Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stewart added his voice to other MEPs in the region in stressing that Objective One was not an indication of failure nor poverty but an opportunity for Merseyside to build on the initiatives which were beginning to take shape . |
| 2 | The first meeting would concentrate on users ’ views , with an opportunity for CW to elaborate on the IT Review . |
| 3 | The confrontation became heated and a force of Gardai came on the scene . |
| 4 | I carefully pasted the photograph of Joe waving on the front , and inside , in his best handwriting , he wrote , ‘ Happy Father 's Day , Dad . |
| 5 | It is only a slight exaggeration to say that , at this extraordinary historical moment , the future of Poland depends on the Germans ; the future of Europe depends on each behaving a little more like the other . |
| 6 | THE FUTURE of Antarctica turns on the outcome of an international conference which Michel Rocard , the French Prime Minister , opened yesterday with a speech that set the tone for what will be a fiercely political debate . |
| 7 | Both the Brut and the Chronicle of London commented on the youth of those who attended , and Gloucester , Arundel , Devon , Warenne and Huntingdon excused themselves on grounds of age and infirmity . |
| 8 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 9 | It was a delicious quirk of fate that this situation should have arisen even as the legal action with Sting loomed on the near horizon . |
| 10 | Fergus Pyle of the Irish Times was at the station when the expected delegation from Liverpool arrived on the morning train . |
| 11 | The Gravity Mapping Programme in GRDC focused on the completion of regional gravity coverage in the mountainous western and swamp-covered eastern parts of southern Sumatra . |
| 12 | Also from Yale will be another new contribution to Renaissance studies , William Hood 's Fra Angelico at San Marco , discussing the ideals , daily rituals and pictorial traditions of the Dominican monastery in Florence based on an itinerary through San Marco sheds new light on the frescoes and panels . |
| 13 | A series of automatic weather stations linked to a satellite is to help researchers to assess the effect that deforestation in Brazil has on the climate . |
| 14 | Pepper v Hart centred on the amount of tax that classics master John Hart and a number of his colleagues should pay on their sons ' subsidised places at the school . |
| 15 | For instance a colleague of mine returning from a remote part of Kenya commented on the habit among pregnant women of eating a particular sort of yellowish mud . |
| 16 | The barony of Scrope devolved on the representative of his niece Mary but was not taken up ; the earldom of Sunderland became extinct . |
| 17 | Later productions , which returned to earlier themes , were to be gentler , as for example the almost sentimental etchings of the Prince of Wales dreaming on the eve of his wedding ( 24 January 1795 ; reproduced in Hill , 1966 ) . |
| 18 | The first product , to ship this September , is VRTXsa , which is a 100% emulation of VRTX built on the nanokernel to provide upward compatibility , and the new toolkit . |
| 19 | The election of Clinton came on the day when trade talks between Europe and the US broke down again . |
| 20 | Huxley , the exponent of laboratory physiology , won a great victory over Owen when he contrived to get a statue of Darwin placed on the main staircase of the Natural History Museum ; but justice has been done with the passage of time , and Owen 's statue is now in pride of place in his building . |
| 21 | The new Committee agreed to ask the University of Birmingham to comment on the application , visits were made to the College , and discussion of the proposals and their implications continued . |
| 22 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 23 | The night before the Lobby a service was held in Westminster Abbey and the Archbishop of Canterbury preached on the need to deal with the housing crisis as a ‘ moral crusade . ’ |
| 24 | The upper part of the village of Whittington lies on the south-east slope of a steep hillside . |
| 25 | We passed the village of Edku secure on a mound above the watery plains . |
| 26 | The village of Skelton lies on the east bank of the river Ouse , near Goole , and has a population of just over 100 people . |
| 27 | Luke , the writer of the gospel and the book of Acts , is at pains to expose prejudice , especially religious prejudice , and to show the difference the transforming work of Christ makes on the mind where issues of prejudice are at stake . |
| 28 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 29 | As mentioned there are few records to name the originators of many of the finest carvings of the 16th century , but approximately 400 years after Simon Werman left his name or initials on his work , 15 men and women of the village of Halse near Taunton decided on a unique and practical way of assisting with the restoration of the village church of St James . |
| 30 | Mr Warren was n't at his home in Tackley to comment on the report . |