Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to the lion safari park on the outskirts of Auckland , driving through a series of metal gates , along dirt tracks and rough green land . |
| 2 | Now British Waterways fishing experts are to investigate the deaths at West Drayton on the outskirts of West London . |
| 3 | Even after the RICS rules on the methods of carrying on business are further relaxed , partnership may continue to be the normal form . |
| 4 | The National Union of Teachers fears that , because of its divisive potential , opting out will considerably weaken the educational system : ‘ What is proposed is really a means of reintroducing in a covert manner an elitist and centrally controlled system of direct grant schools on the lines of the grammar schools under the guise of increasing parental choice ’ . |
| 5 | Using the name DJ Ox he would play anywhere and everywhere , inspired by 1980 's ground-breaking ‘ Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel ’ . |
| 6 | The 1977 Windscale Inquiry focused the minds of both the public and opposition groups on the dangers of reprocessing . |
| 7 | On June 30 the commander of the Fatah militias in southern Lebanon , Anwar Madi , was shot dead in an ambush by two men as he drove from Sidon to his office in the Ain Helweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the town . |
| 8 | What is now required is a large scale , well co-ordinated research programme on the products from all known kilns , many of which have been excavated but never published . |
| 9 | Small scale production has been recorded from South-west England on the fringes of the main mining districts , sometimes with gold , especially in the Wadebridge-Port Isaac area of north Cornwall where it is associated with Devonian spilitic pillow lavas ( Edwards , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | The Office of Fair Trading brought a case against the Stock Exchange on the grounds of restrictive practice . |
| 11 | Thus the scarce research work on the effects of participation on effectiveness is further limited by its inability clearly to define ( and to measure ) what it is studying . |
| 12 | Some of the queue was syphoning off into a road signposted for Algar Seco , a bizarre coastal rock formation on the outskirts of the village , while other vehicles were following the one-way system and looping in and out of the square . |
| 13 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 14 | Moroccan air force attacks on the oases of Bir Lahlou , Mijic and Aguenit were reported , and Polisario claimed that thousands of nomads had been forced to take refuge in the desert . |
| 15 | There is nothing exceptional in this : it merely reinforces earlier Library Association statements on the responsibilities of the professional librarian with regard to censorship . |
| 16 | Already information is being collected by a study group on the children of up to 100,000 past and present employees at nuclear plants across the country . |
| 17 | Cosford is a Royal Air Force station on the fringes of the wild Wenlock Edge . |
| 18 | The Anglian Water Authority has provided facilities for walking , picnicking and car parking on the margins of the lake , where views of the water and the very fine surroundings landscape can be enjoyed . |
| 19 | The badly beaten bodies of Bertil Whinberg , chair of the Building Workers ' Union and a member of the executive of Sweden 's ruling Social Democratic Labour Party , and Ove Frederiksson , head of the Wood Industry Worker 's Union , were found in a gravel pit on the outskirts of the city . |
| 20 | Some support for the link between offending and perceptions of the justice of unemployment is suggested by the research evidence on the connections of income inequality and crime . |
| 21 | Cassie touched the hairbrushes and traced the silver J.E.L. on the backs with her finger . |
| 22 | Investigators believed that the conversations were different and intercepted as Mr Gilbey used his car phone on the outskirts of Oxford to call Diana at Sandringham . |
| 23 | Strategic thinking should focus a practice area on the needs of its clients , what it does best ( and why ) and the flexibility it will need to respond to new opportunities . |
| 24 | By now the Jones ' had moved to Plaistow Grove , Sundridge Park , Bromley , a small leafy dormitory area on the outskirts of London . |
| 25 | Settlement was concentrated in fishing villages on the tributaries of the Snake , Clearwater and Salmon Rivers . |
| 26 | We wanted to do a research project on the reasons for the low take-up of Health Clinics and Health Services by Asian women . |
| 27 | The driver of the other car was killed instantaneously — a Mrs Mayo from California who was in England doing some research project on the novels of Anthony Trollope . |
| 28 | Horse races on the sands of Leith have been recorded as early as 1504 but were not properly organized until 1665 , when the town council took charge . |
| 29 | MBA 1992–1993 Programme students on the steps of the new Pathfoot Extension . |
| 30 | And rare microlepidoptera feed on the roots of tansy , or mine the leaves of fat-hen . |