Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 2 | The two are source , but not binary compatible , and Sparc applications will have to be re-compiled to run on the Intel version , indeed to take advantage of Unix SVR4 features , existing SunOS operating system users will have to migrate their applications to Solaris 2.0 via the Transition pack announced recently by SunPro ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 3 | This activity has earned the gratitude and , indeed , the respect of hacks such as myself , who have come to rely on the OHE 's booklets and fact sheets and other publications as accurate and marvellously convenient source material . |
| 4 | Clive Thompson , chief executive of Rentokil , said the company was only a small player in the US timber preserving market and had decided to concentrate on the UK , European and Asian markets where Rentokil has large market shares . |
| 5 | You 'd g had to parade on the Sunday erm for weapon training , and one Sunday we earlier on , we had n't fired a rifle , so it was arranged for us to fire a rifle at a rifle range . |
| 6 | They will be invited to vote on the Ford takeover terms and also to change the company 's articles of association to allow a single investor to buy more than 15 per cent of the shares at an extraordinary meeting scheduled for December 1 . |
| 7 | A service by flying boat was scheduled to commence on the July 1950 between Southampton and Leith but the service was postponed indefinitely due to lack of support . |
| 8 | Rhoda Annie Dent was her full name and I understand she was once invited to speak on the Queen Mary during one voyage . |
| 9 | In thanking the groups , Hasan Kaker said : ‘ The continuous pressure which you and other human rights organizations brought to bear on the Kabul government ultimately resulted in my release … |
| 10 | Asked to comment on the Independent 's report that Libyan terrorists had put the bomb aboard Flight 103 by means of an unaccompanied bag sent from Malta , Aviv himself thought it was yet another attempt to distract attention from the truth . |
| 11 | So all the traffic that used that as a rat run to get on the East Lancs Road |
| 12 | 1.3 These Conditions shall override any contrary different or additional terms or conditions ( if any ) contained on or referred to in an order form or other documents or correspondence from the Purchaser , and no addition alteration or substitution of these terms will bind the Seller or form part of any Order unless they are expressly accepted in writing by a person authorised to sign on the Seller 's behalf . |
| 13 | It was fortunate that the longer wheelbase cars had been removed to work on the Sutton route as they were longer and of larger capacity than the Corporation cars and would certainly have given trouble on the section between Selby Road and West Croydon , which was all single track with short passing loops . |
| 14 | Hitchcock 's fondness for artifice , and latterly for extended European holidays combined with location filming , met with a setback in Torn Curtain ( 1966 ) , a spy story that was meant to comment on the Burgess and Maclean scandal of the early 1950s , but went wrong in scripting and casting . |
| 15 | Unemployed workers were encouraged to look on the NUWM as a " trade union of the unemployed " acting as far as possible as their representative . |
| 16 | It was forced to land on the Sedco 700 drilling rig , which is doing work for Shell in the East Shetland Basin . |
| 17 | Surprise has been expressed in some quarters that Mr Zilligen has been allowed to stay on the Ferranti board given his key role at ISC during the £215m deception . |
| 18 | Already the noises of complaint coming from Down Under have begun to register on the Richter Scale . |