Example sentences of "on [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the captain went on deck to talk to the crew . |
| 2 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 3 | Perversely , in the way of Customs Officers , we insisted but gave him ten minutes to clear up , then climbed on board to see to the necessary documentation . |
| 4 | Furthermore , as mentioned above , Article 36 of the 1977 Geneva Protocol I imposed a duty on states to consider in the development or acquisition of new weapons whether their use would be illegal in some or all circumstances . |
| 5 | It would undoubtedly cost a lot on money to implement in the short run , as would some of the more conventional changes proposed by that Frenchman who claims to run the sport with an impartial hand . |
| 6 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 7 | I stood on tip-toes to look round the hall ; a paper-plane battle seemed to be taking place at one end . |
| 8 | The duo are on course to meet in the Tripleprint Feltham Chase after convincing wins on Saturday . |
| 9 | Victory by four points or more will put them on course to qualify for the European Championship finals in Germany in 1993 — England 's first appearance in the tournament since 1981 . |
| 10 | Now we have to beat Portugal and Italy at Ibrox before the end of the year to get ourselves back on course to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 11 | FRANCE remained on course to qualify for the World Cup finals when they beat Finland 2–0 in |
| 12 | In later life he expanded this social interest , even attempting to enter Parliament , standing as a candidate for East Worcestershire in 1874 , but his platform , based on proposals to deal with the health problems of prostitution near garrisons and naval establishments , attracted little support . |
| 13 | While we were compiling the figures , we also asked parents and teachers a range of questions on attitudes to change on the education system . |
| 14 | Blues manager Ian Porterfield was at Dean Court on Tuesday to spy on the £500,000-rated keeper in action against Brighton . |
| 15 | Well I could on Tuesday to get to the normal run . |
| 16 | In a statement on June 21 Ahmed Jabril 's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command described the US decision as " a historic opportunity for the PLO to conduct a stringent , critical review of its policies " and called on Arafat to return to the policy of armed struggle . |
| 17 | At an extraordinary congress on Nov. 16-17 the opposition Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) voted overwhelmingly in favour of amending provisions of the Basic Law ( constitution ) on asylum to refer to the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees , and in favour of allowing speedier consideration of asylum seekers ' applications and immediate deportation of those whose applications were rejected . |
| 18 | The US state department has called on Cuba to co-operate with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) to ensure safe construction and operation of a nuclear-power complex being built on the island near Cienfuegos . |
| 19 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
| 20 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 21 | This help includes £75 credit on bills to help with the drying out of homes . |
| 22 | I met many + tenants on similar estates who do the same thing — their heating amounts to " taking the nip out of the air " and putting on cardigans to go into the bathroom or kitchen . |
| 23 | The origin of the labrum from paired rudiments , interpreted as limb buds , is very uncommon ( occurring only in Locusta , Carausius and Rhodnius ) while the allegedly labral coelom sacs of Carausius have been shown on reinvestigation to belong to the preantennal segment ( Scholl , 1969 ) . |
| 24 | It does suggest that teachers corporately have a responsibility to assist in keeping alive the research tradition , but that there is also only a minimal obligation on individuals to participate in the research enterprise . |
| 25 | That pan with the chicken on needs to go in the dishwasher . |
| 26 | An advance party is due to leave Ipswich Airport on Monday to prepare for the installation of X-ray equipment at a hospital in the city of Cluj . |
| 27 | They said they needed to live on site to look after the calves they rear . |
| 28 | Less understandable was the willingness to allow the duty on diesel to rise by the rate of inflation rather than slash it . |
| 29 | Mr Braithwaite said work on the first stage of the new road was on schedule to start at the end of this year or early in 1993 . |
| 30 | The UN Security Council on April 4 unanimously condemned the " acts of violence at Rafah " and called on Israel to abide by the 1949 Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians in time of war . |