Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social relationships in medieval Sussex were based on military needs as much as economics , at least until the later fourteenth century . |
| 2 | Well , poor old Veronica is going on holiday or something of that sort . |
| 3 | The use of chemical weapons , including napalm , against fleeing civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan was confirmed on April 3 by the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , who added that " more than two million Kurds are leaving under constant bombardment " . |
| 4 | When British Telecom was approached on the subject , we found that DDI can only be operated on a digital system ; the existing system is analogue . |
| 5 | ( A more restrained Bristol is concentrating on lutes — presumably still recovering from the bagpipes . ) |
| 6 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |
| 7 | The East and West German SPD were merged on Sept. 27-28 [ see p. 37718 ] . |
| 8 | Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations . |
| 9 | The Ukrainian KGB was dissolved on Sept. 20 , to be replaced by a security service under the control of the republican government . |
| 10 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the magnificent Harris 's looked on menacingly . |
| 12 | A shopping precinct in Great Baddow was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after Chelmsford police received a bomb call which turned out to be a hoax . |
| 13 | A relative of the latter , the curious , screw-like Archimedes is shown on p.65 . |
| 14 | ‘ The Berlin Wall 's down , Eastern Europe 's put on democracy like an old coat , Russia 's bankrupt and we 're all suckers , Wallace . |
| 15 | And their preservation was not due to any touristic interest ; for in a real as well as a metaphorical sense , colonial Cuzco was built on their foundations as well as on the backs of the native population . |
| 16 | An extraordinary session of the central committee of the ruling PDG was held on Jan. 10-14 , 1990 . |
| 17 | But 27-year-old Clinton is banking on the traditional deafening din to help him wrest the WBO flyweight title from Mexican Isidro Perez and become only the sixth Scot to hold a world crown . |
| 18 | The historical sources tend to be accepted unless there is evidence to the contrary , by which process much of what can be read about Anglo-Saxon England is based on uncorroborated historical evidence written down hundreds of years after the events they describe . |
| 19 | Now the Irish Winston is going on the road . |
| 20 | All flint mines in southern Britain are located on the Chalk ( fig. 6. 5 ) . |
| 21 | Five-week-old Christopher was admitted on 12 April because of vomiting and was found to be suffering from a narrowing of the exit of the stomach . |
| 22 | The two awards complement each other well , with the underpinning knowledge and skills required for the general SVQ being delivered in our training centres , while the practical skills demanded by the occupational SVQ are developed on work placement . |
| 23 | The New Norfolk is situated on A456 Hagley road 2 miles from the City . |
| 24 | You should ensure that the new SPR is based on an SPR identifier that is known to LIFESPAN . |
| 25 | A Serbian Autonomous Region of Western Slavonia was established on Aug. 13 . |
| 26 | Licences for woodchip exports from Tasmania , New South Wales and Western Australia were renewed on Dec. 31 … |
| 27 | The Royal Fusiliers were to advance on the German lines the following morning , having been given the responsibility for breaking through their northern flank . |
| 28 | ‘ And that the most powerful kings in pre-Norman Ireland were crowned on the Hill of Tara ? ’ |