining in office erm could be voted back into office and then we can have a vote on on the others those that are unopposed as it were .
24 But yesterday a friend who had been telephoning around Tories who are fighting marginal seats reported that on the doorsteps more voters were saying that , although they did not like the Tories , they liked Mr Kinnock even less .
25 First , has the state conferred special benefits on the corporators such as to justify a right of intervention of a kind that does not exist in regard to other business forms ?
26 They had been sitting on the sands all day .
27 I heard before my release that they were thinking of having screws on the houses all night .
28 1.6 " the Premises " means the part of the Site described in the Second Schedule together with such of the Works and the Tenant 's Works as may from time to time have been carried out on the Premises This describes the premises which are to be demised to the tenant and which will include the tenant 's works and possibly also the landlord 's works where alterations or refurbishment works have been carried out to the premises by the landlord .
29 9.13.3 the Tenant shall indemnify the Landlord against any damage occasioned to the Premises and any actions claims proceedings cost expenses and demands made against the Landlord caused by or related to the presence of the property in or on the Premises This provision has become rather popular of late and it is difficult to argue against its inclusion .
30 This statistic was used in conjunction with a bidimensional weighted index where [ a ] was taken as the point most distant from the vernacular , and scores assigned for variants on the dimensions both of height and backness .
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