Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Five zones must be penetrated on the road to Bangler 's hide-out . |
2 | Mrs. Price , chairman , reported on the visit to Cranleigh 40th anniversary party and the inaugural group meeting which had been held at Farnham . |
3 | Where root crops are fed on the ground to cattle the rabbit has easy pickings and it remains interested and satisfied with the debris littering a field that once held a root crop . |
4 | Which was a very good thing and what children of today miss when they 're being whisked on a bus to school . |
5 | Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates . |
6 | As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden . |
7 | It was worked by ‘ standard ’ E/1 Class cars , like those used on the service to Croydon and Purley and sometimes by the slightly older but almost identical E Class , using 15 cars per hour in each direction . |
8 | Darren was helped on the road to stardom by the Hit and Miss Management Agency based in Norton . |
9 | A further agreement has also been reached on the return to Germany of a part of the library of the German town of Gotha , 300,000 volumes of which were returned by the Soviet Government to the GDR back in 1956 . |
10 | Agreement was also reached on the supply to Israel of 10 used US F-15 A or F-15B jet fighters . |
11 | In many ways one of his best books is one difficult to obtain , The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism , based on a visit to Russia in nineteen-twenty in which he had , amongst other things , a conversation with Lenin . |
12 | The newspaper report was based on an announcement to shareholders and the media by Navan Resources . |
13 | Based on the experience to date some clear conclusions can be drawn from the best practice approach : |
14 | ( 1 ) Whether , apart from arguments based on the right to freedom of expression , a non-trading corporation has a sufficient reputation to sustain an action for libel even though it can establish no actual financial loss . |
15 | But in so far as his criticism is based on the right to freedom of expression and its particular relevance where a local or central government authority is concerned , I consider that aspect in the next section of this judgment . |
16 | There was little conversation exchanged on the journey to Merchiston Lodge , which was accomplished in a battered gig , drawn by a shuffling cob , long past its prime . |
17 | MOIRA councillor Jim Dillon has called on the Government to back any proposals a Lisburn Area Plan may produce with ‘ hard cash ’ . |
18 | By a deathbed grant he ensured the foundation at Denhall in the Wirral of a hospital to care for the poor and for those shipwrecked on the passage to Ireland . |
19 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
20 | Almost 800 schools throughout Great Britain and Ireland will have their sights set on a visit to St. Andrews in May for the International final of the Golf Foundation Team Championship for schools . |
21 | He would n't risk it , not with his whole soul set on the trip to Ireland . |
22 | The defeat of Labour was greeted with relief by health service managers , but critics said the NHS was now set on the road to privatisation and a two-tier service . |
23 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
24 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
25 | On the one hand I needed to stress the bus driver 's evidence in order to bolster my case , which was that Carella had somehow stumbled on a clue to Moro 's whereabouts . |
26 | This is similar to the limit placed on the companion to PSR B1855+09 which is about 5 times more distant . |
27 | The high costs placed on the licensee to retune millions of domestic VCRs and satellite receivers , plus a 30 per cent original programming starting base , is expected to deter a number of bidders . |
28 | With increase in overburden pressure , more stress is placed on the grain to grain contacts and compaction starts to proceed by chemical processes . |
29 | Anthropologists who have studied witchcraft among African tribes have commented on the reaction to suggestions that the disease of an individual may be the result of a virus , not of witchcraft . |
30 | To reach its summit anyone approaching from the Dalwhinnie direction would have to negotiate 17 sharp zig-zag bends , exposed on every stretch to small-arms or artillery fire . |