Example sentences of "on [noun] [noun prp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been at the police station , making statements about an assault on Miss Wilson by a man on the night in question . |
| 2 | In the year 1208 Sora ( in the Regno to the east of Rome ) and the title of count were conferred on Richard Conti by the king of Sicily 's representative , and on 6 October Richard tendered the oath of vassalage to the pope at Ferentino for all the territories he had acquired and investiture was made with the gilded chalice ( per cuppam deauratam ) . |
| 3 | Did you do the work on Saint Stephen by the way ? |
| 4 | At a public meeting in Barking Town Hall Wilson repeated the message to a wider audience , advising all the strikers in London to return to work , denouncing a prayer offered up on Tower Hill by the fiery Ben Tillett for the death of Lord Devonport , the Chairman of the Port of London Authority , assuring the men present that a just settlement could be achieved and declaring his intention of ordering his 4,000 London members back to their jobs . |
| 5 | Dr Siddiqui caused a furore in Manchester two months ago when he asked a meeting of Muslim activists to raise their hands in agreement with the death sentence imposed on Mr Rushdie by the late Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 6 | West Germany has so far denied , although with a detectable degree of ambiguity , that any deal was made , preferring to point to the humanitarian reasons for allowing an evacuation of the embassy , and the pressure supposedly exerted on East Germany by the Soviet Union to bring the occupation to a speedy end . |
| 7 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 8 | It drew together several countries in a common body which controlled important areas of the economy ; it was a sign of Franco-German rapprochement and it paved the way for the full removal of post-war industrial controls on West Germany by the Western allies ; it succeeded in overcoming doubt and opposition from politicians and industrialists ; and it created a workable machinery . |
| 9 | Kaunda stated that a similar appeal for clemency for Bazoft had failed due to the " vicious " attack on Saddam Hussein by the British authorities and press . |
| 10 | In Stapleford there 's extra lights on Bessle Lane by the Derby Road junction and in Mansfield , Toot Hill is closed from Bridge Street . |
| 11 | The story was a riposte to a similar stunt pulled on Tony Benn by the Sun . |