Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary , his research showed that on the whole , supervisors with the best performance were those who concentrated their main efforts on the human aspects of their staff 's problems and attempted to build work groups with high performance standards . |
| 2 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 3 | Six heavy 18-pounder siege guns were brought from Whitehaven , a cumbrous , three-day , process , but on 28 December the siege began and on the morning of the 30th , after Cumberland had hanged four prisoners outside the walls as a specimen of what the rest may expect' , a white flag was hoisted . |
| 4 | The huge interest generated in the share issue meant that on the first day of trading , the partially paid price of 50p immediately increased to 93p , which emphasised the extent of the undervaluation of the company ; the share price subsequently increased by even more . |
| 5 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 6 | When he stood Godfather in Fowey , custom demanded that on the way to the christening he should carry the traditional cake and offer it to the first person he saw . |
| 7 | On seventeenth of August nineteen sixty seven object of defeating the option and having discovered through the result of his solicitors that the option had not been registered , sold and been paid the farm five hundred pounds and after the sale by registering the option under the land chartered act and on the sixth of October nineteen sixty seventeen could have exercised the option and neither or his wife complied with the notice and on March twenty eighth nineteen sixty eight wife died and on the twenty seventh of January nineteen seventy commenced proceedings against his father against his mother 's executors the declaration of the option was . |
| 8 | The court held that on the authorities it was bound to quash the sentence of three months ' imprisonment , Scott L.J . |
| 9 | The prosecution alleged that on the day of the murder in September 1991 Bartman had been in a bad mood . |
| 10 | In both Italy and Spain , parliamentary approval of the Maastricht treaty went though on the nod . |
| 11 | Susan Montgomery , a food service assistant at the hospital said that on the day Mrs Gilfoyle , 33 , was found , Gilfoyle was unusually reticent . |
| 12 | In 1930 the British Legion stated that on the annual poppy day collection depended their ability to assist all ex-servicemen . |
| 13 | The Crown contended that on a true construction of s 72 , an election under s 74(4) was available only where the capital distribution was small , and that since , in this case , the capital distribution was not small , the inspector 's apportionment calculation in accordance with s 35 was therefore correct . |
| 14 | At dinner after a meeting in 1838 , a guest suggested that on the following year all house-guests should wear the costumes of knights and their ladies . |
| 15 | By a majority the Court of Appeal held that on the true analysis the firm had in fact been automatically dissolved ( because its continuance would have been illegal ) so soon as there was a failure to renew the practising certificate by one of its members , and that thereafter the properly qualified partners had carried on in a new partnership at will which was not prevented from recovering its costs . |