Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fellows of Magdalen College , Oxford , refused James 's attempt to foist a Catholic President on them in March 1687 ( electing one of their own fellows instead , whom James immediately deposed ) , and when they subsequently refused to accept James 's nomination of Samuel Parker , Bishop of Oxford , the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes was used to deprive twenty-five of them of their fellowships . |
| 2 | Kanemaru reportedly said , however , that he had first learned of the involvement of Inagawa-kai on Dec. 23 , 1987 , whereas Watanabe had already stated that Kanemaru had called on him in September 1987 to ask Ishii to suppress the Nihon Kiminto campaign . |
| 3 | The Supreme Court in Vienna on March 2 , 1989 , rejected an appeal by the former Vice-Chancellor and general manager of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein , Hannes Androsch , against the fine imposed on him in March 1988 for perjury in giving false testimony to a corruption investigation [ see p. 35792 ] . |
| 4 | The lordship had been settled on him in Edward IV 's final parliament , together with other manors of the duchy of Exeter , as part of a distribution of the duchy lands among the queen 's family . |
| 5 | The lordship had been settled on him in Edward IV 's final parliament , together with other manors of the duchy of Exeter , as part of a distribution of the duchy lands among the queen 's family . |
| 6 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 7 | They were then released on bail and kept on it until May 1978 , a period of over four years ( i.e. a total of five-and-a-half years from the date of the original arrests ) . |