Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 2 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 3 | Bob Weighill , the home unions secretary , added : ‘ It is not normal for rugby union players to work while on tour . ’ |
| 4 | In 1988 , Brenda admitted to the worry that her husband might be tempted to stray while on tour . |
| 5 | probability , at least ) to offend whilst on bail , and ( ii ) that a custodial remand is the only justifiable way of responding to this prediction , lesser methods of prevention ( e.g. through bail hostels or other methods ) being likely to fail ? |
| 6 | Would it be sensible for us to agree that on Monday of next week , we finalise , authorise and reissue procedures , that we discuss whatever Simon 's put to us now , and give feed back so that you can actually take the final documents next week and that Rita and Stella you take |
| 7 | The playgroup is a non-profit making organisation , and we rely heavily on the fees paid for children to attend and on fundraising . |
| 8 | The Knin assembly continued to function and on Feb. 21 voted to dismiss Paspalj and the assembly 's two vice-presidents , and also to replace Milan Martic as the Krajina " Interior Minister " after he ordered local militias to be placed under the command of the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) in preparation for the arrival of the UN force . |
| 9 | Feb. 19 , 1991 : Yeltsin called on Gorbachev to resign and on Feb. 22 up to 400,000 people joined a pro-democracy rally outside the Kremlin called by the " Democratic Russia " group [ see p. 38013 ] . |
| 10 | I always used to use that on babbies for , you know when they get cold and weepy eyes ? |
| 11 | In the briefing sessions students will be told what sort of activities they can expect to do while on Work Experience , and whom to contact should any problems arise . |
| 12 | Knowing the time the dot was in any particular position , Libet was able to calculate that on average the experience of the conscious intention to act was reported as beginning about 200 msec before the movement began . |
| 13 | He was the first to concede that on occasions a judge got it wrong to the extent that a sentence was passed which was wholly unacceptable . |
| 14 | The League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) appeared to be moving closer to collapse when on March 30 its central committee failed to muster a quorum for a plenary session . |
| 15 | We used to watch that on T V. |
| 16 | Just , it 's half an hour wanted to watch that on B B C two half past eight to nine o'clock . |
| 17 | The snag was , everything had seemed perfectly fine and reasonable written down in black and white — but the book had omitted to mention that on snow the skis took on a life all of their own . |
| 18 | Observers believe the confusion may have arisen because the original KGB ceased to exist as on January 1 and has been replaced by two separate agencies , both of which entered into negotiations to sell the files . |
| 19 | But I 'm very interested to learn that on Monday when er the Autobus did n't |
| 20 | Baroness Hooper 's letter stated that help with NHS charges for students were based on an individual assessment of ability to pay and on circumstances which existed at the time a claim was made . |
| 21 | Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . |
| 22 | Er the work that I 've referred to earlier in terms of the through traffic , was assessed before the southern bypass was open er and so we did put in place er a traffic automatic traffic counters on a number of key routes er to see whether on opening of the southern bypass , the actual effects er where the same as we were modelling cos clearly we were concerned that we did n't want to be er basing our assessments of of of of further relief roads on a false premise . |
| 23 | No I was saying if I was saying if I was going to spend that on raffle tickets , it would n't matter if I was getting |
| 24 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 25 | Neither effect is large , but the result is sufficiently different for us to feel uncomfortable about averaging the two effects ; it would not do justice to the situation to say that on average there was no effect of education once age was controlled . |
| 26 | It is worthy of note at this stage that on Mr t to say that on Mr calculations the figures for multiplier and multiplicand to the cost of total ca er of future care involved an addition to a total sum of one million two hundred and twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty five pounds and twenty eight pence . |
| 27 | Although such inferences are not always logically entirely unimpeachable , given the above premisses , the pluralist case becomes difficult to defend and on balance the only reasonable option seems to be Spinoza 's own unitarist alternative , viz. that there is only one substance which is in fact identical with the whole of reality , and that the only plurality there is or can be is the plurality of " attributes and modifications " . |
| 28 | Teachers of English offered more substantial criticisms of the literature chapter , and I have to admit that on occasions they had justification for their worries . |
| 29 | Summing up the case against 24 year old Shaun Gooch and 22 year old Anthony Gallagher the Prosecution at Gloucester Crown Court suggested to the jury that there was sufficient evidence to prove that on September 13th last year , they 'd been racing their cars along Akers Way in Swindon . |