Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOTOROLA SIGNS CHORUS FOR MICROKERNEL ON POWERPC … |
| 2 | Fixed-term contracts may make provision for employees on leave to have their passage(s) to and from home paid for by the employer . |
| 3 | DOE will make requests for information on the numbers of requests made under the Directive . |
| 4 | Each vidane was given forms in triplicate on which to record information about crimes . |
| 5 | Lord Ashburton KCVO ( 64 ) became Chairman of BP on 25 June 1992 . |
| 6 | He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank . |
| 7 | Situated west of Carlisle on the shores of the Solway Firth , Silloth boasts superb views of the Lake District on one side , Scotland on the other . |
| 8 | What the polyptychs clearly suggest , however , is that in areas west of the Rhine , landlords ' cash-demands ( backed as they were by the threat of force ) drove peasants to acquire coin through transactions on their own account . |
| 9 | Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack . |
| 10 | Opponents of the NGC 's plans to erect pylons from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton near York challenged the company at a pre-public inquiry meeting in Northallerton yesterday . |
| 11 | Now the business that supplies products for use on structures from bridges to oil rigs has launched Ecotech alternatives to mainstream coatings that form the basis of its standard range . |
| 12 | An EC-EFTA meeting on Dec. 19 made progress in discussions on the European Economic Area or EEA ( the term now adopted in preference to " European Economic Space " or EES — see pp. 37134 ; 37535 ) , and it was anticipated that these EC-EFTA talks would now reach a conclusion by mid-1992 such that an EEA agreement could go through the various ratification processes and take effect on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 13 | At an informal meeting in Apeldoorn , the Netherlands , on the weekend of Sept. 21-22 the 12 Finance Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) together with their central bank presidents made progress in negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) , agreeing that the decision on the start of " stage three " should be made by unanimous agreement of all 12 heads of state and government , rather than by majority decision . |
| 14 | Hercule Poirot did not spring fully-formed into life on Page 34 of his first adventure , The Mysterious Affair at Styles . |
| 15 | James Carreras , its salesman , would pitch projects to distributors on the basis of title and poster . |
| 16 | He said he had heard calls for unity on every side , but for a unity of common interests , attitudes and culture shared by the two Germanys . |
| 17 | Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class . |
| 18 | Herbert Tempest asked readers for information on George Whitbread , a man he lost touch with 40 years ago after they served in the same RAF squadron . |
| 19 | At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent . |
| 20 | These two tasks completed , the exposed pith was cut into narrow strips like ribbons , which were then placed side by side on a large , perfectly-flat slab of limestone which was kept permanently damp by boys scattering water on it , ever-moving fingers flicking across from earthenware pots . |
| 21 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 22 | Thirty years ago , a national commission chaired by Kenneth Ryan produced guidelines for research on living human fetuses . |
| 23 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 24 | English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] . |
| 25 | The " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had already risen by 60 per cent in six weeks to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 , passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 , with production down by the 4,000,000 barrels per day of lost Iraqi and Saudi production . |
| 26 | Iraq 's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait caused a dramatic increase in oil prices ; the " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had fallen to $16.60 per barrel on June 5 , rose to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 and passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 . |
| 27 | Lukanov met Gorbachev and Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov in Moscow on March 19 , 1990 , and Lilov met Gorbachev in Moscow on May 23 . |
| 28 | A pair of Jacobean Dersinghams , husband and wife in about half life-size , kneeling side by side on a plinth , looked stolidly into eternity . |
| 29 | to call for all SSDs and SWDs to issue guidance to staff on identifying and dealing with elder abuse ; |
| 30 | The distribution is clearly non-uniform , reflecting concentrations of effort on particular problems , such as Lewisian geochemistry and chronology , Tertiary igneous geology , the Moine Thrust zone , and others . |