Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] on [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were sent to spend their fourth night in a hotel after failing to agree verdicts on the seven other accused at the end of a trial which has lasted nearly five months . |
| 2 | to provide practice on a real online system using a subset of a database or several databases ; |
| 3 | Retired Rossendale headmaster Robin Martin 's book although aimed at and from a predominantly ‘ hiker and leisure ’ publishing company , contains more than enough to demand space on the active light railway enthusiast 's bookshelf . |
| 4 | It was to launch Pople on a brilliant international career . |
| 5 | SURVEY ( DEMOGRAPHIC ) — An inquiry that employs statistical data collecting and processing operations to provide information on a particular demographic subject ( e.g. fertility or human reproductive behaviour ) or on several topics ( multi-purpose survey ) . |
| 6 | Much was expected of Inzamam ul Haq after his World Cup performance , but he struggled to find form on the slow English pitches . |
| 7 | TV viewers worldwide watched in horror as hated tinpot dictator Brigadier Joshua Gqozo ordered his troops to open fire on an African National Congress protest march against his leadership of black homeland Ciskei . |
| 8 | On May 23 the head of the Soviet delegation at the Disarmament Conference welcomed Bush 's offer , saying that it opened the way for the Conference to reach agreement on a comprehensive chemical weapons ban before 1992 . |
| 9 | After their previous performances against Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday , it was surprising to see Coventry on the defensive early in the game as County went close through Williams , Wilson and Devlin . |
| 10 | All this alarms the non-Kurdish Iraqi opposition ( although the Kurdish package is said to include promises on a free multi-party system ) . |
| 11 | The Partnership had helped to stabilize conditions in the inner city , partly as a result of encouraging a range of organizations to focus attention on the older urban core . |
| 12 | I can announce today , a new scheme of the Know How Fund on top of the ordinary British Council programme to help Poland on the ambitious Polish aim of achieving 20,000 new English language teachers by the year 2,000 , and as a contribution ; as a help , an immediate help to that scheme er we ; the Know How Fund will provide on top of the British Council programme £400,000 for the teacher training colleges in Poland . |
| 13 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 14 | Returning to 1847 , Boole invented another sort of algebra , since called Boolean algebra in order to put logic on a symbolic mathematical basis . |
| 15 | Now the family are appealing for help to put pressure on the French legal system to end their agonising ordeal . |
| 16 | The championship race has suddenly become wide open and Middlesbrough are poised to put pressure on the three leading teams . |
| 17 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 18 | VenturCom 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support embedded X-Windows , reportedly a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed NFS on a diskless single-board computer via E-NFS . |
| 19 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 20 | Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , was among Government members forced to delay foreign trips for a crucial attempt to speed progress on the troubled European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 21 | The problem arose because the old turf track has been closed to allow work on a new all-weather circuit . |
| 22 | Sample surveys , carried out in collaboration with research partners in each country , are designed to gather information on the principal structural features of the new forms of business organisation . |
| 23 | The intention was to assist drivers on the front few rows , who can spend up to 90 seconds waiting for the rest of the grid to form . |
| 24 | Jeff Jaye with ‘ I know it 's difficult to get the wood , Mr Noah , but can you imagine the cost of a rotomoulded Ark ? ’ and Simon Dawson with ‘ Shaun Baker comes out of retirement to offer advice on the last great waterfall . ’ |
| 25 | Organisers say it is a chance for landlords to get information on the new 20-year leases . |
| 26 | He called a meeting of senior Cabinet members and energy ministers in an attempt to get agreement on the proposed white paper on energy , which has been delayed for more than two months . |
| 27 | Er , a particular concern at the time of writing the report was the position concerning the long outstanding proposals to develop to redevelop the two sites in Harlow erm to date we have no information from the county , er , there was scheduled to be erm , the meeting due to take place on the twenty second of September but the county er cancelled that meeting so it 's impossible at this stage to give any further comment on that erm although I believe that matter 's being taken up . |
| 28 | Last month it agreed to spend £194.2m on the US-based ABS cheque-printing business . |
| 29 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 30 | In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . |