Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year 's Uk finals of Yamaha 's global search for the hottest unsigned band of the year saw memorable performances from Manic Street Preachers , chapterhouse and Teenage Club , and put Nottingham 's Glory Boys on route to Tokyo for the worldwide finals . |
| 2 | Further problems may arise again on return to Britain as the pressure for places in the more popular independent or state schools makes it increasingly difficult for the expatriate to find suitable educational facilities for children . |
| 3 | The ‘ object ’ is a lump of granite , with a plaque above stating that it was brought down on ice from Westmorland during the Ice Age 300,000 years ago . |
| 4 | Welsh Tourism announced that it is to spend over £7.5 million on marketing in Britain over the next three years . |
| 5 | Storage of various liquid effluents on site at Sellafield since the early 1980s , pending the completion of new waste treatment plants designed to remove the most significant radioactivity , has been a contributory factor in reducing the level of discharges . |
| 6 | Prison officers will be on strike across Scotland for the first time in their history . |
| 7 | Numbers of workers on strike throughout Albania in the latter half of May were variously put at between 140,000 and 350,000 , out of a workforce of 700,000 . |
| 8 | On Oct. 25 the General Union of Algerian Workers ( UGTA ) signed an agreement with the government to raise the minimum monthly wage , but on Oct. 28 some 7,000 more workers went on strike in Jijel in the north of the country . |
| 9 | well Nigel Mansell might not be our only formula one champion this year … there was another Italian Grand Prix yesterday this one was on water in Milan for the powerboaters … |
| 10 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 11 | David Capel took three wickets to put Northants on top against Kent in the clash between the second and third placed championship teams . |
| 12 | Once in Siberia he realized that estimates made on paper in Moscow for the dispatch of 250 wagons a day to the Volga were completely unrealistic . |
| 13 | The ruler of Egypt Mohammed Ali intervened in the revolt on behalf of Turkey with the promise of territory in the area . |
| 14 | I strenuously reject the suggestion of the hon. Member for Gateshead , East ( Ms. Quin ) that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is not the best person to negotiate on behalf of Britain at the forthcoming summit . |
| 15 | The Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed on 20 December , 1967 , and ratified on behalf of Britain by the Wilson government on 11 December , 1969 . |
| 16 | He has been on nearly two dozen foreign trips on behalf of LA in the past few years and some of his questionable financial dealings have been investigated . |
| 17 | Its figures are complicated by the fact that every system sale made by SunExpress on behalf of SMCC in the US was counted by both it , and SMCC . |
| 18 | A statement issued on behalf of Rushdie by the Rushdie Defence Committee on July 22 expressed opposition to the ban . |
| 19 | The plaintiffs say that they accepted this loan on behalf of C.M.C. on the advice of the third defendant . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) The third defendant fraudulently altered in a number of material respects an application which had been signed on behalf of C.M.C. by the first plaintiff for a loan on the security of the bakery. ( 2 ) The third defendant concealed from the plaintiffs the true impact of arrangements made between C.M.C. and two companies which I will describe simply as Crescent and Highdene in which , unknown to the plaintiffs , the third defendant was personally interested . |
| 21 | The present steam engine rides which were on offer at Radstock on the Somerset and Avon Railway . |
| 22 | A chamber-pot is said to be on offer with Mozart on the outside and Salieri inside ; and in the bookshops , serious biographical and analytical works are well hidden under a catch-crop of sugary Mozart nostalgia . |
| 23 | Ornstein is rightly scathing about many of the spiritual nostrums on offer in America from the Marin County psychotherapists to ‘ pop yoga ’ . |
| 24 | Edinburgh car 35 of 1948 , one of the cars on loan to Blackpool for the Tramway Centenary celebrations 1985 , approaching the Pleasure Beach from Harrowside . |
| 25 | Marwood had a spell on loan at Middlesbrough towards the end of the season . |
| 26 | Teesside teenager Chris Readshaw , on loan from Middlesbrough for the rest of the season , will appear on his home track . |
| 27 | Ford , 20 , is technically on loan from Rotherham until the end of the season , but the Millmoor club are giving him a free transfer . |
| 28 | Professor Guy Donnay , Director of the Musée royal de Mariemont , examines some of the exhibits on loan from Belgium for the exhibition ‘ Book Arts : Art Books ’ . |
| 29 | The drama called ’ When I was a girl ’ focuses on life in Swindon in the fifties . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're on vacation in Hawaii at the moment . |