Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hurd 's response to the debate on law and order , always a difficult test for Conservative Home Secretaries , was markedly well received and ended to a standing ovation . |
| 2 | Ramaphosa said that the killings were the government 's response to the launch on June 16 of an ANC mass action campaign designed to force majority rule . |
| 3 | Into his small cup he ladled a measure of fresh goat 's milk from a jug on the window-ledge . |
| 4 | A congressman 's support for the president on a particular issue may not represent a straightforward quid pro quo ; it could well be a mark of his gratitude for favours bestowed upon him in the past . |
| 5 | Such a course of action was rendered inconceivable by virtue of the Report 's reliance upon a discourse on art to legitimize the centrality to be accorded English within the curriculum . |
| 6 | She could see the kitchen through an opened door at the end of the hall and the two doors leading into Mrs Ridley 's part of the house on her right . |
| 7 | After thirty years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that began with Egypt 's nationalisation of the Canal on 26 July 1956 is of complete bewilderment and the sense of watching an unintelligible drama It was not surprise that Egypt had appropriated the Canal . |
| 8 | Accordingly , Lord Meston submits that the mother 's removal of the child on 3 July 1991 was quite plainly unlawful within the meaning of article 3 of the Convention . |
| 9 | We should respond favourably to Mr. Gorbachev 's proposals for a moratorium on testing . |
| 10 | Palmerston took the defeat as a vote of no confidence and tendered the Government 's resignation to the Queen on 21st February , 1858 , and she immediately asked Lord Derby to form the new Government . |
| 11 | On Gorbachev 's resignation from the post on Dec. 25 , the Soviet Defence Minister , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov became Commander-in-Chief . |
| 12 | Long Road 's opponents in the final on Sunday were defending champions Puma Welwyn , featuring the Hertfordshire club 's regular pairing of Joan Caplen and Mandy Bishop . |
| 13 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 14 | From here the Foinmen were hidden by the bulk of Ringer 's Foin with the rock on its top like a bell . |
| 15 | The Crystal Palace tram terminus was on a gradient and it was ruled that if the crew wanted to take their break there , in the busmen 's canteen round the corner on the Parade , they must go one at a time and not leave the car unattended . |
| 16 | There were also those who remembered Caledor 's words concerning the curse on the line of Aenarion , who thought it wise to remind others . |
| 17 | To complement the quotation from Winston Churchill 's reply to the debate on the then Coal Mines ( Eight Hours ) Bill that was given by the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , I should like to draw the House 's attention to other words of Winston Churchill in the same speech , which are as self-evidently true today as they were then : ’ We have reminded the hon. Gentleman of it often ; but why should cheapness of production always be achieved at the expense of the human factor ? |
| 18 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 19 | Hall reported the Committee 's recommendation to the House on 9th July . |
| 20 | The first , after 22 , saw Whitton dispatch Atkinson 's cut-back from the byline on the right . |
| 21 | The Finnish Ministry of Environment has rejected the WWF 's proposal for a ban on the building of holiday homes in the area . |
| 22 | ‘ However , ’ the Council said in its evidence to the House of Lords Committee examining the EC 's proposal for a Directive on nitrate in vulnerable waters , ‘ the nitrate pollution that occurs is caused by the application of chemical fertilisers and animal slurries , which contain a mixture of phosphate and nitrate . |
| 23 | And the success of the established record industry 's campaign for a royalty on blank tape could also contribute . |
| 24 | In the five years between then and mid-October 1992 , it has grown to 543 billion , having been given a significant fillip by sterling 's withdrawal from the ERM on 16 September 1992 . |
| 25 | The DP leader Sali Berisha announced his party 's withdrawal from the government on Dec. 4 , claiming that Bufi was " attempting to create a neo-dictatorship by destabilizing the country in the hope of discrediting democracy " . |
| 26 | Last weekend White publicly criticised Boaz 's work at a conference on locomotion in Berkeley , California , organised by the Institute of Human Origins . |
| 27 | Beautifully appropriate , the children 's window in the transept on the north side of the church , shows Christ holding a child in his arms , a lamb at his feet . |
| 28 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 29 | Lincolnshire has a lot of history of being a well managed authority , a proved exercising sound controls on its financial and management affairs , and I 'm pleased to say that I 'm again in a position to confirm that that is our view , for the conduct of the Council 's business in the period on which we are reporting . |
| 30 | Vee was one of the acts who took Holly 's place at a concert on the night he was killed , and a pop manager spotted him and signed him up . |