Example sentences of "[vb past] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , his victory at Doral was awesome , but he admits he did it with a suspect putter , wielded by a 49-year-old puttee , and a mind that focussed on golf to block out the loss in a fire of his $2,000,000 Florida mansion . |
| 2 | The launch of the project at a sports fair in Southlands focussed on demonstrations , displays and competitions . |
| 3 | Residents fled on foot through the wooded hills . |
| 4 | President Mengistu Haile Mariam , who misruled his country for 14 years , fled on May 21st to Zimbabwe , where his retreat was prepared . |
| 5 | Rock bottom in the premier league are swindon town … the side Horton 's new team beat on wednesday … still only one point but they 're still full of fighting talk at the County Ground … |
| 6 | In the most recent of a series of constitutional amendments [ see also p. 38289 ] , the ruling Bangladesh National Party ( BNP ) proposed on July 16 a bill proposing the holding of a referendum on whether presidential assent was necessary for any law seeking to amend the Constitution . |
| 7 | Saddam Hussein proposed on Aug. 12 that all Middle Eastern occupation issues , or " issues that have been depicted as occupation " , should be resolved according to one set of UN Security Council principles . |
| 8 | He proposed on June 22 that the four allies ' rights and responsibilities should be extended for a period of five years after unification , and that only then would Germany have the sovereign right to conclude international agreements such as a treaty of membership of NATO . |
| 9 | The 21-stone club chairman , reported to police by one of the photographers he assaulted on Monday , was on the rampage once more , threatening to give free transfers to the entire squad whom he blames for the £50,000 Football League fine . |
| 10 | In between , however , he did launch a thunderous drive into the roof of the net after 22 minutes when Iain Dowie helped on keeper Tim Flowers 's clearance . |
| 11 | They bounced on stage , played two numbers with professional skill and disappeared . |
| 12 | In fact , there should have been no doubt about the larva that dined on Robin Prytherch , natural history film-maker and ornithologist . |
| 13 | They dined on lobster and barbecued kebabs , sitting Arab-style , cross-legged on the floor . |
| 14 | After presiding over his first Cabinet meeting Moore promised on Sept. 10 that his government would take immediate steps to avert the $NZ2,500 million budget deficit forecast for 1991-92 . |
| 15 | In 1922 , Collins promised on behalf of the Labour Party that ‘ all that can be done under the Maternity and Child Welfare Acts in the way of helping necessitous , and expectant and nursing mothers , and caring for young children would have our support ’ ( Election leaflet 1922 ) . |
| 16 | 3038 … 3040 Logged on user is not an assessor of DC : |
| 17 | 3050 Logged on user is not the associated user of all DCs |
| 18 | 3059 Logged on user is not the manager of package : |
| 19 | 3142,3150 Logged on user does not have access to module : |
| 20 | The fact that the employer 's turnover ( and ultimate viability ) is to a large extent periled on supply contracts entered into because of formal tying agreements or informal ‘ understandings ’ does not augur well for the employee 's prospects unless he can show that the patent influenced the customer to buy on the scale which he did . |
| 21 | George said that if she put in more the whole lot would be gone before the curtain rose on Act Two . |
| 22 | At Vladivostok , the station which rose on Nicholas 's foundation stone was a baleful prison-like building with two blocks linked by a single-storey entrance range . |
| 23 | Two spots of colour rose on Nicolo 's cheeks . |
| 24 | When the sun rose on Cheddar Cliffs — as the gorge was invariably called — he found a scene which justified superlatives , and which travellers had long regarded as among the most remarkable natural sights in lowland Britain . |
| 25 | Thus between 1966 and 1976 net overseas earnings rose on average by 5.3 times as against 2.3 times for manufacturing . |
| 26 | During the second half of the century the Empire 's population rose on average 1.5 per cent a year , the total soaring from 74 million at Emancipation in 1861 to 126 million in 1897 . |
| 27 | I can tell my hon. Friend that pensioners ' incomes from occupational pensions — for those who have them — rose on average from £13.90 a week in 1979 to £27.70 in 1988 . |
| 28 | If foreign prices rose on average by 4 per cent and UK prices rose by 10 per cent , how much would the pound have to depreciate ? |
| 29 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 30 | In 1965 consumer prices rose on average by 3 per cent a year in the ACCs . |