Example sentences of "the [noun sg] on [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would my right honourable friend confirm that the former director of G C H Q , Sir Brian Tovey , stated that during the imposition of martial law in Warsaw and during the Soviet anva invasion of Afghanistan some ten thousand hours of cover were lost at G C H Q. And will he not confirm that is a perfectly good reason for the ban on external er interference by trade unions in the activities of G C H Q and will he also assure the house that the existing trade assoc the staff association works perfectly well and there is no reason whatever for an external trade union to interfere in G C H Q's affairs . |
| 2 | I fucking watched the programme on that Who Who 's the Greatest ? |
| 3 | It puts support for them at 13 per cent ( up five points on last month ) , with Labour in the lead on 41 per cent ( down three ) , SNP on 24 per cent ( down two ) and Conservatives on 21 per cent ( down one ) . |
| 4 | There 's one at the back on that erm |
| 5 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 6 | A second concentration was represented by the 40 SMLAs occupying the East and West Midlands , Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire : another 33 per cent of the population of the country on 14 per cent of the land area . |