Example sentences of "on [noun sg] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |
| 2 | However , the Guardian of March 26 assessed that the Council 's composition suggested that " [ Gorbachev ] wants to bring on board a variety of different constituencies and force them to toe the line " . |
| 3 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 4 | Southern Railway kept a mule at Spencer Shops whose sole purpose was to get on board a train on Sunday so that a run could be made from Spencer to Goldsboro . |
| 5 | He met his wife of 61 years on board a train on his way to work in 1921 . |
| 6 | The bill of lading is a document that the master of the vessel gives to the merchant-shipper in which he acknowledges having received on board a number of packages or cases containing the quantity or quality of merchandise to be consigned or delivered to a person in the place where the ship must go . |
| 7 | We first encounter Anderson , a professor of ethics , on board a plane for Prague , where he has been invited to speak at a philosophy conference . |
| 8 | ‘ First of all , the ‘ boy ’ ai n't such a ‘ boy ’ no longer … life on board a ship in the middle o' the ocean ai n't for no boy . ’ |
| 9 | For example , on wheatfeed a by-product of flour milling , we hold information on over 20 different flour mills . |
| 10 | Upon notice being given to the Corporation that the motor car described in the Schedule is to be laid up and out of use for a period of not less than four consecutive weeks ( otherwise than as a result of loss or damage covered by the Policy ) and subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policy will be automatically suspended as from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation except as regards loss of or damage to such motor car by fire lightning explosion theft or attempted theft and on renewal a refund of 75% of the pro rata premium for the suspended period will be deducted from the renewal premium . |
| 11 | Where cover is Third Party only the Policy will be entirely suspended and on renewal a refund of 80% of the pro rata premium will be allowed . |
| 12 | We decided that the the otential the action potential of course are on Editor A look at control , we can look at single channel currents . |
| 13 | There is on record a confession of Cobden-Sanderson 's , who said of a failure to bind a copy of Tennyson 's In Memoriam to his satisfaction : ‘ I could spit upon the book , throw it out of the window , into the fire , upon the ground and grind it with my heel . ‘ |
| 14 | I would like to put on record a summary of the meetings and correspondence between myself ( on behalf of ‘ Spokes ’ ) and officers of British Waterways . |
| 15 | Jerry Rawlings , chair of the PNDC , said that if the assembly completed its work on schedule a referendum on the constitution would be held in January or February 1992 and , if it won support , parliamentary elections would be held " by the last quarter of 1992 at the latest " . |
| 16 | They burnt on occasion a couple of Popes , or perhaps the same Pope twice ; it was n't anti-Catholicism , teenage daughters just objected to something he had said . |
| 17 | On occasion a member of parliament might be asked to obtain a sinecure , a nominal place which would provide income without the necessity of having to do anything to earn it . |
| 18 | The strength of their conviction both in the inevitability of elites and in the certainty of their own demonstration is both a limitation and on occasion a source of penetrating insights . |
| 19 | Gosplan and other central economic organs from 1921 on had accumulated on paper a number of plans for reconstruction which they were now eager to realize . |
| 20 | The process takes a little time to grasp but very soon you will quickly put down on paper a series of " main points " . |
| 21 | This two-day sale of Impressionist and modern paintings , drawings and sculpture will put on offer a group of works on paper by Egon Schiele , one of which is a watercolour of his wife Edith signed and dated 1915 ( est. £300–400,000 ; $530–700,000 ) . |
| 22 | As , lecturer in organisational psychology at Heriot-Watt University , explained : ‘ On average a company with 1,000 employees loses £200,000 a year through stress-related factors including lost production , replacement costs , and absenteeism . ’ |
| 23 | In one study , based on an analysis of five high-school textbooks , Fitzgerald took six sets of three samples from each book , and found that individual samples spanned a range of at least ten grades within each book , and the means of the sets of three had on average a range of three grades within each book . |
| 24 | 7.9.1 to produce to the Tenant on demand a copy of the policy and of the last premium renewal receipt or reasonable evidence of the terms of the policy and the fact that the last premium has been paid |
| 25 | There are cupboards full of y ’ clothes you left behind ; you 've put on flesh a bit round the bosom , but Selene 'll let 'em out . ’ |
| 26 | Here the land is flat and fertile like Ayrshire and as if on cue a herd of Ayrshire cows obliged by ambling by Loch Watten . |
| 27 | I 'd better get some clothies on cause a bit of a stir round the estate agents , naked from the waist down , darling |
| 28 | ‘ Book Arts : Art Books ’ puts on show a selection of books from the Musée royal de Mariemont , Belgium . |
| 29 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 30 | However , on balance a majority of UK economists have appeared to favour the discretionary cost-benefit approach or have thought the rules approach too dogmatic ( see e.g. Sutherland 1970 , Howe 1972 , Utton 1975 , Fleming and Swann 1989 , and George 1989 ) , and have tended to argue for a continuance of the present investigatory policy with some considerable strengthening of procedures . |