Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] on [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says Microsoft will likely be driven to support an optional Unix SVR4 personality on top of the NT kernel by 1995 or 1996 and that such a creature will be brought to life by a third party , nominating the Santa Cruz Operation Inc for the role . |
| 2 | The two friends left Durban in Mr Cronje 's truck on Friday for the Maputaland Marine Reserve 120 miles away . |
| 3 | Proposed children 's hospice on land at the Amelia Trust farm , Whitton Rosser , Five Mile Lane , Lancarfan . |
| 4 | George brought up Edwina Currie 's underwear on behalf of the Observer . |
| 5 | In keeping with Sandie Macleod 's fighting on behalf of the clans , the Laird himself , although straitened by low incomes from his estates , had never racked his rents and as a consequence , says Boswell , ‘ so far is he from distressing his people , that , in the present rage for emigration , not a man has left his estate . ’ |
| 6 | It was a kind intelligent eye too , though he could twist a rabbit 's neck on occasion with the nonchalance of a professional poacher . |
| 7 | EFTA 's 1990/91 budget was set at just over 29,000,000 Swiss francs ( approximately US$23,000,000 ) , with a supplementary budget of SFr3-4,000,000 in view of the secretariat 's workload on negotiations with the EC . |
| 8 | Humphrey 's research on workers in the Brazilian motor industry in the 1970s shows that , in this particular case , a group of relatively highly paid workers in a modern sector of the economy did not behave as a labour aristocracy , but took on a vanguard role in providing political leadership for the working class as a whole ( Humphrey 1982 ) . |
| 9 | I enjoyed Brian Redhead 's piece on worms in the March edition immensely . |
| 10 | Senator Warren Barry called Mr Clinton 's plan on gays in the military a ‘ fags in the foxhole ’ proposal , and the chairman of the Fairfax County Republicans , Patrick Mullins , said it gave new meaning to the military warning ‘ watch your rear flank , ’ according to the Post . |
| 11 | A call for a year 's freeze on settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ( with the exception of Jerusalem and the Jordan valley ) was adopted as part of the party 's platform , as was a commitment to a repeal of laws outlawing " contacts with terrorist organizations [ which included the Palestine Liberation Organization-PLO ] " . |
| 12 | One of his main contributions has been the extension of last year 's freeze on rises in the uniform business rate , which at £370 million represents a large part of the £1 billion boost for industry . |
| 13 | In the present chapter , a brief account of the historical background to contemporary consumption will be followed by a resumé of some of the approaches to this issue found in various disciplines , one of which , the tradition stemming from Veblen 's work on goods as the expression of social differentiation , will be discussed in more detail . |
| 14 | THAT violinist extraordinary , Leonard Friedman , gave the third of his current recital series Friedman and Friends at the Queen 's Hall on Wednesday with the pianist Peter Evans . |
| 15 | Britain also sought American help in dealing with the unilateral declaration of independence by the whites of Southern Rhodesia in 1965 in the face of the Wilson government 's insistence on safeguards for the rest of the population . |
| 16 | If anything is demonstrated by the USSR 's record on energy over the past decade it is that the resources , the equipment , manpower and the money do exist broadly to achieve whatever the mighty planning and executive mechanism dictates . |
| 17 | The printed version of Cheryl Law 's article on Slovenia in the August/September issue of AMNESTY contained some regrettable errors : Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia , not a mountainous region in Slovenia ; the Ljubljana Amnesty Group received support , but not financial support , from the IS , to hold its seminar ; and ‘ Herhard Mensink ’ is spelled Gerhard Mensink . |
| 18 | I doubt I am alone in responding to Hamish Brown 's article on Munros in the December issue , where again he adopts his posture of lordly authority and treats us to a display of elitism , self-righteousness , self-congratulation and contradictions . |
| 19 | GERALD BRODRIBB 'S article on wicketkeeper-bowlers in the February issue and Jack Burrell 's interesting letter on the same subject in March reminds one that another wicketkeeper able to turn over a respectable arm was Warwickshire 's Geoff Humpage , whose most unusual bowling feat occurred in the Warwickshire v Gloucestershire match at Edgbaston in 1980 . |
| 20 | The Authority 's lead on matters concerning the character , range and balance of the primary curriculum as a whole , therefore , was inadequate . |
| 21 | This again relates to Lyotard 's focus on perception in the unconscious , which derives from the influence of Merleau-Ponty 's phenomenology of perception on his work . |
| 22 | On Jan. 8 , United Kingdom aid agencies grouped in the Disaster Emergency Committee launched a " Crisis in Africa " appeal , raising record donations , despite fears of " donor fatigue " and the effect of the media 's focus on events in the Gulf . |
| 23 | If we consider how intonation may be studied in relation to discourse , we can identify two main areas : one of them is the use of intonation to focus the listener 's attention on aspects of the message that are most important , and the other is concerned with the regulation of conversational behaviour . |
| 24 | Modrow 's request on behalf of the round table talks for a " solidarity contribution " of up to DM15,000 million was unanswered . |
| 25 | THEATRE / More than their jobs are worth : Peter Kemp on Roger Hall 's Roll On Friday at the Palace , Watford |
| 26 | — ( U.B. Bishop 's statement on Peace in the Nuclear Age ) . |
| 27 | The Minister 's announcement — which again I welcome without qualification — comes six years after the Audit Commission 's report on care in the community , which in paragraph 28 highlighted the fact that then , six years ago , there were 37,000 fewer mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients than there were 10 years ago but that nobody knew where those who had been discharged were because nobody had done anything to find out what had happened to them . |
| 28 | They included the Young Conservatives Ball , Tim Janman 's Conservative Political Centre lecture entitled ‘ Some of my best friends … ‘ , and Andrew Neil 's party on behalf of The Sunday Times . |
| 29 | Monmouthshire Law Society advocated that evidence of payment of mortgage monies from the purchaser's/lender 's solicitor should be available in relation to new advances , or from the seller 's solicitor on redemption of the charges . |
| 30 | Because of Nona 's death on top of the other thing . ’ |