Example sentences of "on board [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The mounting of a wind generator on board a yacht should be carefully considered .
2 The four , Emmanuel Houtekins , his wife Godelieve Kets and their two children , had been on board a yacht , the Silco , in the Mediterranean ; there was some uncertainty over whether they had been seized off the coast near Gaza by the Abu Nidal group or south of Malta by a Libyan naval vessel .
3 For next month they perform the comedy Sub-Mariners on board a battleship .
4 Two children have been found dead from asphyxiation on board a ferry crossing from Swansea to Cork .
5 On board a Lowestoft boat
6 In an effort to bring peace to the island , PNG held talks with the rebels last August on board a New Zealand warship moored off Bougainville .
7 Mr MacLaren suggests that persistent enuretics on board a warship would create even more serious problems than in any army barracks , and I would agree with that proposition .
8 I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks .
9 The women and children were among ninety two Westerners on board a Virgin Atlantic plane from Jordan sent by Oxfordshire tycoon Richard Branson .
10 River Queen THE Queen has travelled on board a London River Bus for the first time .
11 High spirits that would be of use on board a man-of-war or on the march find vent in ‘ bashing ’ ’ the casual pedestrian or demolishing coffee stalls . ’
12 Sir William Shelton , Streatham , aims to tighten the law against kerb crawling and soliciting , and has taken on board a Home Office proposal to abolish the presumption that a boy aged under 14 is incapable of sexual intercourse .
13 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
14 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 " .
15 This incident was notable only because it was my first seizure made on board a cutter .
16 If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car .
17 When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’
18 That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men .
19 And maybe that is part of real life , maybe that is a fact of life that women have to take on board , but perhaps men have to take it on board a bit more as well .
20 In order to decide whether this is so , account must be taken , not only of the fact that the worker is employed on board a vessel registered in the member state in question , but also of other circumstances , such as the fact that he is in the employ of a company incorporated under the law of that state and established there , or the fact that he was hired in that state and that the employment relationship between him and his employer is subject to the law of the flag state , or the fact that he is insured under the social security system of that state and pays income tax there : see pp. 3009–3010 , paras .
21 Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims .
22 In the case of fire on board a vessel which is fitted with inboard machinery then it should be ascertained if the appropriate automatic fire extinguishing system was fitted to the vessel .
23 The first of these Tracking and Data Relay Satellites entered orbit on board a space shuttle earlier this week , but later ran into trouble when its second booster failed .
24 How did the news media , scientists and governments take on board a claim that made no sense within the laws of physics , was based in part on wrong data and that was shown to be flawed within days of the announcement ?
25 : My husband was steward cook on board a motor mine sweeper approaching the Forth Bridge after spending the morning practising a mine sweeping run .
26 We have had no choice but to take on board a sexuality which is defined in terms of its difference from the male , and therefore mystified ; which has been derived from biology and based around reproduction .
27 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 .
28 He met his wife of 61 years on board a train on his way to work in 1921 .
29 This time on board a train , which was stopped at Banbury .
30 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 .
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