Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fire watching was only done at Wolverton on Saturday and Sunday nights ; for the rest of the week a full night shift was employed . |
| 2 | He wrote highly thought of articles on technique for the British Journal of Photography , and eventually became official photographic instructor to his beloved Royal Geographical Society . |
| 3 | In fact , Chubby has only appeared in TV on Opportunity Knocks , New Faces , Starburst and an episode of Play for Today . |
| 4 | This disposable income is not all directed into consumption on goods and services produced by firms in the domestic economy because some portion will be saved and some part will be used to purchase goods and services produced by firms in other countries ( i.e. imports ) . |
| 5 | Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous . |
| 6 | The Collective State Presidency failed to convene in Brioni on July 15 or 16 due to the refusal of the Serbian block to participate ; when it finally met in Belgrade on July 18 with all members present as well as the Federal Prime Minister ( Ante Markovic ) and the Ministers of Defence , Interior and Foreign Affairs , a surprise agreement was reached ( with Mesic voting against and the Bosnian representative abstaining ) to begin immediately to pull all troops out of Slovenia within three months to the neighbouring republics of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia . |
| 7 | I was two days late in getting onshore and just got to London on time . |
| 8 | The long-awaited national conference to formulate Togo 's future political structure finally opened in Lomé on July 8 . |
| 9 | A sixth round of peace talks finally opened in Rome on May 6 between the government and the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) . |
| 10 | This is not generally reflected in work on Japan published in English where the debate , if it is mentioned at all , seems to be based on the early works of Marx and a selective version of Weber . |
| 11 | The decree , which was welcomed by the German government , did not , however , allow for the extradition to Germany of the colony 's founder , Paul Schaeffer , a Baptist pastor already wanted by Interpol on charges of sexually abusing children in a religious community and in children 's homes . |
| 12 | The new technique attacks cancer but NOT healthy tissue , and has already worked in tests on animals . |
| 13 | Following its formalization by three South African legal experts on the basis of principles already adopted by the Assembly [ see p. 37116 ] , the draft Constitution was finally tabled for discussion on Jan. 25 . |
| 14 | On Jan. 27 Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher al-Masri arrived in Tehran to discuss the possibility of convening a ministerial meeting of the Islamic Conference Organization ( ICO ) , as already advocated by Rafsanjani on Jan. 6 and again on Jan. 26 . |
| 15 | Asserting that " the military option is unacceptable " , and that Primakov 's talks had suggested that " the position of Saddam Hussain is not the same as before " , Gorbachev nevertheless warned in Paris on Oct. 29 : " If … |
| 16 | An emergency Arab League summit , finally held in Cairo on Aug. 10 to discuss the Iraqi invasion , passed a seven-point resolution denouncing the " Iraqi aggression against " and annexation of Kuwait , and calling for an immediate withdrawal and the deployment of " Arab forces " to help Saudi Arabia and other states defend against " foreign aggression " . |
| 17 | There are different types for cast iron or steel boilers and for copper tubular types , and another type specially formulated for use on systems with aluminium radiators . |
| 18 | It should come as no surprise , therefore , to find that most insider participant observation of policing is almost always confined to discussion on management techniques and to the implementation of new systems . |
| 19 | In 1746 , for example , William Grant , who in spite of his seemingly humble occupation of carpenter was the son of an Inverness-shire laird , chose a particularly inconvenient moment to take leave from the service of the Hudson 's Bay Company and return to Scotland , for he was promptly committed to prison on suspicion of treason when he reached Scotland during the turmoil occasioned by the Jacobite Rising . |
| 20 | The joint union-republic anti-crisis programme was published on July 11 , having been formally approved by Gorbachev on July 8 and signed by all the nine republics negotiating the Union Treaty [ see below ] , plus Armenia . |
| 21 | The band were formally introduced in print on July 10 , 1985 with both NME and Sounds ran short interviews . |
| 22 | Serbia 's new constitution , approved by referendum in July [ see p. 37621 ] , formally entered into force on Sept. 28 . |
| 23 | Travel has undoubtedly broadened our culinary horizons and ingredients that were only ever found in markets on holidays abroad are now readily available in specialist shops and large supermarkets . |
| 24 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) , first conceived by President Mitterrand of France in late 1989 to assist the economic reconstruction of central and eastern Europe [ see p. 37028 ] , was formally inaugurated in London on April 15-17 . |
| 25 | A Forum for Security and Co-operation , whose creation was endorsed by leaders representing member states of the Conference for Security and Co-Operation in Europe ( CSCE ) in July [ see pp. 39030-31 ] , was formally inaugurated in Vienna on Sept. 22 . |
| 26 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 27 | In some of these respects ( such as improvisation , or blue tonality and pitch inflection ) it was more suited to transmission on recordings than in notation . |
| 28 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 29 | The members decided that the unilateral introduction of Performance Related Pay on a one-to-one basis was not the way forward and if , at any stage , it was to be introduced , it should be collectively negotiated by IBOA on behalf of its members . |
| 30 | In cases involving media rights heard in British courts today , the Convention and the cases on it decided by the European Court are usually cited in argument on behalf of the media . |