Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same there is a strong argument that low investment in the British economy is not just a matter of funds being unavailable ; there is a reluctance to borrow for investment purposes on the part of many enterprises . |
| 2 | The raid however took only ten minutes and the thieves escaped undetected after sawing through iron bars on a basement window to enter , removing the eight works and fleeing in time to avoid the police cordon flung round the city . |
| 3 | Most instruction is given during school hours on a rota system so that the same class is not missed every week . |
| 4 | While unable to comment about launch details on the eve of reporting its financial results , Forte says the marketing campaign will include national advertising through to direct mail to ‘ present selections of hotels from the collection to segmented groups in the leisure and business markets ’ . |
| 5 | AN UNEASY truce was holding yesterday after fights erupted between cockle pickers on a West Wales beach . |
| 6 | At least one company does specialise in aviation communications on the PC and that is Hart Technology ( 020622 3185 , fax 020622 5328 ) . |
| 7 | Mr Vaclav Havel , the Czechoslovak opposition leader , and the still ruling Communist Party were immersed in crisis talks on the shape of a new coalition government as the prospect of Mr Havel becoming the next president appeared to strengthen . |
| 8 | MR VACLAV Havel , the Czechoslovak opposition leader , and the still ruling Communist Party were immersed in crisis talks on the shape of a new coalition government late last night as the prospect of Mr Havel becoming the next president appeared to strengthen . |
| 9 | Tutors may wish to explore the fact that in many cases these are not included in business accounts on the basis of materiality and cost/benefit of keeping track of them . |
| 10 | I ate in 1929 , the fleet name ‘ SouthmeT ’ began to appear in gold letters on the waist panel . |
| 11 | Great idea , wish them great success , but are they going to provide on site facilities on a stadia format . |
| 12 | The queen sheds her wings on entering the internode and seals the entrance , but coccids , attracted by food bodies on the leaves , are cultured within . |
| 13 | Leaders of Britain 's freight industry are calling on the European Commission to help free U K truck drivers trapped by road blocks on the French Spanish border . |
| 14 | He felt tempted to find out by inventing a number of startling discoveries made through lab tests on the chair . |
| 15 | As a result , geophysical surveys have been made of saltern mounds on the Lincolnshire coast , terrace gravels near the Trent containing evidence of Roman settlement , and a deserted medieval village under threat from road improvements in Leicestershire . |
| 16 | Residents claim that their homes were already being ‘ shaken to bits ’ by the amount of heavy traffic connected with Park Foods on the existing industrial complex . |
| 17 | She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots . |
| 18 | In a meeting on April 24 , Li Peng and Gorbachev noted that progress was being made in troop reductions on the border , and on the settlement of border issues . |
| 19 | The two girls swam until they were tired , then lazed on beach towels on the grass under the palm trees . |
| 20 | I could examine what I wanted to examine , pick it up , smell it , read the books , flip over the cards , listen to gramophone records on a wind-up machine with a huge convolvulus-shaped horn . |
| 21 | He seemed to assume that she was as interested in these questions as he was , and she began to read newspapers thoroughly and listen to news broadcasts on the wireless . |
| 22 | The explanation put forward for this relationship is that where the coverage of collective agreements is extensive , as in centralised-bargaining structures , trade union membership is thereby encouraged since the benefits of agreements are seen to accrue to union members on a wide scale . |
| 23 | IT WAS a bitterly cold February day and the crowds were swarming over security barriers on the desolate streets of Harlem . |
| 24 | When local expenditure was greatly curtailed by Government restrictions on the raising of revenue ( rate-capping ) many authorities sought ways of raising money by other means . |
| 25 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 26 | But for all that the words are still coming out from under my fist , upward strokes and downward strokes proliferating like twig insects on the sheets of foolscap paper . |
| 27 | Parades of shabby shops , gathered like mongrel dogs on a street corner , were parted by a grim council estate , and then reassembled . |
| 28 | Others , such as Eric Bremner , a 28-year-old physics teacher , had only decided to apply for water shares on the spur of the moment . |
| 29 | Beware of backlight problems on an upward tilt . |
| 30 | Art dealers have often dreamed of marketing artists on the scale that the music industry markets rock stars , and the Basquiat show will test whether that artist 's celebrity from the early 1980s can attract a generation of museumgoers who were n't even teenagers then . |