Example sentences of "in [noun prp] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's gathered 18,000 signatures in Swindon on a petition protesting about the fuel tax . |
| 2 | The case follows a police raid in January on a caravan site at Sandford near Oxford . |
| 3 | Work started in January on a £20 million programme of improvements at Stirling Castle , designed to restore the historic fabric of the castle and make it even more interesting for visitors . |
| 4 | Arriving in Spain on a morale boosting visit to the £10 million set , he angrily attacked calls for the show to be axed . |
| 5 | The curricular review for the age group 5–14 years presents exciting challenges and during the forthcoming academic year the MESP will be extended to 100 primary schools in Scotland on a pilot basis . |
| 6 | Kingfisher Books has completed its sales force with the following appointments : Linda Lewis , formerly at Simon & Schuster Young Books , covers south-west England , south England , south Wales , north London and Herts and can be contacted on ; Carol Greenhorn ( ) , formerly at Reed Consumer Books , represents Kingfisher in Scotland on a freelance basis . |
| 7 | The BCP supreme council , meeting on Feb. 23 , decided to hold a ballot of all party members in May on a proposal that the party should be renamed the Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 8 | In 1983 they were the subject of a strike in Warrington on a £9.5 million government contract . |
| 9 | While no systematic research has been done on language use within families in the Bradford Dominican community , Tate considers that her informants , who were Rastafarian members of a band , had competence in JC on a par with natives of Jamaica ( Tate is herself Jamaican-born ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Cripes , yes , on a horse with a spear in the plains of the Punjab — not the same as in swimming trunks outside the amusement arcade in Northend on a Friday night . ’ |
| 12 | Brian — better known as BK to his friends — went to the Ukraine in November on a visit organised by the Life Church of Mobile . |
| 13 | During the Second World War Dall was one of a dozen experts called to Farnborough to examine the wreckage of a V2 rocket that had crashed in Sweden on a test flight . |
| 14 | ‘ I was in Paris on a job . |
| 15 | On July 29 the South Korean government revealed that it had been invited by the North to attend talks in China on a development project in the Tumen River region , on the Sino-North Korean border . |
| 16 | Mr Perren tells me : ‘ By happy coincidence , on the very same day Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was in Bath on a film set too — the Merchant Ivory movie of The Remains Of The Day which she has scripted from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel . ’ |
| 17 | McCann happened to be at home in Derry on a visit when he was invited to take part in a DHAC demonstration . |
| 18 | ( On Jan. 3 the UK Home Secretary Kenneth Baker had held talks in Delhi on a draft extradition treaty . ) |
| 19 | Driving around the North Circular in Walthamstow on a weekday morning is not usually an activity likely to bring a smile to one 's face . |
| 20 | He is only in Britain on a work permit , and fears being deported back to Nigeria . |
| 21 | He was really upset about that , but Maastricht gave us the ability that we could ex have that in Britain on a majority decision . |
| 22 | Russell Reynolds also handled the celebrated search on behalf of Lord Keith of Beecham which resulted in the appointment of Bob Bauman , then one of the most highly-paid CEOs in Britain on a £1m. salary . |
| 23 | Finally , work in Oxford on a strain of diabetic mouse is beginning to reveal the genes that govern susceptibility to the disease . |
| 24 | Shopping became a family outing — hordes would go to ASDA in Stockton on a Saturday . |
| 25 | And artist Terry Gravett is due to start work in September on a mural at the back of the main stadium of the Oval Football ground , which will be visible from the Sydenham Bypass . |
| 26 | Born on 1st February 1887 , he commenced his banking career on 27th May 1909 when he entered the Bank of Ireland in Waterford on a salary of £60 per annum . |
| 27 | They also confirmed that an American named David Lovejoy had made a series of calls to Hussein Niknam , the Iranian chargé d'affaires , about a team of American agents , led by Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Kevin Gannon , who had arrived in Beirut on a mission concerned with the hostages . |
| 28 | A BOY aged 14 has appeared before a court in Crewe on a charge of attempting to rape a 92-year-old spinster while carrying out a burglary . |
| 29 | Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning . |
| 30 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |