Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 2 | This was ultimately conceded in 1964 when teachers were given majority representation on the Schools Council for the curriculum and examinations . |
| 3 | Many of the books , which range from ‘ Hygiene in Buildings ’ to ‘ The Woodworm Problem ’ are used as recommended text books on university and college courses . |
| 4 | Over the past 20 years , more and more food producers and retailers have included nutrition information on the food label , although there is no legal requirement for them to do so . |
| 5 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 6 | Having occupied Kuwait City on 2 August , Iraq pushed on southwards : in a press item two days later , 100,000 Iraqi troops were reported in a concentration near the Saudi frontier . |
| 7 | The 18-year-old 's third Test century came from only 135 balls , and contained 14 fours : he hit two more before giving a catch to second slip , where Moody had earlier dropped Kapil Dev on 0 . |
| 8 | On May 30 Honduras protested officially to El Salvador over an attack on a Honduran patrol in Honduran waters on May 23 and the violation of airspace on May 29 when , it said , a Salvadorean aircraft had dropped propaganda leaflets on refugee camps in the border area . |
| 9 | In theory , but not in practice , we have shed instrumentalist notions on the relationship between communication and change and have reassessed the roles of technology . |
| 10 | This has been prompted by the increasing value of the yen , which has squeezed profit margins on cars exported , and also by the growing threat of protectionism in many countries . |
| 11 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 12 | ‘ My daughter told me she 'd spilt nail varnish on my new bedroom carpet . ’ |
| 13 | Critics also blamed energy shortages on mismanagement and corruption in the electricity and generating sector , pointing to the failure to invest in coal generating power when the problems first became evident . |
| 14 | When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 . |
| 15 | There was extensive unrest in the west midlands , and in particular in Staffordshire , and these were the areas which had rapturously received Dr Sacheverell on his triumphant progress following his trial of 1710 . |
| 16 | Ceauşescu had naturally received expert advice on the process of relocating buildings in this way , and therefore must have known the consequences . |
| 17 | The tallest deaf mute in 1890 was a Hugh McIntyre , a Scotsman living in Buenos Aires , Argentina , who was 7 feet 1 inches tall , and the smallest deaf mute was a man named West living on the Isle of Wight who was barely 3 feet tall . |
| 18 | Clive Turner , who has been in the position since September 1989 , has written curriculum guidance on HIV/AIDS , for the DipSW course , but child sexual abuse is not featured because CCETSW 's line is that sexual abuse and child protection are not DipSW level . |
| 19 | They 'd seen Miss Lavant on the promenade and about the town , always walking slowly , sometimes with a neat wicker basket . |
| 20 | John Buckley : suffered blood clot on brain after clash |
| 21 | I 've met Ollie Reed on two different film sets — The Big Sleep and The Class of Miss MacMichael — and it has to be said that he certainly appeared totally sober . |
| 22 | So , for example , if a retailer buys 20 pairs of jeans from a wholesaler at a cost of £10 a pair ( after discount , see p 114 ) and then charges the customer £15 a pair , he will have made £5 profit on each pair of jeans he sells . |
| 23 | Fashion : GREEN — AND FIT TO BE SEEN Jane Mulvagh on how a family crisis prompted Europe 's largest clothing manufacturer to plan an environment-friendly label |
| 24 | Local GPs , he said , had been ‘ very supportive ’ and had already met Dr Hao on her recent visit to the area . |
| 25 | General Francis had seen Mr Remington-Hart on Monday . |
| 26 | His job is rated Grade B on the Civil Service Scale , so he is on £31,747 a year — a figure that has risen dramatically from the £21,000 he started on in February 1989 . |
| 27 | President Suparmurad Niyazov ( who had visited Saudi Arabia on March 31 when he was received by King Fahd ) made a three-day visit to India from April 18 , signing co-operation agreements in the economic , cultural and scientific fields and establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries . |
| 28 | He said he had visited Sara Hart on 1 January as a New Year 's greeting . |
| 29 | The UK , along with other EC members , had first imposed trade sanctions on Iran and reduced diplomatic representation in protest against the taking of US hostages in November 1979 [ see pp. 30150 ; 30205-12 ; 30530 ; 30535-36 ] . |
| 30 | On April 11 , 1990 , Czechoslovakia formally applied to join the Council of Europe , and it was granted observer status on May 7 [ see below for Havel 's address on May 10 ] . |