Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Alf can now concentrate again on building for the future instead of defending the past . ’ |
| 2 | And then we 've gradually worked on building up the spelling . |
| 3 | On removal of the overall strain the matrix returns elastically to its former dimensions and deforms the fibril with it , first elastically and then plastically . |
| 4 | On removal of the mask … the face was at once seen … |
| 5 | Colonoscopy showed over 100 adenomatous polyps , but no carcinoma was found on removal of the colon and rectum . |
| 6 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 7 | His father , Robert , a US Marine Corps major , was on contract to the CIA for the notorious Vietnam-era Phoenix programme , in which US teams apprehended hundreds of thousands of Vietcong sympathisers for secret police interrogation . |
| 8 | Essentially the Conservative government said to family doctors , ‘ You want to remain private practitioners on contract with the NHS . |
| 9 | The sailing master was corpulent and red-faced , a civilian professional who held honorary Navy rank while he was employed on contract with the Fleet . |
| 10 | It had been reported on April 24 that Czechoslovakia would not renew the agreements under which some 46,000 foreign workers , including 37,000 Vietnamese , were employed on contract in the country . |
| 11 | A statement about cognitive difference based on assessment of the nature of literacy is as socially-embedded and open to challenge as are statements about cognitive differences based on race , ethnicity and class . |
| 12 | ‘ This has been a live issue for a long time , but it has been brought into sharp relief by the lack of clear guidance on assessment from the DoH , ’ he said . |
| 13 | In the late 1950s and early 1960s a survey of sources of radio waves from outer space was carried out at Cambridge by a group of astronomers led by Martin Ryle ( who had also worked with Bondi , Gold , and Hoyle on radar during the war ) . |
| 14 | You had them on radar for a while , ’ asked Duncan . |
| 15 | Eric Hobsbawm on irresponsibility in the Gulf |
| 16 | In his discourse on indigestion in the horse , he posed the question , why did ploughmen seldom suffer from indigestion , while members of the higher classes were prone to this ? |
| 17 | The girl died after choking on part of a toy inside one of the eggs . |
| 18 | There was a slight stubbornness on part of the management , simply because I think they were not , at that stage , inured to the shop steward 's effective way of dealing with things . |
| 19 | The officers on part of the panel have consulted schools very carefully about the last remnants of possible delegation which might arise and the recommendations are as presented to us in red , set out in section three . |
| 20 | There is also the safety aspect : if you have bad lighting or dangerously worn carpet on part of the staircase , waiting for a few years to tackle the problem because it is all part of the grand plan could prove very false economy indeed . |
| 21 | Fremantle 's motion was put to a vote and rejected and it was agreed to recommend that new fire-proof Foreign and Colonial Offices should be built on part of the park to conform with a general plan for rebuilding the area . |
| 22 | The written judgment said Daniel Angeli 's pictures were taken in ‘ surreptitious , indelicate and disloyal conditions ’ and encroached on part of the duchess and Bryan 's ‘ intimate private lives ’ . |
| 23 | Leaning back in a creaky old chair in a Padstow café , faced with yet another cream tea was the perfect way to round off a fabulous week 's backpacking on part of the South West Coast Path . |
| 24 | The trespassers gained entry to the greens at Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , and carved an effigy on part of the turf . |
| 25 | It emerged that a video camera had been trained on part of the premises of the night club and on an area where an incident preceding the arrival of the police and part of the incident said to be the violent disorder had taken place . |
| 26 | Go west on part of The Cleveland Way before making your way back to the village . |
| 27 | The news comes hard on the heels of an announcement by the Iceland Foods Group that it plans to build a distribution depot on part of the town 's former railworks site , creating around five hundred jobs . |
| 28 | The court heard that when the Deputy County Engineer inspected the dump site on 15 April , he found four bags of pelleted asbestos exposed on the site , pellets scattered on part of the site and for 70 yards along the access road and one pellet at the entrance gate to the site . |
| 29 | The CNAA was not aware that the new premises were on part of the site of what was once the Home and Colonial Infant School Society , which from 1836 had been one of the country 's first teacher training organizations , and had occupied 334–54 Gray 's Inn Road in 1839 . |
| 30 | The church of St Peter , Vauxhall , was built between 1863 and 1865 on part of the area formerly occupied by the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens ; its altar is on the site of the Neptune Fountain , and the late-eighteenth-century house which adjoins the church and is now the vicarage was originally the home of the manager of the gardens . |