Example sentences of "on [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shawn Slater , 25 , whose grandfather ran a fish and chip shop on the seafront at Bournemouth , is the new , disarming face of the Ku Klux Klan in America , intent on building on the political success of neo-Nazi groups in Germany and France . |
| 2 | Sir Alf can now concentrate again on building for the future instead of defending the past . ’ |
| 3 | They both started by declaring a moratorium on building for the civil service , so time went by and little advance was made . |
| 4 | And then we 've gradually worked on building up the spelling . |
| 5 | 1973 there was only a limited attempt at directing private development within the burghs of Kirkwall and Stromness and there were no restrictions on building in the Landward area of the county . |
| 6 | Perhaps the greatest accolade which could receive for his efforts came in June 1966 when Her Majesty the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visited the St Cuthberts Carriage Museum , and inspected restoration work on the collection taking place alongside work on coaches from the Royal Mews . |
| 7 | On removal of the mask … the face was at once seen … |
| 8 | With duplex Doppler scanning of the common femoral vein in humans we have shown a considerable reduction in peak blood flow velocity and shortening of the flow cycle during the respiratory phase on two occasions , with a return to normal venous blood flow characteristics on removal of the intraperitoneal gas . |
| 9 | On removal of the overall strain the matrix returns elastically to its former dimensions and deforms the fibril with it , first elastically and then plastically . |
| 10 | Colonoscopy showed over 100 adenomatous polyps , but no carcinoma was found on removal of the colon and rectum . |
| 11 | Note that the measurement period commenced after the plants had been in the new environment for a short while , not immediately on removal from the controlled conditions of the growth cupboard . |
| 12 | A holiday on Exmoor in the course of that summer was dogged by her rheumatism . |
| 13 | His father , Robert , a US Marine Corps major , was on contract to the CIA for the notorious Vietnam-era Phoenix programme , in which US teams apprehended hundreds of thousands of Vietcong sympathisers for secret police interrogation . |
| 14 | We will improve the way in which council housing is managed by bringing in new private sector providers operating on contract to the local authority . |
| 15 | You will be on contract to the British Government for 2 years , on loan to the Government of the British Virgin Islands . |
| 16 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 17 | Because of the savings in overheads , and the capacity of such large , high-quality research programmes to attract external funding , such multi-student projects as the mapping of the geology of the Outer Hebrides on contract to the British Geological Survey may become more common in future , with the result that departmental research could become more project-oriented ( applied research ) than subject-inspired ( basic research ) . |
| 18 | Universities can and have contributed to Geological Survey research , for example in producing the map and descriptive ‘ Memoir ’ ( this term is used with a specific meaning in geology ) for the Aberdeen area ( Sheet 77 ) , part of the survey work was carried out by Ph D students from the University of Aberdeen on contract to the Geological Survey . |
| 19 | The sailing master was corpulent and red-faced , a civilian professional who held honorary Navy rank while he was employed on contract with the Fleet . |
| 20 | Essentially the Conservative government said to family doctors , ‘ You want to remain private practitioners on contract with the NHS . |
| 21 | It had been reported on April 24 that Czechoslovakia would not renew the agreements under which some 46,000 foreign workers , including 37,000 Vietnamese , were employed on contract in the country . |
| 22 | Under this principle , the Regulation gives the Commission sole competence to make decisions on mergers within the scope of the Regulation , whether or not the merger is adjudged to be compatible with the Common Market . |
| 23 | The Carlton bid comes just a week after the Government announced plans to relax rules on mergers within the ITV network . |
| 24 | Over the past five years , the Department of Health has spent £13m on projects at the Royal hospitals complex . |
| 25 | Known as ArtsLink , the programme has two components : its Collaborative Projects support American individuals or groups of up to five people seeking to collaborate with counterparts in Eastern Europe on projects in the visual , performing and media arts , architecture and design or literature . |
| 26 | Would we , for example , expect adaptors to feel better when working on projects in the Q4 area , and innovators in the Q1 area ( Kirton , 1976 ) ? |
| 27 | Since independence in 1980 , white landlords have freely sold the government enough land to resettle 52,000 black families on projects like the one at Musengezi . |
| 28 | So far , Detroit city officials have pinned their redevelopment hopes on projects like the Poletown plant . |
| 29 | A statement about cognitive difference based on assessment of the nature of literacy is as socially-embedded and open to challenge as are statements about cognitive differences based on race , ethnicity and class . |
| 30 | Just answering the first question on assessment of the over seventy-fives , that in fact really should be better left for the to say . |