Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On bail bandits people who offended while on bail he promised to bring in legislation to increase the penalties and set up bail hostels . |
| 2 | Bob Weighill , the home unions secretary , added : ‘ It is not normal for rugby union players to work while on tour . ’ |
| 3 | In these states , the security forces enjoy legal immunity from prosecution for offences committed while on duty . |
| 4 | In 1988 , Brenda admitted to the worry that her husband might be tempted to stray while on tour . |
| 5 | The boy admitted five charges of joyriding and absconding while on bail . |
| 6 | of defendants granted bail were convicted of an offence committed whilst on bail , this means that some 83 to 90 per cent . |
| 7 | probability , at least ) to offend whilst on bail , and ( ii ) that a custodial remand is the only justifiable way of responding to this prediction , lesser methods of prevention ( e.g. through bail hostels or other methods ) being likely to fail ? |
| 8 | They 'll be used to provide emergency treatment for British troops if they 're injured while on convoy protection duty in Bosnia . |
| 9 | When botanising abroad Mark Catesby also appreciated the value of records made while on expeditions , and he drew much in the field for his Natural History of Carolina , Florida and the Bahama Islands ( 1730–47 ) . |
| 10 | The Act therefore laid down a " statement of particulars " to be included in any contract — the nature and length of the voyage , the time to be on board , the capacity in which the seaman was to serve , the amount of wages and scale of provisions to be provided and any disciplinary rules or penalties to be applied while on board — thus anticipating by 122 years the detailing of terms universally required by the Contracts of Employment Act 1972 . |
| 11 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 12 | Our third meal we ate while on duty — sometimes at 2 a.m. — in the huge cafeteria erected just outside the gates of the Park . |
| 13 | At the Canterbury Eliot Symposium in 1983 , Tom Faber mentioned the attacks of vertigo Eliot suffered while on holiday in Wales . |
| 14 | Paul Turner was on his first tour of duty in Northern Ireland when he was shot while on patrol . |
| 15 | The crystal set could be pulled into a ventilator by pulleys to avoid the sergeant knowing he was listening when on duty in the station . |
| 16 | Despite the growing magnitude of the budget deficit , the Bush administration ( which had hitherto opposed tax cuts except on capital gains tax ) declared on Oct. 23 that stimulative middle-income tax-cuts were " under consideration " . |
| 17 | If you do any part-time work while on unemployment benefit and your earnings do not affect your benefit entitlement , you will still have to meet the rest of the conditions for this benefit on the remaining days . |
| 18 | If you do any part-time work while on unemployment benefit and your earnings do not affect your benefit entitlement , you will still have to meet the rest of the conditions for this benefit on the remaining days . |
| 19 | If you do any part-time work while on unemployment benefit and your earnings do not affect your benefit entitlement , you will still have to meet the rest of the conditions for this benefit on the remaining days . |
| 20 | The church taught that the individual 's fate after death was primarily decided by the way he or she acted while on earth . |
| 21 | He was drowned when on board H.M.S. Hampshire , in 1916 , when it was sunk . |
| 22 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 23 | They have both been occasional golfers , which they still enjoy when on holiday in Spain or Portugal . |
| 24 | In Kosovo , which like Vojvodina was officially administered as an autonomous province within Serbia , and where elections to a 130-member " constituent Republican Assembly " on May 24 [ see p. 38919 ] had been declared illegal by the Serbian authorities , the assembly was prevented from proceeding because on June 23 Serbian authorities surrounded the building and arrested several deputies . |
| 25 | In the briefing sessions students will be told what sort of activities they can expect to do while on Work Experience , and whom to contact should any problems arise . |
| 26 | I want your word that you 'll treat anything you see or hear while on board this boat as absolutely confidential . ’ |
| 27 | A PSYCHIATRIC patient who escaped while on trial for murder was recaptured yesterday . |
| 28 | The government had already been damaged when on July 12 a judge ruled that the Army Commander-in-Chief and former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra could face court martial on charges that he had covered up the murder of a 16-year-old youth by his bodyguards in October 1990 . |
| 29 | This had been badly damaged when on Oct. 3 the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the government 's proposals , based on the main plank of Smallholders ' policy , to return to their original owners lands confiscated by the state after the communists had taken power in 1947 . |
| 30 | Many hotels provide uniforms for their staff to be worn when on duty . |