Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only green shoots seen so far have been the slightly faster growth of notes and coin in circulation , which is partly the result of the fall in interest rates which can be earned on money in the bank . |
| 2 | Information disclosed on discovery in legal proceedings is clearly held under an obligation of confidence and may be used only for the purpose of those proceedings . |
| 3 | In 1959–60 intermediate range ballistic missiles were located on sites in Turkey pending the development of reliable American ICBMs . |
| 4 | The apparent indecision was blamed on difficulties in working out travel arrangements for her to make the return trip to Scotland in one day . |
| 5 | The worst damage to hulls etc. had been reported on arrival in the area after last night 's operation , and the troop 's attached REME Forward Repair Team had worked on for hours after most others had taken to their sleeping bags . |
| 6 | So , in this study , the more able children added on steps in addition at 3 to 5 times the speed of the less able children . |
| 7 | Rozanov and I on another extraordinarily fine autumn morning , perched on stools in a grimy Soho café . |
| 8 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 9 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 10 | They were all sat on boxes in front of the Family Stand , making sure toddlers did n't stage a mass sit-down protest on the pitch . |
| 11 | VIOLENT criminals should be paraded on television in a modern-day version of the stocks , Phil Gallie , the Conservative MP for Ayr , demanded yesterday . |
| 12 | A section of the bank employees ' trade union voted on Feb. in favour of strike action after claims for salary increases in excess of 10 per cent were countered by an offer from the banks of only 5 per cent , plus a one-off lump sum payment of DM300 ( nearly US$200 ) . |
| 13 | President Nixon , whose grasp of such matters was immortalized on tape in ‘ Well , I do n't give a [ expletive deleted ] about the lira ’ ( quoted Williamson , 1977 , p. 175 ) , responded on 15 August 1971 by suspending indefinitely the convertibility of the dollar into gold . |
| 14 | Thieves who broke into a car parked on Skinnergate in Darlington on Thursday night stole clothes worth more than £200 and a radio-cassette player valued at £130 . |
| 15 | The allies calculate that they have already dropped on Iraqi targets about one-quarter of the total tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany in the whole of the second world war , and destroyed one-third of Iraq 's tanks and artillery in Kuwait . |
| 16 | A total of 41,440 tons of bombs were dropped on Germany in 1942 , rising to 206,000 tons in 1943 , and 1,202,000 tons in 1944 . |
| 17 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 18 | There is a possibility that dun Galloways , which were traditionally fattened on turnips in East Anglia in large numbers in the nineteenth century , contributed to the now extinct Suffolk Dun which was part-originator of the Red Poll . |
| 19 | Author Brian Hoey , a former BBC Court correspondent , gives an insight into how royals like Charles and Di are tracked on journeys in bugged cars . |
| 20 | According to Godoy , the government decided on peace in 1795 because it was alarmed by Picornell 's republican conspiracy in Madrid and rumours of republican , pro-French committees in the north . |
| 21 | Indeed , the Phillips curve did seem to conform with much of what Keynes had written on inflation in the years after the General Theory , the most illuminating example of which is the pamphlet How to Pay for the War ( 1940 ) . |
| 22 | There have been many books written on diet in relation to weight loss , and therefore one may justifiably ask why there is a need for another book on the subject . |
| 23 | Little of scholarly value has been written on crime in colonial South Asia , but the work which is available has shown a strong positive relationship between property crime , including robbery , and depressed economic conditions . |
| 24 | Some were shot on location in shanty towns or marginal neighbourhoods . |
| 25 | Though some of the exteriors for the film were shot on location in the real Bodega Bay , north of San Francisco , and neighbouring hamlets , the town as seen in the overhead shot does not actually exist . |
| 26 | Shot on location in Tunisia . |
| 27 | A film that was shot on location in the region is being hailed by critics as a classic . |
| 28 | Unlike the nineteen thirty-nine version for which the moors were re-created in Hollywood , this one was shot on location in north Yorkshire . |
| 29 | This adaptation of the classic Russian novel by Nikolai Gogol is RTE 's first ‘ home-produced ’ feature , shot on location in Co Wicklow . |
| 30 | Unlike the Daleks , whose ray gun effects were supplied electronically , the Mechonoids actually had working flame throwers — hence why the battle scene in Episode Six had to be shot on film in the controlled environment of Ealing studios . |