Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEADING UDA figures in West Belfast have gone into hiding following a police swoop on the organisation 's headquarters on the Shankill Road . |
| 2 | A stock index represents the market 's estimate of the present value of the subsequent cash flows expected from the constituent companies , while the current price of a futures contract on an index for delivery at time T represents the market 's estimate of the present value at time T of the subsequent cash flows . |
| 3 | B. Black obtains the result that E ( F t +l ; - F t ) = [ E ( R M ) - r ] β i , where β i = cov[ ( F t +l ; - F t ) , R M ] , while Duffie obtains E ( F T - F t ) = [ E ( E T ) - , where = Cov ( E T F T ) /Var ( E T ) , E T is aggregate terminal wealth and F t M is the price at time t of a futures contract on aggregate terminal wealth . |
| 4 | This is most clearly the case with NATO policy , which relies on possible first use of nuclear weapons and thus opposes one of the most obvious candidates for a laws-of-war rule on nuclear weaponry — namely , no first use . |
| 5 | The basis of her legal case was that this condition had been caused by a motor accident four months before her birth in which her mother lost control of a pick-up truck during a cattle muster on the family ranch . |
| 6 | ( First Edition ) Nine men arrested during a police raid on the Broadwater Farm housing estate in north London were remanded on bail by Haringey magistrates on charges ranging from assault to threatening behaviour and obstruction . |
| 7 | Virtually everyone sings with a clothes peg on their nose and a space Cockney accent , no-one is very happy and Mr Synthesiser is given a free rein . |
| 8 | POLICE arrested nine men in a drugs raid on the Empire pub in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | In 1927–28 , the Cambridge and Ipswich Tutorial Classes in Biology participated in a six-talks broadcast on The Problems of Heredity given by Mary Adams , then tutor to the Cambridge branch . |
| 10 | At high rates of interest , people may feel it worthwhile to put some of their income in a savings account on pay day and draw it out again as they need it later in the month . |
| 11 | They were seized in a police raid on his home . |
| 12 | Later more obscene material was seized in a police raid on his home . |
| 13 | One front-page exclusive in the Daily Mirror reported that child porn photos involving two top television stars were uncovered in a police raid on a photographic studio . |
| 14 | Though the apolitical villain was fairly quickly apprehended , Churchill 's portrait has just been discovered in a police raid on a suspected handler . |
| 15 | The HCR was responding to a proposals made on Aug. 26 by a Joint Consultative Commission which comprised members of the former ruling party , the Rassemblement du peuple togolais ( RPT ) , and eight opposition parties . |
| 16 | They told reporters that they were protesting at a police attack on the demonstrators at the Guildhall . |
| 17 | VXM claims a CPU-intensive subroutine created using PVM and executing on a cluster of mixed network environments could be accessed by a applications running on systems running ToolTalk services . |
| 18 | Some of these issues were tested in the case of Moss v. McLachlan in which a group of picketing miners travelling in convoy were stopped by a police cordon on the M1 motorway and requested to turn back . |