Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN was due to go on trial at Liverpool Crown Court later today accused of murdering his pregnant wife . |
| 2 | He is due to go on trial on June 10 . |
| 3 | May as the Wardens are due to go on holiday shortly . |
| 4 | THE 24-year-old Donegal man who underwent a kidney transplant after being whisked off to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin minutes before he was due to go on stage at the City of Derry Drama Festival was today said to be ‘ doing very well . ’ |
| 5 | The book is due to go on sale next week . |
| 6 | Most powerful of all Clios will be the limited edition Clio Williams model , due to go on sale in August 1993 with a 1998cc version of the 1 6-valve model which is to boast a massive 150bhp . |
| 7 | The appointment of the liberal pro-US United Kingdom-trained Gen. Janjua ( commonly referred to as Gen. Nawaz ) , 53 , ended months of political speculation that Beg , who was due to retire on Aug. 17 , would extend his tenure possibly through a military take-over . |
| 8 | It 's possible to go on volunteer holidays . |
| 9 | You can work with any size of mirror , from minute to enormous , and it can be free-standing to sit on top of a dressing table or hung on a wall , as shown in the photograph on the opposite page . |
| 10 | He said his programme , coupled with radical changes to the disciplinary system and recommendations from the Sheehy Inquiry , which is due to report on rank , pay and conditions of service in May , would constitute ‘ the most important reform of the police service for 30 years ’ . |
| 11 | He said his programme , coupled with radical changes to the disciplinary system and recommendations from the Sheehy Inquiry , which is due to report on rank , pay and conditions of service in May , would constitute ‘ the most important reform of the police service for 30 years ’ . |
| 12 | The premiers of the 16 Länder are due to meet on January 9th to decide what the quotas should be ( some seem inclined to be far more generous than others ) . |
| 13 | The governors are due to meet on March 31 and if the resolution is passed , a ballot will be conducted after Easter . |
| 14 | Foreign Ministry officials from Romania , Moldova , Ukraine and Russia were due to meet on March 31 to discuss the situation . |
| 15 | The Russian vote followed a last-minute effort by Russian President Boris Yeltsin to secure the approval of the powerful centre-right industrial lobby , Civic Union , in the hope of avoiding a clash with the conservative-dominated Congress of People 's Deputies due to meet on Dec. 1 . |
| 16 | IT WOULD not be a catastrophe if Labour won on Thursday . |
| 17 | Right cos what it is erm we 'd like if , if possible to get like a daily list of who 's due to appear on Pebble Mill where pop stars and T V stars are worth a damn sight more in newspapers than ne hard news these days it er should n't be a bad idea for us to try and get a , get in on who 's , you know , who 's coming in to appear . |
| 18 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 19 | The bitter weather was ending and everyone was feeling more cheerful when Joe was due to come on leave , but shortly before he arrived his mother had a vivid dream in which she saw him lying dead on a battlefield . |
| 20 | The second phase of Gullfaks would involve the exploitation of the eastern part of a large field of which the western part is due to come on stream in 1987 . |
| 21 | Under pressure from within the PSOE , the government continued its freeze on building nuclear power stations , and on April 30 an agreement was reached with Algeria to construct a US$1,300 million gas pipeline through Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar ; the line was due to come on stream in 1995 . |
| 22 | The offshore wind scheme , due to come on stream early next year , is currently being built off Vindeby , on Lolland Island in the Baltic Sea . |
| 23 | The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April . |
| 24 | Her grief-stricken father , who was born in Mossley Hill , was too upset to comment on tragedy last night . |
| 25 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 26 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 27 | No one is willing to go on record with their feelings about Hamnett 's sometimes capricious behaviour , but one says privately : ‘ Like many creative people , she can be impossible to reason with , and the experience can be very painful . ’ |
| 28 | But in South Africa , because male dancers were scarce , every available man willing to go on stage and hold up one of the women had to be encouraged and enabled to do so ; consequently , even the most rudimentary beginners were taught partnering . |
| 29 | Popes , especially such as Clement , found men like Winchelsey — all inflexible integrity and principle — a political embarrassment , and what Clement sought was a unified realm ruled over by a king who was prepared to go on crusade , assisted by a primate who would readily raise the papal taxes to pay for it . |
| 30 | Not one of the 33 No-voters , let alone the 24 abstainers , was prepared to go on television on Tuesday night to stand by Sir Anthony . |