Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defence Minister Lassane Ouangraoua revealed on Jan. 8 that an army non-commissioned officer had plotted to overthrow the government on Dec. 28 . |
| 2 | Most recently , in 1985 , Mr Justice Popplewell reported on crowd safety and control at sports grounds , following the Bradford fire ; in 1988 , Lord Justice Butler-Sloss on suspected child abuse cases in Cleveland ; in 1988 Mr Justice Barry Sheen on the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise ; in 1988 , Lord Cullen on the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion ; in 1989 , Lord Justice Taylor on the Hillsborough stadium disaster . |
| 3 | As Kenneth Baker appears on the big screen , also lamenting the loss of Chris Patten , the revellers chatter among themselves : ‘ Now I do n't like him . ’ |
| 4 | NCR GROUPS WORK ON WORLDWIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES |
| 5 | Van Butchell died on 30 October 1814 . |
| 6 | But in terms of luxury , elegance and sophistication , the Land Cruise was ( and is ) poles apart from the Venice Simplon Orient Express unleashed on an unsuspecting world in May 1982 . |
| 7 | The reaper cut the corn by bending over and gasping a bunch of ears in his left hand , as Caleb Howe did on his allotment , inserting the sickle and drawing it towards him in a sawing action . |
| 8 | To emphasize her words , Connie Dean pulled on her hat . |
| 9 | Patrick Lundy stood on the street for a few moments , staring unseeing into the windows , and then he turned away and headed back up to Mayfair . |
| 10 | At the same time , the music is full of allusions — the motif D-E flat-C-B based on his initials DSCH is now common knowledge , as are the autobiographical self-quotations in the Eighth Quartet . |
| 11 | This year Musical Director William Cairns focuses on some of the great chorus numbers from some of the greatest musicals of all time . |
| 12 | All the Franklin and Selectronics products rely on chip memories to store their databases and the search and retrieval software that enables users to access them . |
| 13 | Patrick Kelly sat on his daughter 's bed . |
| 14 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 15 | ‘ Liebchen , ’ Herr Nordern heaved on his overcoat . |
| 16 | Herr Nordern slumped on a chair . |
| 17 | Deputy Prime Minister Narcís Serra Serra said on July 11 : " The only thing that they have to do is to stop killing . " |
| 18 | Earlier this week Dr John Goold of Bangor University arrived on Orkney with a recording of female sperm whales from the Azores . |
| 19 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 20 | In the Netherlands parliament voted on Jan. 11 in favour of putting the two Netherlands frigates in the Gulf under US command and of sending two squadrons of ground-to-air Patriot missiles and 150 military personnel to Turkey ( a fellow NATO member ) . |
| 21 | The Amal leader Nabi Berri announced on Aug. 27 that his group was in possession of the remains of two Israeli " prisoners " , and would allow the Red Cross to examine the bodies once Israel had freed 28 Lebanese women held in Israeli prisons . |
| 22 | The Shia Amal leader Nabi Berri resigned on Aug. 31 as Minister of State and the ( Shia ) Housing and Co-operatives Minister Mohammed Baydun also left the government over the decision to send an official delegation to Libya to mark the opening of " the great man-made river " [ see p. 38409 ] . |
| 23 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 24 | BEN Crenshaw turned on his trademark putting touch to move into a one-shot lead after the third round of the Nestle Invitational tournament in Orlando , Florida , on Saturday . |
| 25 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 26 | Sarah Bamfield seized on a loose ball and swung the ball across the D for Lucy Youngs to poke home at the far post . |
| 27 | Gary Wolstenholme drew on his wealth of experience over the Hoylake course to give England the all-important point which keeps them on course for a fifth title in a decade . |
| 28 | Museums are desperately trying to shed their dusty image , Tag Gronberg sheds light on the V&A 's new look at life this century |
| 29 | The writer Farag Fudah died on June 8 from gunshot wounds inflicted by two Islamic fundamentalist gunmen who attacked him as he left his office in the Heliopolis , Cairo . |
| 30 | An articulated lorry and a Ford Sierra car collided on the A thirty-four near Enstone at about nine o'clock this morning . |