Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reynolds held talks with leading politicians on Feb. 19 , in an attempt to find cross-party agreement on the case , but made it clear that a referendum to dilute the constitutional clause on abortion would be avoided if possible . |
| 2 | However , junior officers upholding the sanctity of Japan 's rural heritage led the physical attack on politicians and zaibatsu leaders in a series of assassinations . |
| 3 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 4 | PS Taped the English Soccer on ‘ Sports CHannel Ohio ’ last night and got up at 6:15 to watch the highlights before going to work . |
| 5 | Dr Shankar admitted he did not give Alison a drug to counteract the possible effect on her heart . |
| 6 | Having seen Freddie Kurz ‘ guest ’ successfully for the Palace during the War seasons of 1944–46 , including scoring a hat-trick on his Palace debut against Queens Park Rangers on 28 August 1944 ( 7–4 ) , Palace supporters of the period petitioned the Board to secure the free-scoring centre-forward on a permanent basis . |
| 7 | The ceasefire with Iran in September 1988 was taken as an opportunity to concentrate the military offensive on those living in Iraq Kurdistan . |
| 8 | On the contrary , ‘ From their point of view the RUC is now being used as a political force to impose the Anglo-Irish Agreement on an unwilling majority in the province ’ ( Weitzer , 1987:93 ) . |
| 9 | The Inland Revenue has the necessary information on its computers , because it has everyone 's postal code . |
| 10 | It has been remarked that the metric equation contains the full information on the geometry of that space . |
| 11 | Then the lawyer noticed the tall mirror on the wall between the glass-fronted bookshelves . |
| 12 | At this stage it was not the intention to explore the real world on the basis of the model , but to use the model as a starting point for further development , and the analysts concentrated on specifying the transformation required , without too much concern about the system ownership , actors , etc . |
| 13 | THE Government faces another ambush over the Maastricht bill after a Labour attempt to resurrect the controversial debate on the social chapter . |
| 14 | The overflow entry links the highest key on the logical track , which comprises both the prime ( physical ) and overflow parts of it , and the address of the first record in the chain of overflow records for that track . |
| 15 | ‘ Guyana , ’ she lilted as one of the keys on her ring opened the topmost door on the last floor of the ramshackle old house . |
| 16 | Haslemere Bowls Club begin the 1992 season on Saturday , April 25th on the Recreation Ground in Old Haslemere Road ( 3 p.m . ) . |
| 17 | We believe that much of the confusion surrounding the current debate on allocation of resources results from a failure to distinguish between assessing need ( a technical question ) and setting priorities ( a judgmental question ) . |
| 18 | Got a club called the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 19 | the organisation of Information Services , with good integration of various elements provided for students and a conscious attempt to offset the continued pressure on library resource . |
| 20 | ‘ It was the best century I have ever played , ’ said Crowe as his side finished the third day on 277-6 -still 15 short of avoiding an innings defeat . |
| 21 | The research examines the available literature on the processes of accountability which may exist within such arrangements . |
| 22 | The attempt to hold the annual procession on the feast-day itself , 1 September , with a substitute statue borrowed for the occasion from the Greyfriars , produced a riot ; ‘ the Grey Friars gaped , the Black Friars blew , the priests panted and fled ’ — and the Greyfriars lost their statue , its head shattered on an Edinburgh causeway . |
| 23 | THE contest to represent the first district on the Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors hardly sounds like national news . |
| 24 | The Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Trade and Industry appointed the Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment in May . |
| 25 | Much secular thinking puts the same emphasis on the whole relationship , but the teaching of Jesus and the New Testament goes further . |
| 26 | In that case the defendant pleaded the defence of mistake , the mistake being that of a shop assistant who in a lapse of concentration put the wrong label on a piece of meat . |
| 27 | In all my time here I ‘ ve had the final say on the many , many , decisions which concerned playing matters . |
| 28 | Adjustment for birth weight had the greatest effect on the perinatal mortality rates due to immaturity : the rate among women who were booked at general practitioner units and were delivered at hospital 1 fell from 3.6 to 1.0 . |
| 29 | A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds . |
| 30 | Chapter 13 shows the limited potential for challenge to experts ' decisions : this chapter summarises the current law on arbitration appeals , which has greatly restricted what was until 1979 very wide access indeed . |