Example sentences of "in an [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Dr Tanner in The Lancet of 1849 , ether used in an operation on the vagina of a prostitute incited ‘ lascivious dreams ’ . |
| 2 | ( S. ) 487 , where a young woman who had been raped took part in an attack on the man responsible , after he had been released from a sentence of 18 month 's imprisonment after serving six months . |
| 3 | The paper 's initial foray suffered from a certain paucity of research and culminated in an attack on the impeccably orthodox BBC disc-jockey David Jacobs whose prime status was wilting under the impact of the new pirate radio stations . |
| 4 | Eleven dissident soldiers and seven Transkei government troops were killed in an attack on the main Army base and later in fighting for control of government offices in the homeland capital , Umtata . |
| 5 | The fundamentalist Nahda movement ( Mouvement de la Renaissance ) announced the suspension of its activities following the implication of some of its followers in an attack on the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Constitutional Rally in Tunis on Feb. 17 [ see p. 38026 ] . |
| 6 | The inclusion of the ADM-19 , dominated by the former M-19 left-wing guerrillas who had demobilized in March 1990 , effectively removed the threat of legal action being taken against the M-19 leadership for their involvement in an attack on the Palace of Justice in November 1985 [ see p. 38907 ] . |
| 7 | Konstantin Trenchev , chairman of the leading Podkrepa Trade Union Federation , was arrested on Aug. 7 and charged with incitement to destroy public property together with 37 others alleged to have participated in an attack on the Sofia headquarters of the Bulgarian Communist Party on Aug. 26 , 1990 [ see p. 37666 ] . |
| 8 | The rebels replied on February 17th by killing 45 soldiers in an ambush on the northern coast where the army has some camps . |
| 9 | A ZANLA terrorist had risen out of the bushes with a Kalashnikov while Mike had been involved in an ambush on the Limpopo river which had been set up by the Selous Scouts , the counterinsurgency tracking teams of the Rhodesian army . |
| 10 | Seven people have been killed and seven others injured in an explosion on the Omagh-Cookstown Road in County Tyrone . |
| 11 | Antonio Navarro Wolff , president of the April 19 Movement Democratic Alliance ( AD/M-19 ) , announced on May 21 that he would call on the government to hold a plebiscite on whether an amnesty should be granted to former M-19 guerrillas who had participated in an assault on the Palace of Justice in the capital , Bogotá , on Nov. 6-7 , 1985 , during which 106 people were killed [ see pp. 34152-53 ; 34804-05 ] . |
| 12 | In an incident on the Shankill over a week ago , loyalist sources claim the wife of a prominent UDA man was forced to kneel in pouring rain in her back yard while an RUC officer held a gun to her head . |
| 13 | The only other thing you have to be wary of when playing bream is their ability , whether intentional or otherwise , to glide in an arc on the end of your line rather like a kite in a strong wind . |
| 14 | Among other things , Kaplan , the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the American financial magazine Institutional Investor , in an authority on the paintings of René Magritte ( on whom he wrote a monograph in 1982 ) , an active trustee of carnegie Hall , and a generous patron of the arts in New York . |
| 15 | As late as 1949 , when Life magazine featured Modigliani nudes in an article on the painter , they continued to offend high-minded citizens . |
| 16 | Hall then wrote to Palmerston , on 20th March , only one week after asking for the designs , saying that he would not include Donaldson as I think it very doubtful whether the new Department will be proceeded with , as I hope the Downing Street improvement will be carried out' , and two days later The Saturday Review in an article on the competition also suggested that the War Department should be moved to the Downing Street area . |
| 17 | In an article on the Cox Report published in Critical Quarterly ( Winter 1990 ) , Gillian Brown writes : |
| 18 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 19 | There is almost always total consensus in an organization on the best and the worst performance , although there is rarely any agreement at all about the ranking of the group in between . |
| 20 | ( It 's worth remembering that Unix Labs has maintained from the beginning that COSE would eventually result in an agreement on the kernel , namely System V.4 or its descendent . |
| 21 | ( It 's worth remembering that Unix System Labs has maintained from the beginning that COSE would eventually result in an agreement on the kernel , namely SVR4 or its descendent ( UX No 430 ) ) . |
| 22 | Cheney 's visit also resulted in an agreement on the continued joint development of the " Arrow " anti-tactical ballistic missile project . |
| 23 | Talks subsequently took place in Pristina on Oct. 29 between Serbian and Albanian leaders , Panic , Vance and Owen , resulting in an agreement on the return of Albanian children to classes held in the Albanian language and a minimum agreement on lifting discriminatory laws . |
| 24 | But he died in an ambulance on the way to hospital . |
| 25 | He , we know , was employed by the young democracy of Athens at the end of the century to make bronze statues of the Tyrannicides two aristocrats who had failed in an attempt on the life of Hippias but killed his brother Hipparchos . |
| 26 | It 's only 3 months since her car was written off in an accident on the A34 in Oxfordshire ; an accident in which she was lucky to escape with her life . |
| 27 | MOTORCYCLIST Douglas Audaer died in an accident on the Yarm Industrial Estate in Darlington yesterday . |
| 28 | A WOMAN died and three others were injured when the car they were travelling in was involved in an accident on the access road to RAF Machrahanish , Campbeltown , yesterday . |
| 29 | POLICE yesterday named a 22-year-old woman who was killed in an accident on the M876 near Denny on Monday as Paula Young , of Myre Terrace , Kinross . |
| 30 | Mr Kinnock underlined his determination to adhere to a prudent expenditure programme in an interview on the BBC World at One programme yesterday . |