Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun pl] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations with Turkey had been strained since Oct. 1 , 1989 when the Turkish President , Turgut Ozal ( at the time Prime Minister ) , hinted that Turkey might reduce the flow of the Euphrates River if Syria failed to curb the attacks on Turkey by Kurdish separatists from Syrian-occupied eastern Lebanon . |
| 2 | By the time that the OEEC Council agreed in October 1957 to set up the so-called Maudling Committee , named after Reginald Maudling who was appointed by the British premier , Harold Macmillan , in July 1957 to conduct the negotiations on Britain 's proposals for a wider free trade area , the Six had in a sense already passed the point of no return . |
| 3 | I had to react in a split second , so I was a bit hurt to see the papers on Tuesday morning suggesting that my actions in that one second cost England the Test match . |
| 4 | " I shall be going to see the builders on Monday , " she began . |
| 5 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 6 | Of course there is money coming in — the shipping company makes money , though not enough to meet the losses on Ingard investments . |
| 7 | The Quebec government ordered the Army to dismantle the barricades on Aug. 27 , having refused to accede to the Mohawks ' additional demands that they be treated as a sovereign nation during negotiations and be granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 8 | Burun started to clean the cuts on Suragai 's hands . |
| 9 | The Department of Health intends to screen the ads on RTE as part of a national campaign aimed at preventing the spread of AIDS . |
| 10 | I think they want to sell the papers on Saturday . |
| 11 | Fifteen Darlington dentists are to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the plans on Monday . |
| 12 | The regional council 's finance and policy and resources committees will meet to discuss the recommendations on Wednesday . |
| 13 | Nigel Roberts , Brymbo 's dynamic match-winner , is one of six full Welsh international looking to put the blocks on Flintshire 's bid for a repeat appearance in the final . |
| 14 | It will be Bingham 's greatest-ever triumph against the odds if his re-emerging team manage to put the brakes on Jack Charlton 's drive to the United States finals next year . |
| 15 | ‘ You need to turn the tables on Cawthorne if you really want to stitch him up . ’ |
| 16 | What else was plain , though , was that she had wasted her time in trying to turn the tables on Naylor Massingham by hinting that , jobless , she might set up home with Travis . |
| 17 | The NZRFU council was due to appoint the selectors on December 14 . |
| 18 | Harris , 49 , who was appointed by the board to assess the charges on December 10 , retired from Microsoft Corp in 1987 . |
| 19 | Administration officials said that an emergency meeting of the National Security Council ( NSC ) considered deploying US troops to back the rebels on Tuesday , but decided against it . |
| 20 | Alternatively , there may be sufficient capital but too much of it is tied up in plant , buildings or slow moving or non-moving stock with not enough left over to pay the wages on Friday . |
| 21 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |
| 22 | After a session on March 26-27 , the ICJ was due to resume the hearings on April 4 . |