Example sentences of "in [num] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new service was introduced in 1635 on the roads between London and Edinburgh , Plymouth , and Chester and Holyhead ( for Ireland ) , and on by-roads off these major routes . |
| 2 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 3 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 4 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 5 | Several of them had already been contained in a draft proposal in 1957 on the principles to determine Great Power conduct on questions of peace and security in the Near and Middle East . |
| 6 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 7 | The gate facing you is the one through which the troops from Passau invaded Prague in 1611 on the orders of Matthias . |
| 8 | In Zimbabwe 's case , England openly opposed their long-awaited elevation to Test status in 1992 on the grounds it would devalue the international game . |
| 9 | This is Lady 's Pillar , erected in 1664 on the instructions of Lady Anne Clifford as a memorial to a friend , Sir Hugh Morville , after whom the fell is named . |
| 10 | Begun in 1446 by Henry VI as a private place of worship for just 70 scholars it took no less than 69 years to build , being completed in 1515 on the instructions of Henry VII but only after his death . |
| 11 | This was a major departure for NATO , which had been based since its foundation in 1949 on the principles of taking joint action in defence of member states only and of restricting operations to a clearly designated area covering the member states ' territories . |
| 12 | Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes . |
| 13 | During 1866 Tokugawa ( Hitotsubashi ) Keiki , whose claims to the office of shogun had been rejected in 1858 on the grounds of precedent , succeeded to the headship of the Tokugawa family and subsequently to the title of shogun . |
| 14 | As early as 1845 he surveyed a line for a railway crossing the Grampian mountains between Perth and Inverness , but the Bill presented to Parliament , requesting permission , was defeated in 1846 on the grounds of impracticality . |
| 15 | Built in 1860 on the banks of the timeless River Arno , this is a pleasant , stylish property situated behind the church of Santa Croce . |
| 16 | It originates from the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation ( ICFC ) and Finance for Commerce and Industry ( FCI ) set up in 1945 on the findings of the MacMillan Committee that a gap existed in the provision of long term capital funds to small businesses . |
| 17 | Pope Paul IV , for instance , was so shocked by what he saw that he ordered the work to be obliterated in 1555 on the grounds of obscenity . |
| 18 | For instance , Tomsk , founded in 1604 on the orders of Tsar Boris Godunov , around 60 kilometres from the confluence of the Ob and Tom rivers , ‘ served as a defensive post for protection against attacks by the local population and for subjecting them to the payment of yasak ’ . |
| 19 | Community Forests , funded by the Forestry and Countryside Commissions , were set up in 1990 on the outskirts of major cities . |
| 20 | A proposal to build more barracks was rejected by Parliament in 1739 on the grounds that ‘ the people of this kingdom have been taught to associate the idea of barracks and slavery ’ . |