Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] on [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that made my hair stand on end was when I would say : ‘ Dive through that window there and , as you go through it , hit it with your fists clenched together , tuck your head down in between on your elbows , get through and , as you go through , go into a roll . ’ |
| 2 | was also licensed in Florida , where a two hour course on AIDS was needed for the renewal of the licence . |
| 3 | I , I mean my five hundred pound limit on Marks was what I asked for . |
| 4 | While turnover overall has advanced from £46.09m to £55.37m , reflecting the inclusion of BMK for a 10 month period , comparable turnover year on year was down 11% . |
| 5 | In 260 pregnancies ( 3.7% of the total ) the two hour glucose value on testing was >6.9 mmol/l , and clinical details of the mother and baby were obtained from the case notes in these cases . |
| 6 | The Republic , however , was on the defensive everywhere , and the relentless enemy onslaught on Madrid was draining its human , material and spiritual resources , as well as taking a heavy toll in political terms . |
| 7 | The efforts of Lord Carrington as chair of the EC-sponsored peace conference on Yugoslavia were increasingly criticized as ineffective . |
| 8 | SIR , — Dr Jonas of Upjohn ( May 1 , p 1150 ) claims that my summary of the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee meeting on triazolam was highly selective . |
| 9 | Pre-Falklands , her average monthly approval score on Gallup was 36 per cent ; after the war until June 1983 it was 47 per cent . |
| 10 | One of the record request programmes on RTD was Hongera [ ‘ Congratulations ' ] . |
| 11 | Among the first private trolley operators on BR were Rightline Caterers of Rhyl , seen here working 17.40 chester–Rhyl service on a very cold 25 February 1986 , when the well–known instant coffee , common to both private and public sectors , was extremely welcome . |
| 12 | The occurrence of great spotted cuckoo parasitism on magpies was reported at Iznalloz ( 800–1,400m above sea level , 40km away from Guadix ) as early as 1885 ( ref. 10 ) . |
| 13 | The effect of eradication of H pylori on basal gastrin and acid secretion is more consistent with the idea that circulating gastrin is responsible for driving basal acid secretion in patients with duodenal ulcer , because the fall in basal gastrin concentration on eradication was accompanied by a proportional fall in basal acid secretion . |
| 14 | When analysed by time period there was some evidence that , for the regressions including a proxy for information ( futures or spot volatility ) , the overall negative maturity effect on volatility was weaker for contracts maturing after the stock market crash in October 1987 . |
| 15 | The late night movie on BBC2 was the shot-in-Newcastle thriller Payroll , starring Billie Whitelaw as a widow swearing to get even with the armed robbers who shot her husband during a security van robbery . |
| 16 | and we wanted to get it through Access , and the credit limit on Access was what was it a thousand ? |
| 17 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 18 | Excise duty on cigarettes was to be increased by 16p per packet . |
| 19 | The short-term reaction to the second oil price increase on GNP was much less severe , and Japan went into the 1980s with higher growth rates relative to other Western economies , though well below the rates achieved before 1973 . |
| 20 | In due course the surface temperature on Venus was higher than the boiling point of water , so that there was no longer any possibility of liquid water on the planet 's surface — in other words , there could be no rivers or seas . |
| 21 | The Government 's formal negotiating stance on pay was set out by Mr Clarke , who said there was no question of increasing the general 6.5 per cent offer . |
| 22 | The Government 's formal negotiating stance on pay was set out by Mr Clarke , who said there was no question of increasing the general 6.5 per cent offer . |
| 23 | The Government 's formal negotiating stance on pay was set out by Mr Clarke , who said there was no question of increasing the general 6.5 per cent offer . |
| 24 | The Government 's formal negotiating stance on pay was set out by Mr Clarke , who told a press conference there was no question of increasing the general 6.5 per cent offer to the ambulance crews in the face of disruptive action . |
| 25 | A fourth summit meeting on Liberia was held by the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) in Yammoussoukro , capital of Côte d'Ivoire , on Oct. 29-31 . |
| 26 | The terms of reference of the policy group on crime were : ‘ to assess post-war trends in crime and their probable cause , to evaluate current and proposed new methods for the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders and to make recommendations . |
| 27 | On paper News on Sunday was a brilliant idea . |
| 28 | A couple of years ago ex-Bishop Montefiore suggested in the Guardian that spending money on AZT was wasteful , and that it should be spent on hip replacements instead . |
| 29 | Just as the decision to bar Holyfield 's people from his final , unrevealing sparring session on Monday was a piece of boredom-relieving kidology . |
| 30 | Fines of Ecu10m imposed by the European Court in 1986 for alleged competition infringements on poly-propylene were reduced on appeal to Ecu9m , but are still being appealed against . |