Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 2 | The effect of this was that young fans rarely got the opportunity to travel on the Supporters ' Club coaches and , since travelling by British Rail was often a hazardous and expensive venture , alternative arrangements were needed . |
| 3 | She allowed the silence to hum on the line , hoping it might make Christine Mills understand how ridiculous she sounded . |
| 4 | Since the election of the Tory Government of 1979 , which allowed the pound to rise on the back of North Sea oil in the early eighties and left British industry defenceless in the face of foreign competition , or ( according to your point of view ) exposed its inefficiency ( Vic inclines to the first view , but in certain moods will admit the force of the second ) , one-third of all the engineering companies in the West Midlands have closed down . |
| 5 | She nodded in confirmation , but showed no inclination to expand on the fact . |
| 6 | The French were thus one hour from victory ; just one hour from separating the allied armies , yet as the sun climbed higher and as the smoke of the dying fires thinned , the French made no move to advance on the crossroads . |
| 7 | Ali and Ahmed made a time to meet on the beach to fish . |
| 8 | Ipswich wasted a chance to reply on the hour when John Wark shot wide with only keeper Seaman to beat and four minutes later Wright slipped Campbell through to complete his hat-trick with a firm shot which left Forrest completely helpless . |
| 9 | By half-time it was obvious the rest of the game would continue in darkness , and to save time the referee ordered the players to stay on the field for an interval of two minutes only . |
| 10 | But the thug pulled out a shotgun , ordered the officer to lie on the ground and jumped into the car . |
| 11 | The man , carrying a postal package , walked into the Shrigley Dyers factory in Church Street at 9.25am , pulled out a handgun and ordered the staff to lie on the floor . |
| 12 | The new tsar 's aunt , the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna ( liberal German widow of the reactionary Grand Duke Mikhail ) , expressed a commitment to reform on the day after Nicholas I 's death . |
| 13 | But she declined an offer to go on the treadmill herself , telling patients : ‘ No thank you . |
| 14 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 15 | But it was confirmed that aides urged the media to concentrate on the royal couple 's four-day tour of Korea rather than speculating on their relationship . |
| 16 | The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent . |
| 17 | Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market . |
| 18 | It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since . |
| 19 | She did not decline the offer , however , which forced the paladin to sleep on the ground , with his head on Contralto 's saddle , beneath the trees outside . |
| 20 | Last year a bonanza of foreign capital attracted by interest rates of more than 18 p.c. poured $6 billion into Portugal , equivalent to 8 p.c. of gross domestic product , and forced the country to slam on the brakes and restrict foreign purchases of escudo investments . |
| 21 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to reflect on the excellent report produced by Professor Glennerster and published by the King 's Fund , which shows that fund-holding practices are more effective and efficient in delivering health care to patients , and that they use their resources much better ? |
| 22 | I shall go into greater detail than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East had a chance to do on the kinds of investment that can be produced , rather than the consumption boom which the Chancellor hopes for . |
| 23 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 24 | They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake . |
| 25 | The defendants were the owners of a public house which was run by a manager and his wife , who had a licence to live on the first floor and to take in paying guests . |
| 26 | Moreover , she had a room to let on the ground floor , with two beds . |
| 27 | But when the defendant appeared at the Bow Street Magistrates ' Court to answer an information that he had committed the offence under section 5(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1988 of driving with excess alcohol in the blood , he pleaded not guilty and at the close of the case for the prosecution a submission was made that he had no case to answer on the ground that the officer 's requirement at Vine Street Police Station that he provide a specimen of blood had not been validly made in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 28 | On appeal to the Crown Court it was held that the defendant had no case to answer on the ground , put shortly , that the constable had not independently decided whether to require blood or urine but had simply followed the Metropolitan Police pro forma instruction then current . |
| 29 | In England the Lords of Trade certainly had no money to spend on the colonies ; and would have been quite as surprised as any earlier generations at a suggestion that they ought to be spending money on them . |
| 30 | The company had no comment to make on the legal action . |