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

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1 We have n't got and English string style , whilst there is a specific German string style or a specific Belgian , a specific Russian , a specific French — we have n't got that and we have n't got the richness and fullness of the string sound of the Continental orchestras on the whole .
2 Privately Captain Simcox hoped the IRA would be a match for the Tans — well , perhaps that was expecting too much — but it would be something if they could put some manners on them and give them a bloody nose now and again .
3 She spoke as if she were admitting to a considerable lapse of manners on her part .
4 Don Caskie got a try and all the players a warning from coach keith richardson … he says they 'll have to improve and mind their manners on the field before the next big game against Bath in two weeks time
5 Yendle and Westwood also made important tackles on Webbe and Gareth Thomas respectively .
6 On Gordon Durie : ‘ I was n't surprised when he was substituted because he was already crying after one of my tackles on him . ’
7 Attack partner Iain Dowie battled through two tackles on the edge of the penalty box , before the ball broke kindly for Clarke to sweep his shot wide of visiting keeper Foto Strakosha .
8 Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars .
9 Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars .
10 Chinese painting and calligraphy are visual arts on much of an equal footing .
11 However , in spite of that , the range of decorative arts on display gives an insight into the intense creativity of Bohemian craftsmen and the workshops of Prague .
12 Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude .
13 The conference takes place at the Royal Society of Arts on 27 May .
14 Available from Electronic Arts on the Mega Drive in January .
15 Beck already has sites in Paris at the hotel des Arts on rue Berryer and in London in the south block mezzanine and lower ground floors of Somerset House overlooking the Thames embankment .
16 As the Royal Academy 's Pop Art exhibition approaches the end of its international circuit , closing at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on 24 January 1993 , an important new study , more tightly focused and including only work created in the United States , opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles , at the beginning of this month ( 6 December-7 March 1993 ) .
17 Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face with its Windows NT challenge .
18 Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face when it launches its Windows NT challenge .
19 The first dispersal , of furniture , silver , books and decorative arts on 25 January , primarily from the Beverly Hills estate , realised $2.97 million .
20 Arago fully disclosed the details of the Daguerreotype process at a joint session of the French Academies of the Sciences and the Fine Arts on 19 August 1839 .
21 It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science .
22 There is also a diagram of the joint degrees in the Faculty of Arts on page 61 .
23 Stags And Hens , produced by Charles Nowosielski , opens at the Arts on September 29 .
24 Free Speech 3 : No cause for panic over risks on site
25 The common instinct for survival has shown itself more powerful than the urge to take risks on behalf of national interest .
26 But given our track record there are risks on timing ’ he said .
27 Meanwhile , to the relief of the assembled celebs ( who no doubt speak on behalf of many Britons ) , irradiated food will have to be clearly labelled , giving the shopper at least a choice of taking any possible risks on board .
28 Banks play a major role in reducing and eliminating such risks on behalf of their customers .
29 Within the next two or three years , seven major studies , all aimed at reducing coronary risks on a massive scale , will have reported their findings .
30 Apart from this quibble , I do find that the whole performance has a slightly veiled and subdued quality about it , which may in part be attributable to microphone placement and the dull acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall , but may equally be the result of both orchestra and conductor being reluctant to take risks on such an auspicious occasion .
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