Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate counterattack is simple : Has the building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 2 | The usual test applies : Has the freehold building been offered for sale on the open market ? |
| 3 | Boeing 's US exports are based in part on the supply of components from Canada , Britain , Japan and elsewhere . |
| 4 | The road signs ( France is the only country I know where drivers are warned about beetroot on the road : BETTERAVES , I once saw in a red warning triangle , with a picture of a car slipping out of control ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Not enough funds are going into research on brain tumours in both adults and children . ’ |
| 6 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 7 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 8 | It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident . |
| 9 | Following the lifting of martial law and its reporting restrictions on Jan. 11 , 1990 , new regulations for foreign journalists were brought into effect on Jan. 19 . |
| 10 | Daniel Omara Atubu : aged 44 , a member of the Democratic Party ( DP ) and Minister of State for Foreign and Regional Affairs , he and 17 other prominent citizens from northern Uganda were charged with treason on 7 May 1991 . |
| 11 | The Mam I- Sfa NI , Mam I- Sau 3A and Xba I- Pvu II deoP2 fragments were purified by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels after labelling of the 5'-end of the Mam I site with polynucleotide kinase in the presence of γ- 32 P-ATP and the 3'-end of the Xba I site with Klenow fragment in the presence of α- 32 P-dCTP. 0.8 nM of the labelled fragments and various concentrations ( indicated in the Legend in Fig. 3 ) of CytR or CRP were incubated in binding buffer ( 10 mM Tris HCl ( pH 7.8 ) , 50 mM KCl , 1 mM EDTA , 50 µg/ml acetylated bovine serum albumine , 1 mM dithiothreitol , 0.05 % Nonidet-P40 ) containing 20 µg/ml competitor DNA ( pGEM4 obtained from Promega ) for 30 min. at 37°C in a total volume of 10 µl ( 6 ) . |
| 12 | The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor . |
| 13 | Female subjects were tested for pregnancy on the morning of the trial . |
| 14 | A Court ring is rounded for comfort on the inside as well as the outside with across section forming an oval . |
| 15 | To record this guide-track , you set the tape to a start-mark and the tape recorder to record-pause ; the video tape is set on play-pause on the first frame of picture . |
| 16 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 17 | Behind , beneath and about him are the oldest and dearest friends of the cause — whilst a liberated slave , now a delegate , is looking up to Clarkson with deep interest , and the hand of friendship is resting with affection on his arm , in fellowship and protection . |
| 18 | His concern for religion was shown by service on the commission for the propagation of the gospel in Wales ( where he became a JP ) and by his part in petitions for toleration , which no doubt reinforced contacts with Oliver Cromwell . |
| 19 | Each experiment was performed in duplicate on each dog . |
| 20 | As soon as Gorbachev was reinstated as President on Aug. 21 , he was compelled by the increase in Yeltsin 's political standing and the fact that most state bodies were at least partially compromised in the coup attempt to acknowledge the need for a new state structure ; the majority of the republics proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union , and fundamental reforms began of the government and the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 21 | The prosecution 's case against Gotti was hampered by reliance on evidence based on inconclusive and largely inaudible tape recordings , and by the reluctance of witnesses to testify against him . |
| 22 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 23 | After denaturation of the recombinant proteins in the presence of 7M urea and renaturation by extensive dialysis against buffer 2 , the extract was purified by chromatography on Q-Sepharose as described ( 17 ) and the resulting TFIIA fraction was assayed for its function in transcription assays . |
| 24 | A car was destroyed by fire on open ground at Chippenham Road , Easterside , Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | The new car was delivered by road on 17 April 1984 , being weighed en route at the Whitbread Brewery at Samlesbury , near Preston . |
| 26 | General advice on making squares was offered with stress on making the limits and form of a square clear , making the traffic conform to decorative town planning and cutting down the space dedicated to vehicles in favour of giving additional tracks or spaces for other purposes , even if these sometimes have to be driven over . |
| 27 | The All Blacks are searching for perfection on the pitch and the physical strength and skill of their forwards leaves you with the sense that they are not far from attaining that dream . |
| 28 | He remained on trial after jobless Smith and student Winter were cleared of involvement on Tuesday . |
| 29 | Two treaties on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Germany and transitional measures for the withdrawal were approved in principle on the same date and ratified on April 2 . |
| 30 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |