Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fleming died from head injuries in Edinburgh 's Western General Hospital after an attack in Livingston on 25-26 February . |
| 2 | Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m. this week . |
| 3 | The report concluded that the Arrow Airlines DC-8 crashed soon after take-off from Gander because of an accumulation of ice on the wings . |
| 4 | Roy Lacey returns from holiday just in time to foil the advance of an army of weeds on his hour-a-week garden larder . |
| 5 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 6 | The decision came in the wake of an announcement by Bush on May 3 cancelling plans to modernize short-range Lance missiles and nuclear artillery in readiness for a " triple-zero " agreement with the Soviet Union to reduce or eliminate all short-range land-based nuclear missiles in Europe . |
| 7 | Rumours of Kozyrev 's imminent resignation had followed the publication of an interview in Izvestiya on June 30 , in which he warned of the possibility of a coup attempt , and accused the defence and security ministries of providing deliberately misleading reports from areas of ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | In its appeal AI also expressed dismay at reports that Iraqi Kurds who returned to Arbil in northern Iraq following a government announcement of an amnesty for Kurds on 5 April were arbitrarily arrested , summarily executed or subjected to forms of cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment . |
| 9 | In particular it welcomes the agreement … on the alignment of VAT [ value added tax ] rates and excise duties [ see below ] which opens the way to the completion of an area without frontiers on Jan. 1 , 1993 … |
| 10 | Who but Gibbons has been able to reproduce in wood the precise bloom of a ripening peach , the very texture and mass of a bursting apricot , or the exact weight and trajectory of an ear of corn on its stem ? |
| 11 | The study consisted of an analysis of data on retirement and early retirement from the ‘ After Redundancy ’ project conducted by lain Noble , John Westergaard , and Alan Walker and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 12 | It seemed , fleetingly , like an encampment of Bedouin on the edge of the desert . |
| 13 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 14 | The day concluded with an exchange of ideas on the ways in which branches and colleges could achieve better publicity , and thus increase the number of students even further in the coming years . |
| 15 | And I 've seen her , done up and looking her very grandest , reach into a small-feathered evening bag , take out an antique cigarette case with an M in brilliants on it and offer a surprised young queen a condom . |
| 16 | William and Mary Ann were there in all their glory , as we might expect : he with a spotted waistcoat and flamboyant flowery buttonhole , she with an expanse of fur on her head and around her shoulders . |
| 17 | Sadler then resumed ballooning with an ascent from Oxford on 7 July 1810 to celebrate the installation of Lord Grenville ( later first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos , q.v. ) as chancellor of the university . |
| 18 | This chapter begins with an account of events on Saturday , 25th May . |
| 19 | The lesson had been given in a lay-by near Kendal on a soaking wet afternoon in February with an audience of coach-trippers on day release from the Satanic Mills . |
| 20 | He marks this anniversary with an exhibition of works on paper by twenty gallery artists ( to 20 December ) including Sandra Blow , Jennifer Durrant , Sheila Girling , John McLean , Mali Morris and Jules Olitski . |
| 21 | His chance came with an offer of work on Children in Crossfire , a documentary about the psychological impact of terrorism and army occupation on the children of Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | The East Coast of America is dominated by the big cities : Boston , New York , Philadelphia , Baltimore , Washington all exert such a gravitational pull that the smaller towns are sucked into an orbit of dependency on the nearest city sun . |
| 23 | They did n't loosen and begin converging around the dead buffalo cow until the first flock of ragged black vultures flopped clumsily onto an outcrop of rock on the grassland fifty yards away . |
| 24 | If a bad decision on the law was made or the court or tribunal took a view of the evidence that no reasonable tribunal could take , which does not appear as an error of law on the face of the record , that is a matter for appeal rather than judicial review . |
| 25 | The obvious example is agriculture , usually employed as an illustration in chapters on perfect competition in introductory texts . |
| 26 | The conference was attended by the ruling National Party ( NP ) provincial chairman , in what was seen as a bid by the NP to secure Inkatha as an ally in negotiations on South Africa 's political future . |
| 27 | These ideas were taken up by the peace movement in the early-1980s as an alternative to reliance on nuclear weapons . |
| 28 | At about this time the wife of one of Leslie 's men , anticipating the ultimate verdict , sent me a highly elaborate printed card intended as an acknowledgment of condolence on the loss of her husband . |
| 29 | ‘ … as an in-patient in hospitals on several occasions myself I had had a more appetising variation of diet . |
| 30 | On Jan. 25 one of Théodore 's bodyguards was shot dead and Théodore himself was beaten during an attack by gunmen on the headquarters of the MRN in Port-au-Prince where Théodore was meeting parliamentarians . |