Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |
| 2 | Strict standards of pollution control are relaxed for those " offenders " who are committed to spending money on improving methods of sewage treatment . |
| 3 | In a disagreeable episode which remains very obscure , Green in 1803 became involved with a woman called Agnes Brathwaite , on whose ‘ abominable perjuries ’ he was committed to Kendal jail on 24th August . |
| 4 | In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported . |
| 5 | A referendum would give the membership views but Council , whilst spending madly on the Hay Report , would no doubt object to spending money on a democratic exercise which might upset cherished opinion . |
| 6 | Moving on to the smaller lifeboats Mr Vernon referred to development work on a 22ft version of the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable at the RNLI 's Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Winston Scott has been transferred to Albany prison on the Isle of Wight , where he was on hunger strike for a week after being placed in solitary confinement . |
| 8 | Indeed , almost any investigation is likely to lead to results conditional on a range of alternative assumptions . |
| 9 | The UK government welcomed the release and expressed the hope that it would be followed by the release of a British businessman , Ian Richter ) , sentenced to life imprisonment on bribery and economic charges in 1986 . |
| 10 | Douglas Brand , a British engineer who was on May 13 sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying , was released on June 20 . |
| 11 | In the continuing campaign against the Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas , 10 men and three women were sentenced to life imprisonment on Dec. 11 . |
| 12 | According to Rabat radio on Dec. 2 , 98.83 per cent of the Moroccan electorate voted in the referendum , of whom 99.98 per cent favoured the two-year extension . |
| 13 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 14 | Ipswich did their homework by following the example of East Anglian neighbours Norwich , who came to Villa Park on Saturday and smothered the Villa pair into submission by employing a sweeper . |
| 15 | They came to Raasay House on the evening of Wednesday , 8 September , and stayed for four nights , a shorter stay than their first spell on Skye . |
| 16 | Alan reached his 100th League game for the Palace when Arsenal came to Selhurst Park on Faster Saturday 1990 , can always be relied upon to give one hundred per cent in the Palace cause and is now a firmly established 1st Division player . |
| 17 | When Coleman drove to Atlanta airport on 13 June to meet Mary-Claude , Giselle and Sarah off the plane from Lebanon , he had a distinct suspicion that his usefulness as a DIA agent in the Middle East was at an end . |
| 18 | Do you want to talk to James Whale on the radio ? |
| 19 | Challenge to UN resolution on Zionism |
| 20 | First commercial gas sales were made to Alliance Gas on September 1 . |
| 21 | However , it has been estimated that it is 93% accurate when published , declining to 85% accuracy on the last day of validity . |
| 22 | This opened to goods traffic on 28 August 1861 . |
| 23 | This was accepted and the line opened to passenger traffic on 14 July . |
| 24 | At low altitude they work like conventional jets , switching to rocket power on the edge of space . |
| 25 | The taxpayers were assessed to income tax on the cash equivalent of an amount equal to the cost of the benefit less the amount made good by the employee under s 61(1) , FA 1976 . |
| 26 | The Prudential was assessed to stamp duty on the consideration for both the land and all building works on the grounds that the two agreements were a single commercial transaction , the substance of which was the sale of the developed site to the Prudential by the developers . |
| 27 | Priced at £4.95 a bottle which when diluted equals 82p per usable litre , AirX is claimed to be good value , say the manufacturers , when compared to spending money on products that only mask smells . |
| 28 | The two Canadians may have the sentenced reduced to life imprisonment on appeal . |
| 29 | Greens appeal to BR boss on rail crossing |
| 30 | Start again , but this time , for the first needle brought to working position on the ribber , select the one that remained out-of-work at the end of the first pattern repeat . |