Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In discussion which followed ‘ many members remained sceptical as to the feasibility of the Dip.H.E. and commented on the ephemeral interest in existing Dip.H.E.s … enrolment for future courses would depend on the flexibility exercised in allowing entrants with qualifications other than two ‘ A ’ levels to enrol , and members regretted the intransigence of the DES in this matter' . |
| 2 | A Voice of Arab Egypt radio station was monitored soon after the Cairo summit broadcasting attacks on Mubarak and calling on the Egyptian people to overthrow their government . |
| 3 | Staying in a small town in the north of Scotland and working on the local newspaper for the rest of his life suddenly seemed a dismal prospect . |
| 4 | The charts given here are a little misleading , because Deneb has to be drawn on one section and Vega and Altair on the other , but the overall aspect is obvious enough . |
| 5 | Among those who generously gave up their evening to help the NCH and perform on the tiny temporary stage were : Nerys Hughes , Angela Rippon , Susan Rees accompanied by May Parry ; Penelope Keith , Robert Powell , Tamsin Little , accompanied by Vanessa Latarche : Wayne Sleep who gave a perfect performance on a tiny stage ; he was accompanied by Mark Latimer ; young Xan Blacker , also accompanied by Vanessa Latarche , Cor Meibion Gwalia , and Shirley Anne Field . |
| 6 | One possibility was " to write off the Shah and proceed on the unpalatable consumption that Mosadeq is the indisputable ruler of Persia and the only bulwark against Communism " In the end , however , the prime minister advisers decided that it was almost prudent for Britain to follow the American line . |
| 7 | And , finally , take heed that all worthy citizens are invited to visit the company 's magnificent station at Raven Square and to ride on the mighty little steam trains which operate very day until the sixth day of September . ’ |
| 8 | She was dressed in a white silk slip belonging to Faye and sitting on the dark wooden floor of the veranda , leaning her arms on a white wicker chair . |
| 9 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 10 | They took-off from Croydon on July 30 , 1936 , flying via Vienna , Athens , Aleppo , Bushire and Jask on the Persian coast , towards Karachi . |
| 11 | I had warned my men overnight to be prepared for an early start , and a little before sunrise , leaving them to pack up and follow me , I said good-bye to my friends at Dalkania and started on the two-mile climb to the forest road on the ridge above … . |
| 12 | It is a much more complex conception and much more pictorial ; indeed it resembles the Apollo and Muse on the little cup ( fig. 112 ) , though that is simpler . |
| 13 | On Nov. 23-25 representatives of France and Indonesia , as co-chairs of the PICC , met with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council in Paris and agreed on the final draft of the Cambodian peace settlement . |
| 14 | It was not that Jarvis was asking much rent , in fact no estate agent would have believed what he was asking , but the whole point of letting bits of the school was to get enough for him to live on , indeed to get to Cairo and ride on the new 42.5 kilometre , 33-station ENR . |
| 15 | When he sensed that the politicians were afraid enough of the army to come to terms with him ( as they seemed to be after learning that troops based in Algeria had seized control of the island of Corsica on 24 – 25 May ) , he flashed a red light to Algiers and moved on the political front in Paris . |
| 16 | The Metropolitan line between Wapping and Rotherhithe on the underground system passes through the Thames Tunnel , the first tunnel built beneath the river . |
| 17 | Obviously having only played a couple of gigs , including Radio City ( New York and appearing on The Grammy Awards , their inexperience showed . |
| 18 | He could not have stayed away for long because in June of that year he was captured by the Dragoons in Knockdow House in Carrick and confined on the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth to await trial . |