Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the closed-circuit monitors , he saw the technicians taking their places at the instrument banks . |
| 32 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 33 | Recent issues of the journal Nature have featured new research on the sea-level rise which is likely to give us the biggest clues : the rise at the end of the last Ice Age . |
| 34 | Ruby 's forte was getting her own photograph in the newspapers as she ‘ arrived at the police station to advise officers working on the such-and-such case ’ ; she was a popular television chat show guest ; and she made a decent living from writing about psychometry . |
| 35 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |
| 36 | A couple of blows rained on the crouching Time Lord . |
| 37 | Bill Mishkin has an office on the 54th floor of the RCA building . |
| 38 | on the riveted steel … |
| 39 | The Tynes , perched in their multitudes on the hand-carved cart that had lain cherished and unused in their garage . |
| 40 | None of these appear on the inexhaustive list published by Lars Gunnar Andersson and Peter Trudgill . |
| 41 | Hyundai , meanwhile , is already partnering Metaflow Technology on the high-performance Thunder Sparc , formerly the abandoned LSI Logic development , Lightning , and has poached staff from Sun , IBM , MIPS , Pyramid Technology and Opus Systems to aid that effort . |
| 42 | It was widely expected that the formal ban on direct trade with the Soviet Union would be lifted in 1990 leaving only mainland China , Albania , Cuba and North Korea on the prohibited list . |
| 43 | A company might spend ten thousand pounds on a computer , but they would then spend sixty thousand pounds on the associated software to make it work . |
| 44 | The sun flashed on the chromed speartip and on the fish . |
| 45 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 46 | He tossed the first stone at the small wooden framed bedroom window on the lefthand side of the cottage , keeping a wary eye on the righthand window at the same time . |
| 47 | On the lefthand side was the shed where they kept the saddlery . |
| 48 | A graph ( Figure ) of the corresponding readings shows that the sensitivity is greatest in the middle of the view field , and less on the lefthand side than the right . |
| 49 | The morphology of these separate , disconformable crystal cements is , in many cases , dependent on the diagenetic environment and contained fluids in which they form ( e.g. Folk , 1974a ; Longman , 1980 ) , although growth kinetics ( Given & wilkinson , 1985 ) are also an important factor . |
| 50 | The images play on the deepest fears of the adventurers , and the man in the mask laughs again . |
| 51 | A great Himalayan climb draws on the deepest resources of body and mind . |
| 52 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 53 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |
| 54 | Jonathan put on the deepest voice he could manage . |
| 55 | Her husband Karl , 63 , found her in half on the toolshed floor . |
| 56 | The practical consequence of the range of laws we have described was that , by 1979 , the freedom to engage in peaceful protest in this country was traditionally dependent not on the law but rather on the benevolent exercise of discretion by those in power . |
| 57 | A pensioner died in hospital after being run over by a car on the poorly lit Corporation Road , Redcar , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 58 | Does the gaze fall on the impaired body or on social barriers ? |
| 59 | Work is being undertaken on the feeding behaviour of ungulates and how feed quality affects optimum body size , a topic of both ecological and agricultural importance . |
| 60 | If the lurcher catches a rabbit on the feeding grounds it will almost invariably scream — and this is the best thing to happen . |