Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 2 | And McAvennie , 32 , who laid on Dalian Atkinson 's Villa goal to rock the Saints , says : ‘ Ron had better sign me before I fade away completely . |
| 3 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 4 | There were very strong objections from one landowner and frontager and much pressure was brought to bear on him by both the company and the Rural District Council , who announced on 9 September that he had accepted their conditions . |
| 5 | Superior qualifications were , indeed , by no means a guarantee of preferment , on the testimony of David Scott himself , who admitted on another occasion that ‘ there was some altercation about the superior qualifications of the other candidates , but on my shewing the chairman the anxiety I had to provide for your friend , with his assistance I carried it ’ . |
| 6 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 7 | A rapist who preyed on blonde women is starting a life sentence for the murder of Austrailian heiress Janie Shepherd 13 years ago . |
| 8 | Many will be the writers who composed on early Amstrads , and how will we ensure that their working discs , successors to the invaluable rough note-books and diaries of writers like W H Auden and Graham Greene or campaigners like Marie Stopes , which we already possess , can be used as readily by future generations of scholars ? |
| 9 | Two other grandmothers who came on regular visits , one ‘ very generous ’ and the other an eloquent ‘ martinet ’ , died too soon to leave more than a dim recollection . ’ |
| 10 | They were assisted by the referee , Clive Norling , who added on nine minutes ' injury time despite the lack of an injury stoppage worth the name . |
| 11 | ‘ The threats were sufficiently serious to involve security forces who advised on necessary precautions , ’ he added . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Under normal circumstances claims for compensation would only be considered from people who acted on incorrect advice from my people . |
| 13 | The Harbour Bookshop was also among those who commented on increased competition from ‘ non-traditional ’ outlets . |
| 14 | There were many who commented on improved digestion . |
| 15 | The Corporation protested to the Board of Trade , who replied on 27 April , ‘ Although we disagree with your views , we will not press for a junction with Station Road . |
| 16 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 17 | She was followed by Vera 's father who arrived on 1 September . |
| 18 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 19 | It was Geoffrey Howe , I am told , who knocked on one door while canvassing at a by-election in Epping , to be greeted by a tiny , wrinkled old lady rushing at him with arms outstretched : ‘ Oh Geoffrey at last I 've met you , my fluffy , cuddly little teddy bear ! ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless we are generally satisfied that both committees , that 's the English and the Welsh committees , have done a thorough job and on behalf of my colleagues I would certainly like to pay tribute to those who served on those committees who I believe discharged their responsibilities with great professionalism in circumstances made unnecessarily difficult by ministerial dithering and delay . |
| 21 | Let us pray for all who ha who served on this airfield during the Second World War and the relatives of those who died . |
| 22 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |
| 23 | In Bristol in 1787 the mortality rate among the 2,838 men who signed on 203 voyages during the year was some 4.5 per cent , with higher than average rates on voyages to the tropical Africa and the West Indies . |
| 24 | They did not convey the threat which Mr Smith posed to average earners trying to become higher earners , and to low earners who relied on higher earners for work . |
| 25 | Before the 16th century , virtually the only people concerned with the past were the medieval chroniclers who relied on written records and oral traditions . |
| 26 | Another problem for the listener who relied on Zambian language bulletins was the fact that much of the translation was of a very low standard . |
| 27 | The question whether certain moneys had been held by the respondent in the relevant capacity was referred under section 15 of the Act to the minister , who decided on 18 September 1958 that it was . |
| 28 | This requires diagnostic skills normally associated with doctors , but it has long been suspected that this responsibility is generally left entirely to the DN , so this section begins with an analysis of DN responses to the question : ‘ Who decided on current treatment ? ’ before examining that treatment . |
| 29 | To voters who had lost their party moorings , who focused on political matters only spasmodically and relied on fleeting impressions derived from television , Ronald Reagan proved to have exceptional appeal . |
| 30 | An eerie nocturnal predator who flew on silent wings , feared throughout the world as a supernatural bird of ill-omen . |