Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co is working with Micro Resources Inc to offer the latter 's applications and service for the telecommunications industry on the HP 9000 Unix family . |
| 2 | As the particles impact on the substrate being sprayed they normally become flattened as they rapidly cool , creating a laminated microstructure as shown in ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 3 | After the Dambusters raid on the Mona and Ida dams the photo- reconnaissance pilots were despatched to the dangerous airspace above them to assess the success of the mission . |
| 4 | THE CENTREPIECE OF THE games room on the ground floor of the house used to be a full-size snooker table . |
| 5 | Phone back a couple of hours later to report that ooh-er , there seems to have been a copy of the Forms virus on the disk you were using , thus leaving said Editor 's hard disk neither healthy nor safe . |
| 6 | Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent |
| 7 | When we were watching the end of the film of Brahms 's First Symphony which you 've been editing , I noticed you giving a very accurate two-handed performance of the timpani part on the table in front of you . |
| 8 | In the same way , criticisms of the Monopolies Commission on the grounds that perceived monopoly welfare losses are low are misplaced ; what matters is what would transpire in the Commission 's absence . |
| 9 | In 1854 the Pease family donated money towards the building of the Mechanics Institute on the condition that the Society could rent a room inside . |
| 10 | Earlier cases had tended to defer to the judgment of the police officer on the spot without setting out an objective definition to which he or she was required to adhere . |
| 11 | The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court . |
| 12 | A reform of the PES system on the same lines is perfectly feasible . |
| 13 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 14 | Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets . |
| 15 | ‘ I am very pleased at the progress made and hope the concept of a watersports centre on the Lagan becomes a reality in the near future , ’ he said . |
| 16 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 17 | If you would find it easier to work with the doors flat on the floor , they can easily be unscrewed and replaced later . |
| 18 | States which did not consider a customs union to be necessary could conclude agreements with the customs union on a free-trade zone . |
| 19 | Imports fell by 8 per cent ; the trade surplus reached US$976 million , with a balance-of-payments surplus on the current account of $389 million . |
| 20 | I DID my National Service with a Guards regiment on the East German border in 1948 — but there was still some fraternisation with the Russians , usually in the bar at some remote border village . |
| 21 | This is the latest in a series of conflicts over the Baltic environment , including an escape of effluent from the chemicals complex on the river Dvina which poisoned large numbers of fish . |
| 22 | The horses are the most feared weapon in the police armoury on the picket line and they are very effective . |
| 23 | She had asked Mr Hedley to look in the police car on the verge . |
| 24 | Labour is accusing Mrs Thatcher of dodging a discussion on Britain 's entry into the Euro Monetary System ; they say she 's chosen to avoid speaking in a Commons debate on the issue because she 's humiliated by the U-turn entry has meant for her . |
| 25 | Joyce went across to speak to the police officer on the man 's behalf and , as he did so , was jostled by a heckler whom he disposed of with ‘ a tap on the head ’ . |
| 26 | Now everyone hopes the curtain is opening at the Roses Theatre on a successful and prosperous future . |
| 27 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |
| 28 | On May 18 a Byelorussian policeman was shot dead by Lithuanian personnel at a customs post on the Byelorussia-Lithuania border . |
| 29 | These decisions will be considered by the Personnel Committee on the 13 October and further discussions with NALGO will follow . |
| 30 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |