Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For extraction of platelet activating factor and platelet activating factor precursors , gastric juice samples were immediately mixed on ice with 100% ethanol ( 1 vol:4 vol ) and kept at -20°C until platelet activating factor assay . |
| 2 | On Aug. 24 the NEC announced that fresh elections would take place in three rounds between Sept. 12 and Sept. 26 , when voting would only be permitted on production of membership cards which would be issued to party members in the interim . |
| 3 | So we 're trying to encourage the equipment suppliers now to look again at what they have won on business for Eurofighter and perhaps allocate the work between themselves a lot more efficiently so that instead of each one of the four members building a given percentage of the five items , they say right we 'll take this one , all of it and we 'll build all of it , you take that one , all of it and build that one and so on an and in that way we might be able to er er improve considerably on the costs of production . |
| 4 | That was won on appeal after withdrawal of the highway reasons , and the fact that the local authority had n't backed up their refusal with more of the reasons which we put forward , for instance |
| 5 | Spent day boating on lake in Champex annoying local fishermen with our attempts at the world speed record for pedal boats . |
| 6 | Derek Fairfax learned of Maurice Abberley 's death from a headline in the Financial Times : LADRAM SHARES SLIP ON NEWS OF CHAIRMAN 'S MURDER . |
| 7 | I can tell my hon. Friend that pensioners ' incomes from occupational pensions — for those who have them — rose on average from £13.90 a week in 1979 to £27.70 in 1988 . |
| 8 | Please your worships , I appear on behalf of Mr Smith this morning . |
| 9 | Mr Lee , to add to his swagger , has also been hired to lecture on film at Harvard . |
| 10 | Announcing on television on Jan. 10 that martial law was being lifted , Li Peng , Premier of the State Council , said that social order had returned to normal and that a " great victory " had been won in " quelling the counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 11 | Similarly , if a firm 's name keeps on appearing on behalf of plaintiffs against major local factories , you can be fairly sure that they are retained on behalf of a union . |
| 12 | Although his trousers might acquire or lose turnups and more or less leg width ; his shirt evolve from plain white to a variety of colours and patterns , along with minor ( but crucial ) alterations to collar cut ; and his ties perform similar minuets together with the length of his hair , he did not ever , unless actually appearing on stage in Swan Lake , have to make a big thing of — his big thing . |
| 13 | As far as BCCI is concerned , it is understood that a very high proportion of the loans made by BCCI have some sort of deposit associated , and this will obviously make a substantial difference to the amount which can be claimed on behalf of BCCI . |
| 14 | For example , I have not concentrated much on the work of Steven Jones and related experiments that claim to see neutrons at levels near to background ; if real , they are of interest to science but have nothing to offer as such solutions to the world 's energy problems , at least not in the grandiose form claimed on behalf of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 15 | I report on tuberculosis in health care workers in central France . |
| 16 | Drawing of same man ( NI reader ) as a contraceptive salesman knocking on door of household full of people — looking out of windows , pressing past the women who opens the door , etc . |
| 17 | Hirst 's knocking on door of Number 10 |
| 18 | I apologise on behalf of Council to the members of the press who are here , and to the Council officers who have to endure this and I am only grateful that there are not members of the public here to witness this total farce . |
| 19 | There were , the wedding would come off right enough but the reception would linger on night after night |
| 20 | If predators find it difficult to concentrate on prey in schools , then they should become more efficient if some members of the school are made easier to concentrate upon . |
| 21 | This will permit Burston to concentrate on production of feed for monogastric livestock , pig and poultry . |
| 22 | Most attempts at theory and empirical work have , however , tended to concentrate on investment in plant and machinery , particularly in the manufacturing sector . |
| 23 | The 31-year-old Tynesider intends to concentrate on training until June 17 , when he plans to race in Verona . |
| 24 | Two quizzed on riddle of Rachel |
| 25 | There 'll be a statement in the procedure that Richard is going to write on behalf of Jenny . |
| 26 | The parents will be interviewed on attitude to child , values in parenting and views of the intervention ; the social worker on their views of parenting and of specific family ; and the children on their understanding of the intervention and attitude towards their parents . |
| 27 | Interviewed on television on Nov. 21 , the South Korean Defence Minister , Lee Jong-koo , said that the two sides had agreed on " considerably intensified measures " to halt the North 's nuclear programme but denied any plan to use military force . |
| 28 | Phelips died ; Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset [ q.v. ] , was disgraced ; and in 1626 he reported on Parliament to Sir Dudley Carleton ( later Viscount Dorchester , q.v . ) . |
| 29 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 30 | If he is to succeed , Simpson might have to rely heavily on his father , Gordon Simpson , a former finance director of Shell who has come on board as deputy chairman . |