Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ? |
| 2 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 3 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 4 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 5 | He said in a Radio France Internationale interview broadcast on the same day that he had won 62.7 per cent of votes in the March 1989 presidential elections and that his opponents were a minority . |
| 6 | Even more gripping than this documentary feature is Apted 's fictional movie based on the same incident , Thunderheart , a tight , concentrated political drama which the director got off the ground thanks to the backing of Robert De Niro . |
| 7 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 8 | Sometimes an elaborate display involving ritual dunging on the same spot ( like dogs peeing on car wheels ) is necessary . |
| 9 | Furthermore , a payment made on the same basis as that in the case of Adams v G K N Sankey Ltd mentioned in Chapter 16 would probably also fall within the second category . |
| 10 | A UK Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded on the same day by saying that it was for Iran to make the first gesture and that the UK would " not accept Iranian intervention in [ its ] internal affairs " . |
| 11 | The Security Council voted on the same day to adopt Resolution 700 issuing guidelines to facilitate implementation of the international arms embargo against Iraq [ see p. 38165 ] . |
| 12 | The Russian Federation Security Council meeting on the same day expressed concern over arms deliveries from Romania to Moldova ( although on May 31 the Moldovan Foreign Ministry had denied Gen. Grachev 's claims that Romania was supplying Moldova with tanks , claiming that only pontoon bridges and trucks were donated ) . |
| 13 | Another law adopted on the same day recognized the principle of press freedom and decreed that the news media should abstain from encouraging intolerance between tribes or races . |
| 14 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
| 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 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 17 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 18 | However , it had welcomed the announcement made on the same day that two other Soviet radar stations , also seen by the USA to violate the ABM treaty , were to be dismantled . |
| 19 | As agriculture became more intensive , with larger amounts of the same crop grown on the same land year after year , farmers came to rely more and more on chemical pesticides . |
| 20 | Another decree approved on the same day authorized the employment of Albanians abroad . |
| 21 | Now , for the first time in the history of medical science , a substance has been isolated about which it is possible to say : ‘ If you base your slimming diet on this food you should shed weight more quickly and easily than on a diet based on the same quantity of any other foods . ’ |
| 22 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 23 | Mark Newall 's brother Roderick , 27 , is in custody in Gibraltar awaiting an extradition hearing on the same charges . |
| 24 | The arrowheads indicate the location of 28S- and 18S rRNA bands in total RNA run on the same gel . |
| 25 | A warrant issued on the same day makes it clear that Buckingham 's authority extended over the duchy of York lordship of Ludlow , not specifically mentioned elsewhere . |
| 26 | A warrant issued on the same day makes it clear that Buckingham 's authority extended over the duchy of York lordship of Ludlow , not specifically mentioned elsewhere . |
| 27 | If the rational expectations hypothesis is correct we should find , provided that we have a large enough sample , that the coefficient estimated on each variable in equation ( 3.3 ) is approximately the same as the coefficient estimated on the same variable in equation ( 3.4 ) ; that is , β 1 should equal γ 1 , β 2 should equal γ 2 , and so on . |
| 28 | A counter-demonstration planned on the same day by the FLN was postponed . |
| 29 | Because of the latter requirement there can not be a double charge to tax on the same income ( s744 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |