Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November Moscow agreed on United Nations monitoring on both sides of the Afghan border . |
| 2 | Costa Rica and Panama agreed on ecological protection measures for their joint border areas . |
| 3 | ‘ The Graces dwelt on ev'ry Limb : |
| 4 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 5 | Keynes agreed on 13 February 1946 that overseas commitments would be the main casualty without the American loan . |
| 6 | CW reported on successful installation of software on new Admin file server . |
| 7 | Then , from the late 1960s , most LEAs reorganized on comprehensive lines . |
| 8 | President Gorbachev claimed on Soviet television to have found many supporters of perestroika in SED . |
| 9 | [ A critical article by Volker Gebhardt appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 4 March . ] |
| 10 | Thus in February 1977 the opposition to Raybestos developed on two fronts : in Ovens against the factory , in Ringaskiddy against the dump . |
| 11 | Ballyearl finished on 385 points with North on 362 , Magherafelt 318 , Windsor 287 , UUJ 288 and Civil Service 280 . |
| 12 | Herle served on various missions , as envoy to Hamburg , the Netherlands , Cologne , Emden , and Utrecht . |
| 13 | In the 1960s , an astronomer named Gerald Hawkins worked on another idea . |
| 14 | Bernice munched on another fibreburger , wiping away the unpleasantly spicy taste with more of the pink drink . |
| 15 | Twice in the six weeks before the referendum President Mikhail Gorbachev went on nationwide television and radio to appeal for a " yes " vote . |
| 16 | Then , unhappily , Mrs. Dennis died on 24 February 1983 . |
| 17 | THE Italian writer Primo Levi died on 11 April 1987 , to the dismay of his readers . |
| 18 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 19 | Surcharge put on flexible friends . |
| 20 | Sgt. Deacon left on 13 May for Mersa Matruh in Hurricane V7771 , the same aircraft he had flown to the island on 29 January . |
| 21 | All would be revealed , Mr Gorbachev said on national television , for the Soviet people had a right to know . |
| 22 | But eight years before Roberts sat on that hilltop above the city , there were only 24,000 Jews living in Palestine . |
| 23 | His love of Oscar Wilde and James Dean verged on absolute fanaticism . |
| 24 | Another Epsom first came when Japanese Champion Yokio Okabe scored on Shrewd Partner . |
| 25 | ‘ RUSSIA ATTACKED ON 1,8000 MILE FRONT ’ , screamed the headlines . |
| 26 | Muccio recommended on 1 April 1950 that Rhee be warned that autocratic actions could adversely affect relations with Washington . |
| 27 | The expression ‘ cased in the unfeeling armour of old time ’ exactly represents the impression Wordsworth made on certain observers at a later date ( see Chapter I , p. 42 ) . |
| 28 | Ethel knelt on one knee while Sid stuck his banderillas in her . |
| 29 | Plutarch noted that he and his contemporary Scipio Nasica disagreed on certain details of the battle of Pydna ( Aem . |
| 30 | Lt Col W Yolland reported on this request to the Board of Trade , for which he was an Inspector of Railways , on 25th December 1865 . |