Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humanistic hands These styles started in Italy in the fifteenth century and were based on the Carolingian minuscule . |
| 2 | In particular , Bede had a direct influence on the Carolingian renaissance of the ninth century through his pupil Egbert , who became Archbishop of York and trained Alcuin , who under Charlemagne founded the Frankish schools that did so much to stimulate learning on the Continent . |
| 3 | The growth of independent towns in the twelfth century lent force to the revival of public courts on the Carolingian model ; while Mediterranean contacts ensured a warm welcome for the learning of Bolognese Roman lawyers in the early decades of the century . |
| 4 | It provides a point of reference for those starting on the standard-setting road by identifying objectives for care bases on Henderson 's classification of the components of nursing . |
| 5 | Although Bazille has figured as a peripheral figure in several recent museum exhibitions on the Impressionist epoch and was the subject of a 1978 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago , he has never been judged as completely on his own as he is in the current show at the Brooklyn Museum , N.Y . |
| 6 | Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt . |
| 7 | It 's a piece of sound theatre designed to scare the shit out of his companion , waiting his turn on the front-room floor . |
| 8 | Knighted in 1946 , he continued to live in Oxford , to study in a room provided by his old college , and to write — in particular his volume on the Thirteenth Century in the Oxford History of England . |
| 9 | Your application form must reach him or her by noon on the thirteenth working day before polling day ( not counting Saturdays , Sundays , Christmas Even , Christmas Day , Maundy Thursday , Good Friday or a bank holiday ) . |
| 10 | Any application received by the registration officer after noon on the thirteenth working day before polling day will be disallowed unless it is a late application because of illness . |
| 11 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 12 | For twelve days her subconscious mind had ‘ seen ’ Sylvia calmly and confidently entering the cupboard under the stairs with no signs of panic ; so when , on the thirteenth day , she came to do it in reality there was still no need for anxiety to manifest itself . |
| 13 | In his home at Denbigh Terrace , Richard Branson flicked off the television , breathed deeply on the tangible aroma of excitement in the air and allowed a broad smile to crease his face . |
| 14 | With consolidation we are working on the tangible information that is available . |
| 15 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 16 | Since the days when he first settled at Yarrundi to farm sheep and cattle on the fertile Liverpool plains , Stephen Coxen had accumulated a substantial tract of land amounting to about 12,000 acres and about as many head of livestock . |
| 17 | O'er the tall Mountain on the fertile Mead : |
| 18 | Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands . |
| 19 | Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija . |
| 20 | But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region . |
| 21 | Today on the fertile plains of Central America cattle graze peacefully . |
| 22 | It is one of the world 's most unequal societies , with rich landowners on the fertile lowlands and illiterate Indians ( about half of the population , speaking 20 separate languages ) scraping a living in the Mayan highlands . |
| 23 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 24 | Since the long years of the Pax Mongolica ended many banners have fluttered over Kiev , almost impossible to defend in its position on the fertile flatlands east of the Carpathians . |
| 25 | This is because night vision relies mainly on the monochrome rods instead of the centrally placed colour-coded cones . |
| 26 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 27 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 28 | Flushed with the success of a comparatively trouble-free ascent of Great Slab/Bow-Shaped Slab combination I picked out a ‘ sheep ’ on the wolfish East Buttress — the classic VS climb Curving Crack . |
| 29 | This is an interestingly eclectic argument which recalls Gadamer on the ‘ fusion of horizons ’ ( the reader 's and the text 's ) , Marcuse on the utopian possibilities of high culture , and Sartre on the necessarily progressive implications of major literature . |
| 30 | However , too heavy an emphasis on the affective dimensions of care-giving can obscure the sheer physical and emotional labour involved ( as the current rhetoric of ‘ community care ’ indeed does ) . |