Example sentences of "board the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Right Comfort and style on board the luxurious ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 32 | The best eye-witness reports came from European officials living in the two important towns of Batavia and Buitenzorg , where there were even some useful scientific recording instruments — one of them at the Batavia town gasworks — and from the officers on board the various vessels that were on passage through the Straits at the time of the eruption . |
| 33 | By pushing the sail over to the left-hand side of the board the CE is also moved , causing the board to steer to the right . |
| 34 | So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees . |
| 35 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 36 | Most of them do feel that they have succeeded in bringing on board the majority of people in a country such as this to support their claims . |
| 37 | Eventually , however , he was traced to new lodgings at the Angel Inn nearby , and shortly afterwards , in spite of protests , was safely on board the Bath coach , with Southey standing guard . |
| 38 | member of the US Congress whom Martin Chuzzlewit meets on board the steamboat returning from Eden , a chauvinistic windbag celebrated for a speech called ‘ the Pogram Defiance ’ which , Martin is informed by another passenger , ‘ defied the world in general to com-pete with our country upon any hook ; and develop 'd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airth ’ . |
| 39 | Denis Law was reportedly on board the train but kept a careful distance from the fight . |
| 40 | The little sketch of Crinan Canal shows the halting-place where passengers wait to re-embark on board the canal boat . |
| 41 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 42 | In 1971 he moved to Canada , to Dalhousie University , and that same year sailed out of Halifax on board the research ship Hudson for his first field trip to study marine geology . |
| 43 | In 1974 he was on board the Glomar Challenger , for Leg 37 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project . |
| 44 | Train switching is controlled on board the trains themselves . |
| 45 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 46 | Hardware on board the craft transmitting data from the mapper has recently suffered a fault , leaving the low-resolution data the only kind available to ordinary ground stations . |
| 47 | The images in which researchers are most interested are from a sensor on board the vehicle called the thematic mapper . |
| 48 | Alternatively , the information obtained from a remote-sensing satellite could be inappropriate for a developing country if the sensors on board the vehicle are tailored only to the different requirements of industrialised nations . |
| 49 | All on board the aircraft lost their lives , and four male lodgers and a little girl of five were killed in No. 6 Hillside Avenue . |
| 50 | The women stayed on board the ships while the men went ashore to prepare accommodation . |
| 51 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 52 | The Secretary of State took on board the consultants ' recommendations and , in November 1988 , sanctioned the extension of MDC 's boundaries . |
| 53 | Take a short cruise from the Docks on board the trip boat , Queen Boadicea II . |
| 54 | One week at Little Dix Bay in the Virgin Isles starts from £1164.00 per person and one week 's ‘ Stay and Sail ’ at Caneel Bay , featuring four nights at the hotel and three nights on board the yacht , starts from £1316.00 . |
| 55 | It 's to one of the greatest of Champagne Houses that guests on board the Orient Express will be escorted on Sunday morning . |
| 56 | In truth no expense will be spared to royally entertain the guests on board the Champagne Orient Express . |
| 57 | Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August . |
| 58 | The same rich sound Jess had heard on board the brig . |
| 59 | Yes , she 'd repeated those same words the Cap'n had spoken on board the brig , though she 'd no notion what he meant . |
| 60 | You were with him on board the Princess and before in Jamaica . |