Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By getting to grips with such details as whether tradesmen negotiated with the servants at the front door or down the area steps , how the speculative system which produced most of London 's houses between 1700 and 1830 worked between landlord , builder and tenant , how builders skimped on brickwork and laced their masonry with pieces of wood , how the proportioning of windows in façades and interior details were worked out , and how water supplies entered houses and were stored ( in decorative lead cisterns usually prominent in the basement kitchen ) , it gives an extraordinarily vivid sense of contact with the life that created London 's Georgian world of squares and terraces , all of which is heightened by effective quotations form the impressions of foreign visitors . |
| 2 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 3 | Incubation of the VT2X peptide with an IE-3 probe ( coordinates -108 to +27 ) gave specific protein:DNA complexes ( Figure 5A , lane 2 ) and again additional multiple complexes arose on titration of the VT2X peptide ( data not shown ) as noted earlier with the gene 62 promoter probes . |
| 4 | There were several reasons why disputes happened on Fazisi that were not shared with other yachts in the fleet . |
| 5 | So when the Jews arrived on board from a mainland where they had been despised , systematically humiliated and imprisoned , they discovered that although this ship was legally still part of Germany , flew the swastika and had large portraits of Hitler in its public rooms , the Germans with whom they had dealings were courteous , attentive and even obedient . |
| 6 | NEW low cost homes went on sale in Middlesbrough yesterday marking the start of a key housing projects linked with the town 's City Challenge cash bid . |
| 7 | To the west , the commoners ' fields met the highway where the buses turned around and the shops went on parade . |
| 8 | Once the piglets are removed from the sow they are put in wire meshed cages decked on top of one another and , as soon as they are strong enough , are moved to concrete fattening pens , often with no straw for bedding . |
| 9 | At one stage , the prison guards went on strike , claiming the prisoners were better armed than them . |
| 10 | The circus elephants brought Witney town centre to a halt today … and very nearly lost their keepers … as the performers and animals went on parade … |
| 11 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 12 | The nighties went on sale this afternoon . |
| 13 | This was first flown in 1979 , but Bill found himself hanging upside down when the brakes seized on landing , and was reluctant to repeat this so it is now owned by Disney Industries , featuring in a recent film The Rocketeer . |
| 14 | In 1990 teachers in five provinces went on strike for a 100 per cent rise . |
| 15 | At 1920 two helicopters arrived and the master and engineer were returned to the vessel at 1927 ready to refloat her , and the two crewmen stayed on board to assist . |
| 16 | Over the next five years there would be shortfalls of ‘ tens of millions of tonnes ’ unless new investments came on stream , he warned almost as the government announced that capital spending in the energy sector would be slashed by 40 per cent . |
| 17 | In 1833 , of 5,020 antislavery petitions the Wesleyans provided 1,953 and other nonconformist bodies 873 , though Drescher points out that a higher proportion of signatures came on community petitions . |
| 18 | This was a narrative which at times verged on hero-worship rather than a critical assessment , but his enthusiasm was obvious , and he had clearly researched well . |
| 19 | ‘ I always imagined models lived on lettuce leaves and iced water . ’ |
| 20 | 11am The Government Commissioners came on board to ask every person if they had any complaints to make for the treatment during the voyage . |
| 21 | When the pressmen started on sheet C , the compositor washed and distributed type from the two B formes just finished with ( keeping the running titles safely , though ) ; he prepared inner and outer D , which the pressmen would call for next , fitted the B running titles neatly in place , and again got on with something else . |
| 22 | These imports reached on average over 10 million koku a year in the late 1920s , equivalent to over 15 per cent of annual domestic production . |
| 23 | Edmund later received from Edward I the right to appoint Forest justices of his own whenever the King 's judges went on eyre in the royal forests , and to receive the fines and amercements therefrom . |
| 24 | Rubbish piled up at Madrid airport as cleaners went on strike for more pay |
| 25 | Passengers left the plane for 52 minutes while cleaners went on board . |
| 26 | Nottinghamshire miners went on strike to protest against losing money because of their own ban on overtime . |
| 27 | The docks remained busy throughout the long hot summer months , but as winter drew in there was more trouble brewing as the miners went on strike for better pay . |
| 28 | More than 70,000 miners went on strike on March 1 in protest at European Community ( EC ) plans to reduce state subsidies to the coal industry . |
| 29 | The action which forced the resignation of Roman and his National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government began on Sept. 23 , when 52,000 miners went on strike in the Jiu Valley , protesting over soaring inflation , cuts in their living standards and , more generally , the government 's austerity programme . |
| 30 | Transport workers and some miners went on strike on Sept. 2 , affecting most airports , major railway junctions ( reportedly causing difficulties on Russia 's railways ) and 39 coal mines . |