Example sentences of "[noun prp] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rugby Union : Park to face the Bath backlash : Barrie Fairall on today 's rugby union action |
| 2 | Perhaps a certain sensitivity on this question inspired his particularly detailed instructions to Orjonikidze on how the Georgians were to be treated ; the intelligentsia were to be offered particular concessions , and the Mensheviks to be invited to participate — ‘ avoid any mechanism copying the Russian pattern … bigger concessions to all the petty bourgeois elements ’ . |
| 3 | Mrs T on why she supported Bush Death from Above . |
| 4 | Louis Gerstner received a lesson on Friday on just how tough it will be to lead IBM Corp in the midst of its economic woes , as he was showered with difficult questions about his qualifications to lead a computer company , Dow Jones & Co reports : Gerstner was also asked to explain why he left RJR to lead IBM — ‘ I thought this was an extraordinary opportunity , ’ he said , and asked if he felt he had completed his job at RJR , Gerstner responded ‘ I do n't think the job is ever finished as chief of a large company . ’ |
| 5 | Get Sue on there . |
| 6 | He sent Richard on ahead while he travelled south through Berry , where once again his eldest son was making heavy weather of the task assigned to him . |
| 7 | Leonard keeps more money than friends in a farce of fistic folly John Rodda in Las Vegas on how the battle between two greats ended as a sad stalemate . |
| 8 | Football : McLean in looting mission : Don Lindsay on today 's Scottish programme |
| 9 | You would never guess it , she is so modest , but she knows more than anyone else in England on how the eighteenth century reader regarded Scandinavia … . |
| 10 | The Anglo-American special relationship , on the other hand , is as alive as ever , and has made it possible for us to buy advanced US weapon systems like Polaris and Trident on very favourable terms . |
| 11 | With a much smaller baseload of night traffic it was no longer viable to retain separate services to Scotland on both the East and West Coast routes . |
| 12 | Khrushchev saw no objection to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from a non-Sovietized country as a part of a compromise agreement and he overruled Molotov on both Austria and Porkkala . |
| 13 | Will the Leader of the House arrange for a statement by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on yesterday 's meeting of the Anglo-Irish intergovernmental conference , especially in the light of the Prime Minister 's failure to respond to the second part of the question that was asked by the hon. Member for Antrim , East ( Mr. Beggs ) ? |
| 14 | The CSCE would consult with the UN on how individuals could be brought to trial for war crimes committed in the area [ see p. 39240 for US Secretary of State 's Dec. 14 proposal for war crimes prosecutions ] . |
| 15 | Our Mexico correspondent reports from Merida on how one Mexican state plans to prosper from free trade with the United States |
| 16 | Langbaurgh 's mountain bike series concludes in Guisborough Woods on tomorrow with registration from 8.30am on the day . |
| 17 | Another North-Easterner on tonight 's bill , the last stage before the finals at the Royal Albert Hall on May 6 , is Sunderland flyweight Steve Parry . |
| 18 | Adam Sweeting on why Prince 's dancing sensation is aiming for stardom-without him Cat goes for the cream . |
| 19 | The Nottinghamshire show is the 6th and 7th and as most of you know now we 're going to build the equivalent of Coronation Street on quite a large area spanning a hundred years of er of burglary , that that 's the theme . |
| 20 | Having said farewell to Susan , the Doctor has moved the TARDIS on again , bringing it to rest in a cave somewhere on the planet Dido . |
| 21 | At the southernmost tip of the Island — which was n't an island at all , being surrounded by the Thames on only three sides — a little strip of greenery had been preserved as a public park . |
| 22 | Jim McClellan on why Hollywood went spiritual |
| 23 | It has a top speed of 186mph and can go from London to Monte Carlo on just one tank of fuel . |
| 24 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 25 | The invisible contribution of transport David Robinson on how transport helps the balance of payments |
| 26 | The village is surrounded by vines , but it is those behind Sacy on steeply climbing , northeast-facing slopes leading up to the Bois de la Fosse which are the most favourably located . |
| 27 | They were present at all subsequent coronations until that of King Charles II at Scone on Ne'er Day 1651 — the last coronation at Scone and the last in Scotland . |
| 28 | It is believed that Lady Thatcher is considering advising Philip Morris on only its non-tobacco interests after public outcry . |
| 29 | The EX interfaces are available for NetWare on either Ethernet or Token Ring networks and they are compatible with all Hewlett printers and plotters with parallel ports . |
| 30 | Since the signing of the 1979 peace treaty , the US has sought to keep the military assistance component of its large foreign aid programme to Egypt and Israel on roughly equal terms . |