Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to play on the US Tour eventually , too , and the Americans do n't care how much money you have won . |
| 3 | The two are source , but not binary compatible , and Sparc applications will have to be re-compiled to run on the Intel version , indeed to take advantage of Unix SVR4 features , existing SunOS operating system users will have to migrate their applications to Solaris 2.0 via the Transition pack announced recently by SunPro ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 4 | This activity has earned the gratitude and , indeed , the respect of hacks such as myself , who have come to rely on the OHE 's booklets and fact sheets and other publications as accurate and marvellously convenient source material . |
| 5 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 6 | Clive Thompson , chief executive of Rentokil , said the company was only a small player in the US timber preserving market and had decided to concentrate on the UK , European and Asian markets where Rentokil has large market shares . |
| 7 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 8 | He had kept away from the house , not wanting to intrude on the Bonnards ' private grief . |
| 9 | You 'd g had to parade on the Sunday erm for weapon training , and one Sunday we earlier on , we had n't fired a rifle , so it was arranged for us to fire a rifle at a rifle range . |
| 10 | Many other companies intend to vote on the Taurus resolutions at their 1992 agms . |
| 11 | I like to shop on the Kilburn High Road . |
| 12 | From January 1987 a system of periodic licensing was introduced , whereby nurses , midwives and health visitors wishing to remain on the SPR , and so maintain their eligibility to practise , must pay a periodic fee every three years . |
| 13 | E/3 all-metal cars began to appear on the Thornton Heath route 42 . |
| 14 | They will be invited to vote on the Ford takeover terms and also to change the company 's articles of association to allow a single investor to buy more than 15 per cent of the shares at an extraordinary meeting scheduled for December 1 . |
| 15 | A service by flying boat was scheduled to commence on the July 1950 between Southampton and Leith but the service was postponed indefinitely due to lack of support . |
| 16 | Moreover , had he accepted an offer from the National Gallery , Mr Walsh would have abandoned the biggest museum construction project in the world , the $1 billion headquarters now beginning to rise on the Getty 's oceanside compound ( The Art Newspaper No. 12 , November 1991 , p. 4 ) . |
| 17 | Rhoda Annie Dent was her full name and I understand she was once invited to speak on the Queen Mary during one voyage . |
| 18 | Companies wishing to register on the EC eco-audit scheme will have to lodge an externally verified environmental statement with a competent body and Coles is hoping the IEA could take on the role of approving accredited verifiers . |
| 19 | To see the full series , we will have to wait on the BBC , who have bought Twin Peaks with the rights to show it anytime after November . |
| 20 | Arguments continue to rage on the Ryder Cup side , yet Gallacher 's men are quite capable of winning back the trophy . |
| 21 | In thanking the groups , Hasan Kaker said : ‘ The continuous pressure which you and other human rights organizations brought to bear on the Kabul government ultimately resulted in my release … |
| 22 | AT first glance , it would appear that things are actually starting to roll on the London stock market . |
| 23 | Asked to comment on the Independent 's report that Libyan terrorists had put the bomb aboard Flight 103 by means of an unaccompanied bag sent from Malta , Aviv himself thought it was yet another attempt to distract attention from the truth . |
| 24 | LETTERS then is a ‘ 2nd cycle ’ isomorphic with the ‘ lst ’ ’ , a recycling of Barth 's earlier characters whose destinies are expanded and brought to bear on the America of the late 1960s ( Barth 1980a : 656 ) . |
| 25 | An hour in ‘ Birdland provides conclusive proof that this lot 's link with the thigh-slapping world of rhinestones , rodeos and people who say things like ‘ yee-haw ’ is immaterial — the best label to stick on The Rockingbirds reader ‘ very good band who 'll be around for ages ’ . |
| 26 | So all the traffic that used that as a rat run to get on the East Lancs Road |
| 27 | Gould grew to depend on the Aborigines ' local knowledge to find birds that were new to the Western world and to learn about their habits . |
| 28 | 1.3 These Conditions shall override any contrary different or additional terms or conditions ( if any ) contained on or referred to in an order form or other documents or correspondence from the Purchaser , and no addition alteration or substitution of these terms will bind the Seller or form part of any Order unless they are expressly accepted in writing by a person authorised to sign on the Seller 's behalf . |
| 29 | Speaking in the bar of a five-star hotel in Marbella , Yasmin Gibson , a bit-part actress , said that even though her daughter Gemma was now in the care of the local authority , she planned to stay on the Costa del Sol until the end of her holiday in two weeks . |
| 30 | It was fortunate that the longer wheelbase cars had been removed to work on the Sutton route as they were longer and of larger capacity than the Corporation cars and would certainly have given trouble on the section between Selby Road and West Croydon , which was all single track with short passing loops . |