Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A pensioner died in hospital after being run over by a car on the poorly lit Corporation Road , Redcar , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 32 | Does the gaze fall on the impaired body or on social barriers ? |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Scottish kings were crowned on the sacred stone , and at their death were buried on the holy island of Iona . |
| 35 | The story is told of Guru Nanak that even as a boy he argued that the ancient Hindu ceremony of tying on the sacred thread did not prevent men from acting wrongly . |
| 36 | Then she saw that beneath her on the sacred site of Callanish all of the men and the eagles who had fought had disappeared . |
| 37 | OUT OF the throng of Tibetan pilgrims on the sacred Barkhor street in Lhasa a few weeks ago emerged six young women in maroon gowns and bare heads . |
| 38 | To the conventional , whether professional cooks or serious gourmets , this sort of thing was at best perverse and eccentric , at worst a blasphemous crime committed on the sacred body politic of la cuisine française . |
| 39 | In the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy there are statements such as : ‘ In the musical tradition of the Universal Church is contained a treasure of inestimable value . |
| 40 | We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain … |
| 41 | Bissell began to laugh again , his voice choking on the liquid plaster . |
| 42 | An interesting variation on the liquid ink-jet printer , is the ‘ Dry Ink ’ system based on the principle of spark erosion . |
| 43 | ‘ He 's proved that he is capable of scoring goals and although he can improve on the defensive side of his game his passing skills are a tremendous asset . ’ |
| 44 | Since then , larger-scale excavations have greatly extended our understanding of the town , focusing attention on the defensive sequence , on an area inside the northern defences in Kingshams Field , and on the suburbs along the Fosse Way and the Dorchester road , most of which are now fully published . |
| 45 | The local society later took the opportunity to build the new deaf centre on the bombed site . |
| 46 | Tobie had previously met Primaflora on rare occasions only — during the search for Tristâo and Diniz Vasquez on Rhodes ; on the ambushed ship that brought them from Rhodes , and in the King 's hall at Kiti immediately after . |
| 47 | Yesterday Lansink , 28 , relied on the eight-year-old stallion , Libero . |
| 48 | If the thought of a lengthy moorland return is unappealing , an alternative way to get to the best of the escarpment in a shorter time is to start from a parking area near a prominent standing stone on the unclassified road to Trecastle . |
| 49 | It was on the teetotal platform in September 1833 that ‘ Dicky ’ , as temperance reformers affectionately called him , won his modest place in British history . |
| 50 | Any marked change in processing has to be considered with care because the effect on the effluent-treatment process might be disastrous . |
| 51 | For this reason the guidelines here tend to err on the cautious side . |
| 52 | For this reason the guidelines here tend to err on the cautious side . |
| 53 | This was said to be ‘ erring wildly on the cautious side . ’ |
| 54 | When assessing your budget plans , it is as well to err on the cautious side as regards the additional income you will be likely to earn as — although this has been improving — many so called ‘ retirement jobs ’ are notoriously badly paid . |
| 55 | Others are dining , on the cautious assumption that a nine o'clock party might not provide adequate food . |
| 56 | The silicon ingots are highly perfect single crystals and on the atomic scale the cutting has to proceed through breaking bonds . |
| 57 | But it is certainly the object of quantum mechanical discourse and , for all the peculiarity of its collapse , its subtle essence may be the form that reality has to take on the atomic scale and below . |
| 58 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 59 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 60 | At a time ( 1944 ) when one 's acquaintances were casually saying ‘ I 'm off to the US to work on the atomic bomb ’ ( surely a gross breach of security ) I think Bernal was carefully insulated . |