Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | WE WERE sailing from the Queensland port of Cairns to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 2 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
| 3 | On occasions Strach has played on the left — To accomodate Hendrie in the promotion year , and when Batty , Macca had a go at right-back last season . |
| 4 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 5 | Forest boss Brian Clough has agreed on a swap deal involving Northern Ireland winger Kingsley Black going to Hillsborough plus £200,000 cash coming Forest 's way . |
| 6 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly conscious of the impact Lord Hanson 's 2.8pc stake in ICI has had on the company during the year the authors felt better advised to leave out any mention of the of m'lords takeover intentions of the company . |
| 8 | Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to join the airlines in smashing the pilots ' claim , seeing it as a crucial challenge to the cornerstone of his government 's economic policy , the wages accord between government , employers and unions . |
| 9 | Moreover , we now have a small centre of expertise , albeit part time , at the MU and , hopefully , the work that Steve Docker has done on the VC10 maintenance will continue now that he has left . |
| 10 | Electronic News hears that DEC has decided on the name Alpha AXP for the VAX successors to be built around the new chip . |
| 11 | Bernice agreed to lie on the ground and moan . |
| 12 | On behalf of the Inter-Regional Group of some 400 radical deputies , Mr Yevtushenko moved to include on the agenda discussion of Article 6 of the constitution , which enshrines the ‘ leading and guiding role ’ of the party . |
| 13 | As expected , Graeme Hick has prospered on the Indian tour and regained one essential ingredient — confidence . |
| 14 | WEST Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron has called on the security forces to step up their patrols in loyalist areas of Belfast in a bid to halt sectarian killings . |
| 15 | Felton declines to comment on the cost of producing a magazine lavish enough to make many editors green with envy , but says Shell underwrites 50 to 70 per cent of it . |
| 16 | At the moment , the moratorium that the United States has announced on the development of its tactical air-to-surface missile programme means that we would have great difficulty getting a credible system from the United States if we wanted one . |
| 17 | In part , the sense of Britishness seemed to rest on an often sentimental obeisance to the past , as shown in the flourishing ‘ heritage ’ industry of the eighties extending from Chaucer to Churchill , to the delight of tourists and the scorn of social critics . |
| 18 | Gorbachev declined to comment on the talks , other than to indicate that they had been inspired by the scale of the commercial links which already existed between their countries . |
| 19 | David began writing on a prescription pad . |
| 20 | Neill declined to comment on the sale or the suspension . |
| 21 | Corbett lay dozing on the bed , idly wondering what Maeve was doing , and thought again of Sister Agatha . |
| 22 | If Ince sorts out the midfield with Palmer , I 'll be amazed if Shearer and Wright fail to get on the scoresheet . |
| 23 | If Kipling had stood on the Kop |
| 24 | At the Franco-German summit Kohl and Mitterrand had called on the April 28 summit to convene an intergovernmental conference on political union for December 1990 , to coincide with the planned summit on economic and monetary union . |
| 25 | In the course of his visit to Sweden , Mandela had called on the international community to sever all diplomatic links with South Africa and to intensify sanctions in order to eliminate apartheid . |
| 26 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 27 | They used her shoulder-bag and the satchel Travis had found on the plane to pack them in . |
| 28 | I am not sure that I listened to much more of what Didier had to recount on the subject of Montaine 's death . |
| 29 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 30 | Thus Lipsey 's postulated relationship between the rate of change of money wages and excess demand in the labour market not only possessed appealing microeconomic credentials , it also seemed to accord with much of what Keynes had written on the subject of inflation . |