Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she spoke to Guitarist back in 1988 , Jennifer described how landing the job as guitar player on one of the largest tours ever was a dream come true ; how did it feel to be asked back this time ? |
| 2 | These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash . |
| 3 | AN UNEASY truce was holding yesterday after fights erupted between cockle pickers on a West Wales beach . |
| 4 | Andrew and John were recruited with the objective of being prepared for Shell work on the Brent contract , and have systematically followed a route of planned training , to work for Wood Group Engineering Contractors on a Shell site and installation . |
| 5 | Among the leading figures of Republican Spain to conclude that sooner or later defeat was unavoidable were the President , Azaña , and Prieto ; in April 1938 the latter , following a Communist-orchestrated campaign , was ejected from his post as Defence Minister on grounds of ‘ defeatism ’ . |
| 6 | Pawar was eventually sworn in as Defence Minister on June 26 after being replaced the previous day as Chief Minister of Maharashtra by Sudhakarrao Naik . |
| 7 | Gerhard Stoltenberg , 63 , resigned as Defence Minister on March 31 . |
| 8 | The fire escape on the first floor of Kilbreck House had been removed during building work on an extension . |
| 9 | SunVision functions will be offered as AVS modules and as portable libraries for building applications on Unix workstations which support AVS . |
| 10 | But Coun Olwen Jones , in a letter to the council , supported the quarry company 's application so that it would have the flexibility to compete for contract work on the A55 . |
| 11 | The swans that we are concerned about build ships on the River Tyne . |
| 12 | Most income , however , counts and you will be assessed for income tax on : your pension , interest you receive from most types of savings , dividends from investments , any earnings ( even if these are only from casual work ) plus rent from any lodgers , if the amount you receive exceeds £3,250 a year . |
| 13 | Having examined the parliamentary history of sections 61 and 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , it was held that the parliamentary intention was that in-house benefits should be assessed for income tax on the basis of marginal costs to the employer and not as a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; that this effect applied to the education of the children of teachers who were employees ; and that section 63 of the 1976 Act should be construed accordingly . |
| 14 | The changes include new arrangements for funding people on benefits in private residential care and nursing homes . |
| 15 | The change of chip is largely a political move , since the CPU is used mostly for housekeeping matters on an Auspex server , the main work is carried out through a series of custom and ASIC chips handling Ethernet , File and Storage processing . |
| 16 | The results will then be used to help compile a handbook for woodland managers on how to manage their woods in a dormouse-friendly way . |
| 17 | He , too , will have had a chance to study the fourth report of the Committee for Monitoring Agreements on Tobacco Advertising and Sponsorship , several paragraphs of which deal with the targeting of tobacco advertising at young people . |
| 18 | Sadly , the preface to the report , the covering letter from Mr. John Belloch , chairman of the Committee for Monitoring Agreements on Tobacco Advertising and Sponsorship , shows that the increase in the number of breaches in the past year has risen by 35 per cent . |
| 19 | Test centres exist in other major cities as well , consequently the total figures for TOEFL candidates on a national basis would be far higher . |
| 20 | Her body lay at the rest in the chapel downstairs , the light filtering in through lancet windows on her oak coffin and the dark-stained , hand-carved pews . |
| 21 | Practices are actually in danger of going bankrupt through computer errors on the part of the administrators . ’ |
| 22 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |
| 23 | With twenty-six years experience in the business , Robert Maxwell joined Douglas Reyburn in March as dyehouse supervisor on the nightshift . |
| 24 | Several spectroscopic techniques have been used to examine this effect for CO adsorption on single-crystal metal surfaces , but bond energy changes can only be inferred indirectly from these techniques . |
| 25 | IBM Corp has been sued by E-Systems Inc , which alleges that it broke a contract for electronics work on an Air Force aircraft : according to the Dallas Morning News , E-Systems is seeking $65m in damages from IBM ; the dispute involves the Talon Combat II aircraft , which IBM is building with Lockheed Corp ; E-Systems signed a 1988 agreement to integrate and install equipment on the plane as an IBM subcontractor . |
| 26 | We now have at Lancaster a team of researchers , working in the Unit for Computer Research on the English Language ( UCREL ) , of which ( of the Computing Department ) and I are joint founders and directors . |
| 27 | I told the European Council that , if such occasions did arise , we should consider the case for majority voting on its merits . |
| 28 | We are disappointed that he left Leeds , but I 'm not sure that I would have regarded 2.75 million as money well-spent on a player of his type . |
| 29 | Mellor , 43 , addressed the Commons to explain why he quit as Heritage Secretary on Thursday . |
| 30 | I probably spent about $100,000 on trying to get documents out through the act , and I 'd hate to do a value for money survey on what I got . ’ |