Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acres of newsprint and countless hours of air time became filled with elucidations on the new technology , some of them distinctly bizarre . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from industrialists on Government intervention in the strategic direction and investment in companies . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend has commented in detail on the transcript of that hearing , including the statements by the witness , Mr. Farrell ; the differences of opinion about the handwriting on the receipt ; whether someone might have stolen the receipt book and forged the receipt ; unsupported allegations about previous examples of Mr. Brand 's paperwork being missing ; and the apparent lack of follow-up to the mother 's original letter . |
| 4 | But right now what is needed is a bottom-up approach ; entrusting the forests to those increasingly organised peoples whose survival has depended for generations on environmental knowledge . |
| 5 | As university funding has come to hinge on publication , this has been encouraged for its own sake . |
| 6 | She is the sisters ' friend and mine , too , she has come to tea on my birthday . |
| 7 | Evidence supporting the theory has come from experiments on the interaction of sleep loss with other manipulations known to increase arousal level , such as incentives and noise . |
| 8 | Mr Harvey McGregor has said in McGregor on Damages , ( 15th ed Sweet & Maxwell 1988 , para 1588 ) : It may be argued that the benefit of a mother 's personal attention to a child 's upbringing , morals , education and psychology , which the services of a housekeeper , nurse or governess could never provide has , in the long run , a financial value for the child difficult as it is to assess . |
| 9 | My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . |
| 10 | Ms Radice will implement her policy by vetoing aberrant grants among the 1,122 ( totalling $66.1 million ) that the National Council on the Arts has approved for funding on the recommendations of peer panels . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will indicate the nature and range of discussions he has had with OFTEL on the length of time customers have had to wait to have their telephones repaired ; what changes in waiting time there have been in the last seven years ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 12 | THE world 's first museum to the humble sardine has opened at Grau-du-Roi on the coast of southern France — and is hoping to be tightly packed with thousands of visitors . |
| 13 | Revolution has occurred in nations on the verge of entry into capitalism , not in societies which are mature and ‘ ripe ’ for change . |
| 14 | Recently he has acted as consultant on the hit West End musical Miss Saigon ( transfer to Broadway expected soon ) , the story of a love affair between a GI and a Vietnamese bar girl which has been condemned by some critics as exploitative . |
| 15 | The former leader of the Liberal Party , Lord Grimond , has died in hospital on Orkney at the age of eighty . |
| 16 | The German Mining Union , for its part , has called for curbs on imported coal in order to increase indigenous coal sales to the electricity generating industry — some 10 million tonnes of cheaper foreign coal came into Germany in 1982 . |
| 17 | Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done . |
| 18 | Séguin too has contributed to books on the subject of the Community 's future , the latest being De l ‘ Europe en général et de la France en particulier ( Le pré aux Clercs , 1992 ) . |
| 19 | Our discussion in the previous four chapters has focused in turn on the substance and implementation of each of the aims of the Primary Needs Programme as set out by Leeds LEA in 1985 and as reinforced in numerous contexts subsequently . |
| 20 | He has spoken with authority on other transport-related Bills . |
| 21 | While his former Ibrox team-mates bask in the glory of European Cup conflict , Johnston has slipped into obscurity on Merseyside after starting only four games this season . |
| 22 | The daughter of a judge has appeared in court on four separate drugs charges . |
| 23 | Paris : beauty and the beastly Grunge has descended into grot on the Paris catwalks this week . |
| 24 | Their fascination with dinosaurs has led to discussions on conservation and ecology , writing their own stories and practise in drawing from observation . |
| 25 | Most of the modest expenditure since 1970 has gone into ESA on joint projects . |
| 26 | and that maybe something your Lordship may wish to consider , I 'm a little bit baffled as to why my learned friend has gone for cases on interim measures , we 're not seeking interim relief , we have n't sorted interim injunction , erm to suspend the validity of any particular measure that was the basis of all of his case |
| 27 | A driving examiner has gone on trial on four charges of indecent assault . |
| 28 | c ) A superstore manager has worked with students on a site analysis project . |
| 29 | They included illustrator Walter Crane , woodcutter Claire Leighton , illustrator and mural painter Eric Ravilious , architect Keith Murray , graphic designer and water-colourist David Gentleman , and Eduardo Paolozzi who has worked with Wedgwood on several occasions since the 1970s . |
| 30 | MARK ROBSON , the winger signed by Tottenham from Exeter for £50,000 in July 1987 , has signed for Watford on a month 's loan with a view to a permanent transfer . |