Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 2 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 3 | Its opposition was overruled at this stage however by a majority of the Member States , who agreed to start work on EMU and Political Union in two parallel inter-governmental conferences , which opened at Rome in December 1990 . |
| 4 | Quite a lot of people listened to light music on Radio Luxembourg . |
| 5 | Indeed one of the best comments I remember on this subject came two or three years ago from Mats Wilander , another who struggled to find form on grass courts and might also be one of those happy to see them disappear . |
| 6 | Buoyed by an election victory in which the Opposition 's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament had appeared a vote loser , the Government proceeded to deploy cruise on schedule in 1983 . |
| 7 | DAVE HEYES and Peter Potter combined to keep Carborundum on top of the West Lancashire Cricket League . |
| 8 | It aimed to gather material on consumer perspectives on shopping , which would provide a basis for advice given to local co-operatives . |
| 9 | The easiest part is to work out what would happen to the waters of the lake itself ; but for this , Dr Hollis had to pool information on rainfall , evaporation , the flow and salinity of the rivers , and the level , volume , and salinity of the lake , over as many years as possible ( in practice thirty ) and feed this into a computer . |
| 10 | It had lent money on mortgage for the purpose of an apparently genuine sale . |
| 11 | A resistance leader in the eight-year colonial war against France , Ben Bella had become President on independence in 1962 . |
| 12 | He remained an extraordinarily influential one-man pressure group and continued to give evidence on prison conditions to the House of Commons . |
| 13 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 14 | Those patients who had achieved remission on elemental diet relapsed earlier than those who had attained remission on prednisolone ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 15 | But the tension in the atmosphere had nothing to do with the events which had taken place on board earlier that day . |
| 16 | Prof Sargent said that for the past five years , Croda Universal — the British company which has produced the oil — had funded research on ALD at the university . |
| 17 | Ironically , those high prices resulted in the unexpected rift with Kirkman who had paid cash on delivery before placing the new work among a waiting list of eager clients . |