Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter also proposed the completion of the demarcation of the disputed border , navigation rights for Ecuador on the Peruvian Amazon and its tributaries , a joint integration zone along the whole border and " confidence-building " measures including a meeting of military commanders in January . |
| 2 | Beyond the joining of the rivers , now called the Tisza , the route turns north towards Russian and eventually becomes the frontier between Hungary on the left bank and the Soviets on the right . |
| 3 | Erm there 's war between er you get the Crimean war between Russia on the one hand and Great Britain and France on the other . |
| 4 | But North 's fortune was really made with the war of the Pacific ( 1879–83 ) between Chile on the one hand and Peru and Bolivia on the other . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State for Scotland on the general implication for Scotland of the White Paper Higher Education : A New Framework ; |
| 6 | The Secretary of State for Scotland on the particular implications for The Dundee Institute of Technology and Robert Gordon Institute of Technology , arising from the White Paper Higher Education : A New Framework ; |
| 7 | Baghdad radio had announced on April 3 the recapture of Sulaimaniya on the Iranian border , and the Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and deputy secretary-general of the Baath Socialist Party regional command , Izzat Ibrahim , visited that city on April 4 , reporting the " return of security and stability to northern towns and areas " . |
| 8 | Carry on to get views of the village of Bontddu on the opposite bank . |
| 9 | The Centre for Science , Technology and Energy Policy was established at the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) of the University of Sussex on the 1 October 1984 . |
| 10 | The Centre for Science , Technology and Energy Policy was established at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex on the 1 October 1984 . |
| 11 | The caves of Bétharram , a short way out of Lourdes on the main road to Pau , are not my sort of caves but I will at least mention them . |
| 12 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 13 | It is an important piece of Germany on the Swiss shore of the Bodensee , overlooking the point where the Untersee joins it , but since it will inevitably be in the path of the traveller following those lakes , it had better be mentioned . |
| 14 | Another relative and rector of the Patrimony was James , son of John Odoline , a cousin , and count of Andria , who had been papal marshal and commander of Innocent 's troops in Sicily in 1200 – 1201 , to whom he granted the fortress of Ninfa on the southern border . |
| 15 | This is to invite you to join a new Special Interest Group ( SIG ) on Co-operating Knowledge-Based Systems ( CKBS ) , as proposed at the international working conference on CKBS , held at the University of Keele on the 3rd–5th October 1990 . |
| 16 | There is the work of Muthesius on the terraced house ( 1982 ) , of King on the bungalow ( 1984 ) , of Oliver et al. |
| 17 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 18 | Immigration Act , Rhodesia , Gomulka , Prague , America having a national nervous breakdown , the soul of England on the ropy side . |
| 19 | Very rightly , Mr. Beloff has presented arguments to the court , which have been of considerable assistance , and which were in favour of the plaintiffs and not of the Bank of England on the main issue of principle . |
| 20 | Evans ascribed this seal to the Syro-Hittite class as he also did a specimen found at Vari , south of Athens on the Greek mainland . |
| 21 | The vineyards of Ludes are sandwiched between those of Chigny-les-Roses and the grand cru of Mailly-Champagne on the northern slopes of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 22 | At a meeting with the Bank of Ireland on the above date , a number of issues were discussed which included Job Sharing . |
| 23 | Operation the sixth of December on the little finger er and my other fingers swelled up |
| 24 | Oh well just south of Caernarvon on the first section erm between Caernarvon and ? |
| 25 | There were no bridges left standing between Verona and Rome and , according to Eric , who from now on was to travel this way once a week , every village south of Florence on the main road to Viterbo and Rome had been either destroyed or severely damaged . |
| 26 | She had to endure the congratulations of Jackson on the steady increase in the firm 's wealth . |
| 27 | ‘ The circumstances of our times ’ , he had then said in his Report to the Committee of the House of Commons on the Poor Laws , ‘ render a change in our internal policy respecting the poor and the working classes absolutely necessary ; and the first question to be decided by every man of all ranks is : shall the alteration be made under the guidance of moderation and wisdom , foreseeing and gradually preparing each step , one regularly after another , thereby preventing a single premature advance — or , shall the change be effected by ignorance and prejudice , under the baneful influence of [ anger and violence ] … . |
| 28 | On 19 February 1993 , Mark Fisher MP opened the debate in the House of Commons on the second reading of his private member 's ‘ Right to Know Bill ’ commenting thus : |
| 29 | After a debate in the House of Commons on the White Paper 's proposals , which were accepted without dissent , an amended scheme was announced in June which came into effect on 1 August 1964 . |
| 30 | The circular or quinary system of Swainson interested some of the more speculative minds of the next generation , including Huxley , A. R. Wallace ( who annotated his copy of Swainson on the geographical distribution of animals ) , and Darwin ( who had copies made of MacLeay 's writings in order to criticize them ) . |