Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 2 | The arrangements for the expatriate and his family 's passage to and from the UK and for periods of leave during the assignment should be given together with information on the location of airports/ports . |
| 3 | Tickets could be bought in banks and shops , and booked long in advance on a computer , just like aircraft tickets . |
| 4 | Like subjects were grouped together ; thus Dewey 's scheme grouped together material on the electron and located it with material on other sub-atomic particles , which was grouped together with material on molecular and atomic physics in general , which was grouped together with other aspects of physics ; physics itself was in the science section of the scheme , together with other sciences . |
| 5 | It says that the discharges from the plant , which is run by British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , are carried upstream to Preston on the incoming tide and deposited in mudflats used by children to play . |
| 6 | The Sergeant informed me that No. 46 Royal Marine Commando had come ashore in Normandy on D-Day + 1 and had gone into action almost straight away at a spot further along the coast from here , against a crack German S.S. Unit ( Hitler Youth ) . |
| 7 | There was nothing unusual about MPs getting carried away during debates on crime and violence , however , or for the Speaker to find it necessary to call for ‘ Order ! ’ against ‘ shouts of sadistic enthusiasm ’ when whipping was on the agenda . |
| 8 | Seaview , a sprawling white villa that would have looked equally at home on some Greek island , was set high on a bluff overlooking the sea , poised like some magical fairy-tale castle , its silhouette sharp against the darkening autumn sky , at its feet the rocky shore that tumbled to the sea . |
| 9 | Her evidence about being telephoned late at night on 11 January 1987 ( when her husband answered and passed the receiver to her ) was that the caller was female and that the call lasted three to five minutes . |
| 10 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 11 | Called Double Drain , the board is designed primarily for use on vertical walls and structures in areas where there is a high water content in the ground . |
| 12 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 13 | The Free Curl cordless styling Brush , Free Curl cordless styling Tong and Free Curl cordless combination Brush and Tong have been designed specifically for women on the move which makes them so easy to travel with . |
| 14 | The technique of satyāgrahi was applied successfully by Gandhi on may occasions . |
| 15 | In the circumstances the latter was unlikely : he had not done so in May on an infinitely more difficult decision . |
| 16 | Dudley Morgan describes how the Group has done so by building on its DP experience and resources in other applications — particularly payroll — and by identifying the practical information needs of personnel management . |
| 17 | The Guardian newspaper , in partnership with the Royal Institute for the Blind and associates has launched a system that enables the entire editorial text of the newspaper to be transmitted nightly via Teletext on Channel 4 television 's frequencies to a personal computer , which can read the text in a synthesised voice to blind and partially sighted people : those that can afford an £8,000 Braille terminal can also read the text that way , and it can also be displayed in large print on the screen for those with poor sight ; the text is structured so that readers can scan the headlines and choose the items that interest them ; the paper will be marketed , serviced and supported by Electronic Text Networks Associates Ltd of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , a commercial venture one third owned by the Guardian and the charity ; the other shareholders , each with a third share , are Aptech Ltd , which specialises in computer aids for disabled people , and Intelligent Research Ltd , which made the hardware for the system ; the decoder board for the personal computer is £400 , plus about £500 for a speech synthesizer ; the annual subscription to the electronic paper is £160 and the partners hope that other papers will decide to go onto the system . |
| 18 | Every one of the nine sources was rated best for information on the issues and worst for helping people decide how to vote . |
| 19 | It is seen here at Rossall on its final tour in January 1963 . |
| 20 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 21 | In Scandinavia , at this time , development was slower , the cities poorer and smaller , universities late to appear and the prime force in life was commercial , seen chiefly in dependence on the Hanseatic League . |
| 22 | The two Cabinets had met jointly in San'aa on Jan. 20-22 and in Aden on March 21 , while impetus was also given by the opening of the border [ see p. 37266 ] , by meetings between Saleh and al-Bid in Ta'izz on March 8 and in Aden on May 1 , and between the respective Prime Ministers in San'aa on May 1-4 , and by progress made in joint committees at ministerial level . |
| 23 | Diversion is seen firstly in discussion on the costs of treatment rather than the costs of continuing as before . |
| 24 | This stock taking leaves us positioned inconclusively between alarm on the one hand and complacency on the other . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the figures given yesterday for expenditure on the national health service , education and transport show our clear commitment to expenditure on those items ? |
| 26 | Strip grazing is used widely for cattle on kale , but is less popular with mixed stock or sheep on grass . |
| 27 | The fugitive and his boatmen had been washed ashore at Rossinish on Benbecula , in April , after a night of violent storms in the Minch : |
| 28 | Many American students working in British drama schools find the answer to this question by using what is called ‘ standard American ’ , and this approach is being used now in training on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 29 | Stooges are used increasingly in research on how general practitioners and pharmacists perform , and some famous studies have depended on substantial deception . |
| 30 | It was crowded too with holiday-makers on package tours , all eager to fling themselves on the nearest beach and sweat their way into a tan . |