Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] on [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his collection of essays on genius the distinguished neurologist , the late Sir William Russell Brain , concluded about Smart that ‘ clearly he suffered from manic-depressive insanity or cyclothymia ’ and there is much to support that diagnosis . |
| 2 | The number of strikers receiving supplementary benefit has always constituted a very insignificant proportion of the total number of persons on strike the lowest figure was 0.12 per cent in 1962 and the highest was 14.46 per cent in 1972 which was the year of the miners ' strike . |
| 3 | This category is much more controversial and inherently implausible , as it contains the alleged abductions of humans on board a UFO . |
| 4 | A government team led by Foreign Minister Michael Somare signed an interim peace agreement on Aug. 5 , with a delegation representing the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) , following eight days of negotiations on board the New Zealand naval supply ship Endeavour . |
| 5 | The morning journey , in spite of the number of students on board the tram , was usually quiet . |
| 6 | The ‘ Alterations , Additions ’ etc. may have been corrections to bring closer into line with happenings on stage a publication seriously misleading as first issued — difficult to sell , when word got round . |
| 7 | The scandal had first come to light in mid-January when officers of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) had uncovered 12 new T-72 battle tanks in crates on board a freight train at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk , concealed as part of a shipment of scrap metal intended for export . |
| 8 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |