Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another three Timorese went on trial on March 17 accused of " general crimes " . |
| 32 | In the winter most Little Grebes occur on sheltered waters at the coast , although they are rare on the open sea . |
| 33 | Shackleton , Ries , and Coward ( 1982 ) made estimates of the depth of the main Variscan decollement in southwestern England based on cleavage attitudes and shortening , and concluded that a thin-skinned model was appropriate and that the granites are rootless . |
| 34 | OUTGUNNED Muslim forces fought off Serb and Croat attacks on two fronts yesterday as Bosnian Serbs voted on an international peace plan they seem certain to reject . |
| 35 | As a footnote , when Jack Wannan was posted to Coningsby in 1953 to join 57 Squadron which had re-equipped with Canberras , where were only about three Washingtons left on the Station . |
| 36 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
| 37 | Yeah , she sle , little Zoe sat on her lap and just slept like a log , she was obviously tired . |
| 38 | On 5 November 1946 Pethick-Lawrence commented on their ‘ political immaturity ’ , and again on 9 December he told the Cabinet that : ‘ We are dealing with a body politically immature , singularly lacking in experience of the outside world , and with no appreciation of the weakness of Burma or of the difficulties … she is likely to face . ’ |
| 39 | The central committee of the Croatian LC met on Nov. 22 , 1989 , to discuss the LCY programme document [ see above ] . |
| 40 | Despite the ministrations of the Mine Surgeon poor Sarah died on the 13 June , and after this date none of the Duke girls appear to have worked on the mine again . |
| 41 | Why was he ( and it must have been him ) so quick in sending off horsemen early on the morning of 19th March to check on the King 's safety ? |
| 42 | Charlie Francis said at the Canadian Enquiry that all the world 's top athletes were on drugs — that was his excuse for encouraging Ben to go on steroids . |
| 43 | Three marches starting in Leicester , Stevenage , and Cambridge on Good Friday converged on Molesworth on Easter Sunday . |
| 44 | When the Great Hural opened on March 21 , Batmönh and Sodnom resigned . |
| 45 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 June 1992 W. appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the High Court had no jurisdiction , or alternatively no jurisdiction should be exercised , to overrule the refusal of a competent minor aged 16 to undergo medical treatment ; ( 2 ) section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 should have been applied ; ( 3 ) the judge had erred in applying observations of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 which were erroneous ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly found that in respect of the Children Act 1989 the minor 's right of refusal was limited to the stage of assessment ; and ( 5 ) the judge had failed to have sufficient regard to the medical evidence against transferring W. , to the advantages of not moving her and to her wishes and his decision was plainly wrong . |
| 46 | Indeed , we see little of their grandeur from the line itself as we cross the Wharncliffe Viaduct on the Great Western Railway , or the beautiful bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead , and plunge into the Classical-Renaissance portal of Box Tunnel ; or as we traverse the great Tring cutting on the old London and North Western . |
| 47 | I 'm sure Sukey turns on sixpence . ’ |
| 48 | Many TNCs embark on offshore production to escape from their domestic unions , particularly in the United States . |
| 49 | NEARLY 50 Amnesty members from at least 15 local groups across London joined forces on Saturday 17 October to go on an ‘ embassy crawl ’ in support of the indigenous peoples campaign . |
| 50 | June 16 : Navion 4 OO–NIQ crashed on approach to Wevelgem and written-off . |
| 51 | In 1899 Watson came on a second tour and this time went to the far west . |
| 52 | In 1952 Degenhart collaborated on an exhibition of contemporary Italian drawings and he is proud to have known personally Carrà , Manzú , Marini , Balla and Severini . |
| 53 | ‘ All Europe stands on a threshold — and we Europeans now have to make a choice . |
| 54 | In an appeal on June 11 Iran called on the UN to protect between 500,000 and 900,000 Shias who were reportedly trapped in the marshes of southern Iraq surrounded by 100,000 Iraqi troops and airborne units [ see pp. 38081-82 ; 38211 ] . |
| 55 | Effective PR depends on : |
| 56 | Some prostitutes in ancient Greece hit on a novel way of plying their trade . |
| 57 | I noticed there were two late Chagalls up on the wall , evidently from his Parisian or American period … along with some fairly large gouaches . |
| 58 | She thought of Tony , back in Manchester , big , blond Tony working on the buses to get some cash together , looking after the bedsit and the cat , writing her long letters . |
| 59 | The latter set out the conditions under which Croatia would be prepared to participate in a remodelled Yugoslavia based on an association of those sovereign states . |
| 60 | At press conferences and public appearances the good-natured Chavez sits on King 's right in what was the Tyson seat and the promoter poses for photographs with his arm flung around the Mexican 's shoulders . |