Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 2 | There are at least three different types of screw threaded necks on bottles , and each needs a specific closure in order to form a seal with the top of the bottle , otherwise the bottle leaks . |
| 3 | On Jan. 11 federal Defence Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg announced savings on costs of defence of DM43,700 million ( US$27,800 million ) spread over the next 13 years . |
| 4 | AT&T 's eagerness to identify with an artist who ran away , scrawled graffiti on walls , and became a drug addict may have little to do with the quest for positive ‘ role models ’ now popular in the United States . |
| 5 | THE Netherlands moved level on points with England in Group II after beating Turkey 3-1 in Utrecht . |
| 6 | They analysed data on requests to place pupils in particular schools together with census-based area deprivation indices and school-based characteristics . |
| 7 | No major Arab initiative materialized at this time , although the Yugoslav Foreign Minister on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement pursued ideas on lines similar to those explored in December by Algerian President Col. Chadli Bendjedid [ see p. 37927 ] . |
| 8 | The Armenians for their part reported attacks on villages by Azeri forces , with that on Kazanchi resulting in 27 deaths on March 4-5 , and the shooting down of a helicopter evacuating civilians from Nagorny Karabakh to the Armenian capital , Yerevan , on March 3 , with 17 deaths . |
| 9 | Even the Mamur Zapt entered mosques on police business with caution . |
| 10 | Mohawks on the nearby Kahnawake reservation , joined by members of the militant Warriors Society [ see p. 37448 ] , in solidarity with the Oka action erected barricades on approaches to the main Mercier road bridge spanning the St Lawrence river , forcing commuters to make lengthy detours into Montreal . |
| 11 | Next came gentlemen on incomes of £40 and £20 , respectively . |
| 12 | To begin with , heraldry ( or , more properly , armory ) comprised designs on shields and horse trappings adopted by the knightly class and above , to identify each other in tournaments . |
| 13 | ‘ Slower speeds , fewer accidents ’ Parked cars on roads surrounding Darlington Memorial Hospital would make for fewer car accidents . |
| 14 | On a G7 scorecard drawn up by a coalition of environmental groups , Britain came bottom on efforts to tackle pollution and global warming . |
| 15 | There were measured assessments , too , from American officialdom , while the embassy in London advised Washington on ways in which the Wilson government might be helped to manage the increasingly outspoken British critics of American actions in Vietnam . |
| 16 | So if the EEC reduced subsidies on crops which now get a lot of taxpayers ' money , like wheat , it could increase them — albeit not by so much — on other products , like non-grain animal feeds . |
| 17 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 18 | Seb said his ma played bridge on Fridays . |
| 19 | While some of the accidents were unavoidable , a large number , especially in winter , seemed to indicate lack of experience , inadequate fitness , failure to prepare properly — or that the victims ignored warnings on conditions . |
| 20 | Taking the term as a challenge , the council wrote ‘ identical in being ’ into their confession of faith , to which they appended anathemas on propositions attributed ( in some cases rightly ) to Arius . |
| 21 | In 1989 , USL made $4m on revenues of $58m . |
| 22 | On Oct. 30 Mahmoud Atta , a Palestinian and a US citizen , was extradited from New York to Israel , where he faced trial on charges of taking part in an attack on an Israeli bus in the West Bank in 1986 . |
| 23 | The government stated that Baquerizo faced trial on charges of " acting against the state 's legal order " and therefore could not be released . |
| 24 | THE KING WHO DECLARED WAR ON ANIMALS |
| 25 | Although the US 1988 Indian Gaming Act allowed casinos on reservations only with the agreement of the local state , the authorities had been reluctant to act against the St Regis establishments for fear of violating treaties guaranteeing the sovereignty of the reservation . |
| 26 | On Oct. 21 Israeli F-16 jets attacked a Hezbollah base in Jibchit and artillery opened fire on villages just north of the " security zone " . |
| 27 | Troops opened fire on crowds armed with iron staves and knives . |
| 28 | SOC troops opened fire on crowds of demonstrators in Phnom Penh on Dec. 21 , killing at least three people and wounding a further 26 . |
| 29 | A teacher in the Transylvanian city of Cluj told the Guardian that she saw corpses lying in the streets after troops opened fire on demonstrators . |
| 30 | On Sunday 26th on instructions from the Tsar , troops opened fire on demonstrators and the Duma was prorogued . |