Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID my National Service with a Guards regiment on the East German border in 1948 — but there was still some fraternisation with the Russians , usually in the bar at some remote border village . |
| 2 | Imports fell by 8 per cent ; the trade surplus reached US$976 million , with a balance-of-payments surplus on the current account of $389 million . |
| 3 | The court will allocate a file number to the case and endorse a date for a hearing or a directions appointment on the copies for service . |
| 4 | He also commented that Spain 's integration into Europe was unthinkable until the country had a telecommunications network on a par with the networks existing in the rest of the European Community countries . |
| 5 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 6 | On Wednesday evening there was a sports programme on the BBC World Service , and Saturday was the day of the football results . |
| 7 | Yes , we 're planning a pokes section on the Megatape . |
| 8 | After Hadrian 's Wall was built , they would have helped to control traffic on Dere Street passing through the Portgate , a customs post on the Wall similar to that at Knag Burn near Housesteads . |
| 9 | There were times in the past when projects for Scottish independence seemed to involve things like passport checks and a customs post on the border between Berwick and the Solway Firth . |
| 10 | On May 18 a Byelorussian policeman was shot dead by Lithuanian personnel at a customs post on the Byelorussia-Lithuania border . |
| 11 | The general rule is that no one may use a goods vehicle on a road for the carriage of goods for hire or reward , or for or in connexion with any trade or business carried on by him , except under an operator 's licence ( commonly known as an O licence ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I am very pleased at the progress made and hope the concept of a watersports centre on the Lagan becomes a reality in the near future , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe they should build a police station on the site it looks as though it could come in very handy in the future … ‘ |
| 14 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 15 | Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets . |
| 16 | The court heard that a police officer on the scene said Ms Leyshon 's burns were so bad she looked like something from a horror movie . |
| 17 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |
| 18 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |
| 19 | He passed a police car on the bridge . |
| 20 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 21 | Labour is accusing Mrs Thatcher of dodging a discussion on Britain 's entry into the Euro Monetary System ; they say she 's chosen to avoid speaking in a Commons debate on the issue because she 's humiliated by the U-turn entry has meant for her . |
| 22 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 23 | In addition , students will prepare an honours dissertation on an appropriate subject under the supervision of staff in both Edinburgh and Japan . |
| 24 | On March 9 Iran called on the UN to impose an arms embargo on the two states . |