Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six smugglers , including William Carter , were hanged together on the Broyle outside Chichester on 19 January 1749 and their bodies gibbeted in chains around the county as a grim warning to other would-be smugglers . |
| 2 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 3 | As the freak end of the underground had dropped in on the LSE , so the politicos , or would-be politicos , packed their bags for Alexandra Palace . |
| 4 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 5 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 6 | * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] . |
| 7 | The only important road works that had to be carried out on the Penge lines comprised widening and strengthening the bridge over the railway at Anerley Station , cutting back the forecourts of Penge Police Station and property adjoining Penge Station ( I.B.S.C. Railway ) . |
| 8 | The 27-year-old Spaniard , who has won twice on the US Tour in the past , added : ‘ The rough is still too high for my liking , but is not set up as difficult as I 've seen US Open courses . |
| 9 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 10 | Northern fur seals have for centuries been exploited commercially on the Pribilov and other islands in the Bering Sea ; since 1911 stocks have been managed and exploitation limited under international agreement , providing a rare example of successful management of an international resource ( Young , 1981 ; Gulland , 1974 ) . |
| 11 | Both these cases might be decided similarly on the Seymour test , but that can not be said of Lamb ( 1967 ) . |
| 12 | Second Lieutenant Campana , whom we have seen earlier on the Mort Homme , recalls dispatching a ration party of eight men one night in March . |
| 13 | While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises . |
| 14 | Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas have the additional problem of being contained in an archipelago of sparsely populated islands , with literally dozens of remote airstrips and hundreds of miles of expensive-to-patrol coastline , situated directly on the Colombia to Florida flight path and shipping channels . |
| 15 | Other seed baits I have used successfully on the Severn are tares and maple peas , but I have not used the latter two very often and do not yet know if they are going to be consistently successful . |
| 16 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 17 | It is longer than it is wide , and it is modelled directly on the Parafoils . |
| 18 | During January 1989 , for example , over 500 bottlenose dolphins were washed up on the Atlantic coast of France . |
| 19 | The leading judgment is that of Winneke C.J. and Pape J. It is founded on an analysis — in my judgment , correct — of the tort of negligence by reference to decisions of the House of Lords and the Privy Council and certain Australian decisions , and it is founded also on the Montreal Tramways decision . |
| 20 | These were sturdy little cars and although used mainly on the Norbury — Purley and Thornton Heath lines in the early days , they could and did work anywhere on the system . |
| 21 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 22 | I 've almost given up on the London Borough of Bromley because the land , the areas that they 've offered us have been quite impractical and although we 've got , you know , croquet is a cheap sport . |
| 23 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 24 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 25 | He was summoned down on the Saturday evening and his presence at least had the effect of giving its a vignette of Baldwin 's behaviour on the eve of what was likely to be the most testing week of his premiership . |
| 26 | As the full impact of these figures was borne in on the DES , it reacted by successively cutting back teacher-training places in the colleges of education . |
| 27 | As the years passed , a rabbi from the New York yeshiva was imported to instruct the Reichmanns ' children in a rigorous six-day schedule of studies based largely on the Talmud . |
| 28 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 29 | Additional data collected inhouse on a Siemens/Xentronics area detector and at the SRS on an Enraf-Nonius FAST area detector ( detailed in ref.25 ) were merged with the IP SRS data for some of the stages of the structure determination but refinement and the current model are based solely on the IP SRS data . |
| 30 | Er the distribution within Greater York is based essentially on the Greater York study , which identified the number of sites in and around Greater York and allocated those to the appropriate districts . |