Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | With consolidation we are working on the tangible information that is available . |
| 10 | O'er the tall Mountain on the fertile Mead : |
| 11 | But with the accession of Sethos I ( probably the " new king " of 1:8 ) attention once again focusses on the fertile delta region . |
| 12 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A couple of blows rained on the crouching Time Lord . |
| 17 | on the riveted steel … |
| 18 | The Tynes , perched in their multitudes on the hand-carved cart that had lain cherished and unused in their garage . |
| 19 | None of these appear on the inexhaustive list published by Lars Gunnar Andersson and Peter Trudgill . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The sun flashed on the chromed speartip and on the fish . |
| 24 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the lefthand side was the shed where they kept the saddlery . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Her husband Karl , 63 , found her in half on the toolshed floor . |
| 30 | 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 . |