Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Let us pray for all who ha who served on this airfield during the Second World War and the relatives of those who died . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The following squadrons are known to have taken part in this raid , 7 , 15 , 35 , 75 , 101 , 103 , 115 , 156 , 166 , 460 and 622 , and if anyone who flew on this operation with any of the listed squadrons have any details of the raid , I would like to hear from them . |
| 8 | There 's only so much that anybody 's brain can handle at any one time so let's just do a little experiment because there was a chap called George Miller an American psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain , how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time . |
| 9 | It is hoped that the reader will participate to some extent in this activity by sharing the perspective of the workshop team who worked on this text . |
| 10 | Faced with such evidence , Marc Thompson — an IMS research fellow who worked on both studies — believes that the Department of Health should tone down its enthusiasm for PRP in the health service , despite the Citizens ' Charter pledge to introduce merit pay into the public sector . |
| 11 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 12 | that you could then discuss in an appraisal what level , and you would have the record system to actually say , Well you 've been on you know , the employment officers who went on that marketing course , |
| 13 | In other words , it was a kinswoman of the Bernician royal family , but one with strong Deiran connections , who interceded on this occasion for Wilfrid . |
| 14 | A certain Mr Tomlinson was in trouble ‘ having several times played in the upper part of the links with some gentleman who was not a member of the Club and who had on each occasion omitted to pay his green fee ’ ( at this time 2s. 6d . ) . |
| 15 | It 's like , girls who had on that side , and girls who had n't on that side , — can I join , kind of thing . |
| 16 | In her girls ' school , it was a bit like joining a club — " girls who had on this side , and girls who had n't on that side " . |
| 17 | There followed individual portraits of Bobby ( Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool ) , Eric ( Royal Albert Museum , Exeter ) , Oska , who sat on several occasions , as well as one of Judith Hollman ( Colour Plate VIII ) . |