Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] of [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The rest of the band we got through friends of friends on the Glasgow scene , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Not all early raids were successful and the plan to raid Bayonne failed through lack of information on beach conditions . |
| 3 | Besides the main screen in the entrance foyer other details such as decorative keystones based upon characters in Greek mythology have been placed between bank of lift on each floor . |
| 4 | SIEMENS NIXDORF MOBILISES UNIBOL , SINIX FOR DECLARATION OF WAR ON IBM IN ITS AS/400 HEARTLAND |
| 5 | SNI MOBILISES UNIBOL , SINIX FOR DECLARATION OF WAR ON IBM IN ITS AS/400 HEARTLAND |
| 6 | defendant in belief that it was necessary to enter an appearance before a payment into court could be made was not estopped when he sought to have the case dismissed for want of prosecution on discovering that the writ had not9 been served . |
| 7 | Le Monde of Sept. 29 quoted Djohar as alleging that Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim , whom he had dismissed as head of government on July 4 [ see p. 38996 ; for his appointment in January 1992 see pp. 38706-07 ] , was behind the Sept. 26 coup attempt . |
| 8 | A critic of that decision , Mohammad Yunus Saleem , was dismissed as Governor of Bihar on Feb. 13 . |
| 9 | By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches . |
| 10 | Commercial netting blamed for lack of cod on the Holderness coast . |
| 11 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 12 | If you have too many pumpkin seeds they are delicious in stews or roasted on top of cheese on toast . |
| 13 | In the second year , the state is approached by means of units on comparative government which analyse the institutions and practices of the major powers in the contemporary developed world , and thematic units examining the relationship of war and nationalism respectively to the emergence of the modern state . |
| 14 | Where a member of staff was previously satisfied with work practice in a section , he or she may become a discontented or frustrated worker , because expectations were increased , together with knowledge and skill , only to be stifled by lack of interest on return to work . |
| 15 | Rev. George Carey , 55 , hitherto Bishop of Bath and Wells , was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury on April 19 in succession to the Rt . |
| 16 | Some mornings we galloped over the open plain below the Legation ; at that hour the tracks were threaded with groups of villagers on their way to market in Addis Ababa . |
| 17 | However , the party 's newly elected deputies decided in favour of negotiations on the formation of a " grand coalition " , and these were opened on March 28 . |
| 18 | Different cord clamping practices at vaginal delivery and at caesarean section still need to be evaluated in terms of effect on blood and red cell volumes and on physiological adaptations to extrauterine life in preterm infants . |
| 19 | CATHERINE AT HOME IN HER KITCHEN , COOKING , LISTENING TO BRAIN OF BRITAIN ON THE RADIO |
| 20 | The idea of the pope exercising the vicariate of Christ had been expressed by Pope Adrian IV some forty years before : " we who , although unworthy , act on behalf of Christ on earth " . |
| 21 | Government forces had arrested 734 " bandits " operating in the Gojjam area of north-western Ethiopia and a further 112 in the Wollo area in the north , according to Voice of Ethiopia on Nov. 14 . |
| 22 | Iodophors : are disinfectants prepared by action of iodine on non-ionic detergents . |
| 23 | erm , I ca n't read it too well cos I 've only had about couple of lessons on it . |
| 24 | The South African Law Commission would be asked to report on the protection of the rights of citizens , " as well as all collective units , associations , minorities and nations " , in a future constitution , by examining a variety of constitutional models ; this investigation would be used in support of negotiations on a new constitution [ see below ; see also p. 36915 for recommendations of Law Commission working paper of March 1989 ] . |
| 25 | If used with care , it is to be preferred to sulphate of ammonia on heavy soils . |
| 26 | That being the emphatic view of their Lordships , it would , we think , be quite wrong in effect to re-import into the offence the necessity of proving what amounts to absence of consent on the part of the owner by saying that the word ‘ appropriates ’ necessarily means some action contrary to the authority or interests of the owner and that that is one of the requirements which the prosecution must prove . |
| 27 | Some Christians have called for representation of workers on the board of directors , joint decision-making at all levels within the company , the break-up of oligopolies , a restriction on the number of directorships any one person can hold ( the suggested number is three ) and restrictions on the directors of financial corporations holding directorships in non-financial corporations , and vice versa . |
| 28 | Applications are invited from members of staff on any of these grades with at least six months experience within the company who do not currently have a representative within their area . |
| 29 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 30 | It does not depend upon proof of neglect on the part of the innkeeper . |