Example sentences of "the [noun prp] on [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watt , out for a sabbath stroll past the Golf-House on Glasgow Green when he should have been in church , had a flash of inspiration that was to change the lives of every man , woman , and bairn on planet earth . |
| 2 | Dave Thomas from Abingdon who was a cook with the RAF on Christmas Island has suffered illness all his life since that time . |
| 3 | Black protests grew louder , and new movements , like the March on Washington organization and the Congress of Racial Equality , called for an end to discrimination . |
| 4 | The wall can be found behind the Beran Filling Station , which lies at the highest point of the Bangor on Llanberis road ( B4547 ) , about 200 metres from the Deiniolen turn-off . |
| 5 | It was the dying days of the citizen Army , the young men who were reluctantly called up to serve their Queen and country — to learn how to fire a gun , to march in step and to use contraceptives when they took out the girl from the NAAFI on Saturday nights . |
| 6 | Hello there … the olympic gold rush hit Central South over the weekend … first as we predicted … as we hoped … the Henley on Thames rowing machine of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent cruised home in the coxless pairs … and while they were enjoying themselves in Spain . |
| 7 | It 's probably just as well I 'm leaving for the States on Saturday week . ’ |
| 8 | The 1992 AGM and annual lunch was held at the Hilton on Park Lane , London . |
| 9 | This policy has allowed the preparation of the Phoenix on data processing and computer science , for instance , which was published without waiting for the twentieth edition . |
| 10 | The carpet was specially woven by the Stratford on Avon School of Weaving and measures 13¾ by 16½ inches . |
| 11 | The Rochester on Medway Dickens ' Festival expanded significantly in this year , and Theatre Link , that collaborative effort between Guildford , Leatherhead and Farnham , did its first tour . |
| 12 | And that 's why the Ross on Wye firm say its business is booming , while Jensen is more than half a million pounds in the red . |
| 13 | JOHN Major 's tub-thumping speech at the Guildhall on Monday night went down in the City like a lead balloon . |
| 14 | The er , the Scotland on Sunday piece |
| 15 | The old building , seen from the Thames on summer days , is quietly and broodingly majestic . |
| 16 | Two composers have had three commissions supported — the young Edinburgh composer , Kenneth Dempster , who will write works for the Hebrides Ensemble and the Leda Piano Trio , and the established Glasgow composer and folk musician , Edward McGuire , who has commissions from the Chamber Group of Scotland , the Silver Duo , and from the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival , for a work with local children . |
| 17 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 18 | Ruby Tiger beat All At Sea at Goodwood and she was in action across the Atlantic on Saturday night , running second in the Beverly D Stakes at Arlington Park , Chicago . |
| 19 | At the press conference at the Bastille on Monday Mr Berge was only offering a ‘ petit saison ’ . |
| 20 | England 's Premier League and BSkyB have signed a massive £304 million five-year deal to show 60 League games live on Sundays and Mondays , with highlights on the BBC on Saturday nights . |
| 21 | Until the Van Sant collection arrived in London for display in the ICA on Pall Mall , and we were able to see his creations fly by the Round Pond in Kensington Palace Gardens and at the Festival Hall on the River Thames , most of our kite-thinking came in straight lines . |
| 22 | A Soviet team acting under the Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) Treaty [ see p. 37838 ] inspected military installations in the UK on Oct. 29-Nov.1 [ see p. 38458 ] , while US inspectors reviewed Soviet military activities in Lvov on Oct. 28-30 under the terms of the CFE Treaty . |
| 23 | Version 5.1 of Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp 's word processing software will be available in the UK on Sun Microsystems Inc workstations from the third quarter . |
| 24 | The Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen visited the United Kingdom and Germany on March 8-12 [ see p. 38815 for Qian 's talks in the UK on Hong Kong ] . |
| 25 | Sonny 's guitar style — taking in everything from evocative Dobro through to sizzling lead , with a neat line in unlikely techniques like harmonics from nowhere and playing between the slide and the nut — has been perfectly showcased on his three solo albums to date , ‘ Blues Attack ’ , ‘ Way Down In Louisiana ’ and ‘ Outward Bound ’ ( the latter is highly recommended and is available in the UK on Zoo Records , through BMG ) . |
| 26 | THE SDLP on Down Council has confirmed its intention to continue power-sharing between the two traditions , after extending its majority to three in last week 's elections . |
| 27 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 28 | The FN on March 30-April 1 , 1990 , held in Nice its eighth congress since the party 's creation in 1972 ; it was attended by 1,600 FN delegates . |
| 29 | The Legend of St. Elisabeth ( 1857–62 ) features three pieces from the Oratorio on piano solo : the ‘ Orchestral Introduction ’ sets the atmosphere with a simple devotional melody ; ‘ Crusaders ’ March ’ is a series of contrasting fanfare motives over a vigorously varied key structure , and ‘ Interludium ’ uses first , fifth and eighth note repeated sequences with a tail-end flourish throughout . |
| 30 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |