Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki concluded on 17 April included Japanese possession of Formosa , the Pescadores Islands and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria , the opening by China of four more treaty ports and the payment to Japan of a sizeable indemnity . |
| 2 | The inhabitants of Antwerp surrendered on 10 October . |
| 3 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 4 | On April 10 , 1990 , the Regional Council of Guadeloupe rejected on environmental grounds proposals from the Black Diamond petroleum company to build in Guadeloupe a refinery capable of processing 15,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) . |
| 5 | On Jan. 22 , however , a group of exiled Saudi ulema based in the Iranian city of Qom called on all countries in the region to " rise up " and " uproot the USA " . |
| 6 | Although the evidence for Desiderius 's activity as bishop is unequalled , it is possible to make some comparison with other Merovingian bishops ; Nicetius of Dax had been comes before he became bishop ; Sidonius of Mainz and Felix of Nantes embarked on significant building programmes . |
| 7 | The 21-nation Council of Europe called on 26 April for a thorough examination of waste transport rules , and plans a special meeting on the subject next January . |
| 8 | A landmark in the history of Drummonds occurred on 12 January 1924 when it was bought by the Royal Bank for £958,400 . |
| 9 | The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh sat on one side , Commander Laurence 's relatives on the other . |
| 10 | The left-wing stronghold of Badajoz fell on 14 August and Talavera , the last significant town before Madrid , on 2 September . |
| 11 | The Hugh Bell School in Middlesbrough opened on 7th January 1895 with 7 scholars as a deaf class in a cold , cramped room near the magistrates ' courts — who were wont to complain frequently about the noise from the alleyway between the classroom and the courts where the children played . |
| 12 | Outside Parliament in the early 1980s , she was a prominent member of the hard Left , and at a Tribune rally in Brighton rounded on fellow Left-wingers , including Neil Kinnock , who had not voted for Tony Benn in the deputy leadership contest against Denis Healey . |
| 13 | However , attempts to push through a programme for the privatization of the banking sector in January foundered on legal difficulties , while on Feb. 19 police in Karachi clashed with union activists protesting against the government 's plans to sell off state-owned industries . |
| 14 | Astra from Letchworth advised on instructional techniques . |
| 15 | He already had all the Knights Templar in France arrested on trumped-up charges of immorality : now he wanted conciliar approval . |
| 16 | By 1911 , there were about 1,000 women and girls in Edinburgh employed on unskilled work in the printing trade , another 1,219 in bookbinding and over 800 in envelope and paper-bag manufacture ( see Table 6a ) .9 This development was not unusual . |
| 17 | The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report . |
| 18 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |
| 19 | THE IRANIAN Embassy 's Public Relations Department in London replied on 4 March to members who wrote supporting the immediate and unconditional release of Mohammadreza Nezameddin , the 74-year old retired civil servant serving a three year sentence for criticising President Hashemi Rafsanjani . |
| 20 | The operation to return 425 tonnes of toxic waste from Romania to Germany began on 9 March with the arrival of two trains equipped with special containers . |
| 21 | Thus in February 1977 the opposition to Raybestos developed on two fronts : in Ovens against the factory , in Ringaskiddy against the dump . |
| 22 | cars to Mitcham commenced on 4 November 1926 . |
| 23 | The Lancashire branch to Rawtenstall closed on 4 December 1980 , with the Wallingford branch from Cholsey following on 31 May 1981 . |
| 24 | On April 27th Euro Disney , which runs a big amusement park outside Paris modeled on American ones owned by its parent firm , Walt Disney , announced its results for the six months to the end of March 1993 . |
| 25 | Passenger services to Leith started on 1 August 1879 from Lothian Road and calling at Murrayfield , Craigleith , Granton Road and Newhaven . |
| 26 | When the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Indochina met on 23 November 1946 and heard d'Argenlieu 's report it resulted in what Devillers affirms was obviously the government 's decision to face up to every infringement of the Franco — Vietminh agreement , if necessary by force . |
| 27 | The accident at the graphite moderated , light-water-cooled pressure tube reactor at Chernobyl occurred on 26 April 1986 when an explosion produced an uncontrollable fire which lasted several days and led to vast quantities of radionuclides being lifted high into the atmosphere . |
| 28 | Zaidie and Matadial were the most important Crown witnesses to the facts , or alleged facts , which preceded and followed the shooting and the statements were one made by Zaidie to the police on 12 January 1987 , the day after the shooting , one by Matadial on the same day and an addendum by Matadial made on 9 May 1987 . |