Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 2 | It is a peculiarly appropriate irony that this should be the only poem in this group with the Our/ We form , establishing on the grammatical plane a congruence with the semantic one : seen from the outside , held up for inspection , they are united — at the level of mutual deception . |
| 3 | Residence at the Tuileries imposed on the Imperial family a pattern of life in which rare moments of private relaxation alternated with the exhausting obligations of public ceremonial . |
| 4 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 5 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 6 | But the most ambitious financial venture is a project to build on the Catalan coast a holiday resort called Cosmo Dali , complete with a yacht harbour and leisure park . |
| 7 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
| 8 | ‘ This whole analysis will derive from one simple proposition , namely that the distinguishing characteristic of adjudication lies in the fact that it confers on the affected party a peculiar form of participation in the decision , that of presenting proofs and reasoned arguments for a decision in his favour . |
| 9 | It involves on the one hand an examination of the changing local demand for labour , and on the other an examination of the effects of unemployment on , and the response of , local voluntary associations . |
| 10 | you know you maybe err on the safe side a bit but as you say even if it 's erm well thirty hours would be getting |
| 11 | This philosophy finds expression in some recent social thought and has been most notably promulgated in the area of social services , producing on the far right a philosophy of welfare in which the care of family members is increasingly seen as a private problem , to be undertaken using family resources only , and to be underpinned only in extreme circumstances by a residual network of statutory services . |
| 12 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 13 | To the readers of 1850 it represented on the one hand a great Romantic apologia , though the stress on the French Revolution would not have pleased ; on the other hand it could be seen as specifically a mid-Victorian poem , contemporary with the work of Tennyson , George Eliot and Matthew Arnold . |
| 14 | If the lease is to be registered at HM Land Registry and the demised property is part only of a building , then unless the land can be accurately identified on the General Map a plan must be provided ( Land Registration Rules 1925 , r54 ) . |
| 15 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
| 16 | It comes on the same day a consortium , including Central , took financial control of ITV 's national news service , ITN . |
| 17 | Ironically the incident comes on the same day a new motor project for youngsters was launched two miles away in Horspath by motor racing star … |
| 18 | The statement prompted on the following day a message from UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd expressing surprise at its content . |
| 19 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 20 | The State Council and the Council of Ministers , acting upon a recommendation made by the central committee of the ruling Bulgarian Communist party ( BCP ) on Dec. 29 , had published on the same day a joint resolution " condemning all actions which curtail the right to a free choice of name , to freedom of religion , and also the right of everyone — while formally recognizing and using the Bulgarian language as the official language — to speak other languages in their day-to-day communication and to observe their customs " . |