Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [vb -s] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch market , which like Denmark 's is export driven , only more so , and is heavily reliant on bacon exports to the UK , began a rise at the end of June , but last week prices dropped 7% and the fall looks like continuing . |
| 2 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 3 | It is then printed and on publication goes to the House of Lords either for information ( in which case the scrutiny reserve is lifted forthwith ) or for debate ( when the reserve remains until the debate takes place ) . |
| 4 | If the new-look UN is to move forward after the war , it must use its newly discovered teeth and confidence to slap some form of strict embargo on weapon supplies to the area to complement a long-standing Middle East peace . |
| 5 | Works on paper comes to the Armory |
| 6 | This is the time when your grasp on logic comes to the fore . |
| 7 | He strengthened American forces in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf ; stepped up military aid to Pakistan ; imposed an embargo on wheat exports to the Soviet Union ; and called for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games of 1980 . |
| 8 | Although the reduced percentage of aneuploid tumours can be interpreted as a local response to radiotherapy the missing effect on survival points to the fact that oesophageal cancer is often diagnosed at a locally advanced or even disseminated stage . |