Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon there were to be further strains on the Anglo-Turkish relationship in Egypt . |
| 2 | Knighted in 1946 , he continued to live in Oxford , to study in a room provided by his old college , and to write — in particular his volume on the Thirteenth Century in the Oxford History of England . |
| 3 | It was on the teetotal platform in September 1833 that ‘ Dicky ’ , as temperance reformers affectionately called him , won his modest place in British history . |
| 4 | During all this growth dodder obtains its nourishment from the host through numerous absorptive organs called haustoria which develop all along the coiled regions of the vine on the inner surface in contact with the host . |
| 5 | Rhetorically , the central organising theme of the debates on the inner city in Britain over the last three years has been the problem of exporting the successes of the rest of the nation to this extraordinary conceptual space . |
| 6 | Jane Kennedy ( Labour ) pressed him on the recent article in the Independent , which stated that ministers had privately said they intended to issue new guidelines to family doctors to tighten up the eligibility criteria for the benefit . |
| 7 | But the success of these schemes is heavily dependent on the recent improvement in the rate of return of private investment , and , moreover , the coverage provided by private schemes is incomplete . |
| 8 | Milton meanwhile got the phrase right in his sonnet ‘ On the Late Massacre in Piedmont ’ : |
| 9 | G. Now all the ice sheets have melted but snow is common on the higher land in winter . |
| 10 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 11 | This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended . |
| 12 | Ross 's voice broke through her unhappy thoughts , his dark eyebrows raised as he saw the half-empty wine bottle on the low table in front of her . |
| 13 | He has been challenged many times on the weak link in his case , which is that since American firms are free to relocate to Mexico , a trade agreement is the best way to make sure that American interests are protected . |
| 14 | This echoed the ambivalence of the original 1920 Lenin and Roy theses on the colonial question in general , formulated as an interim measure in what Lenin saw as an inconclusive debate at the Second Congress . |
| 15 | In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed . |
| 16 | As it was the revolt of the Czech Legion on the Trans-Siberian Railway in May 1918 which in a sense signalled the start of the Civil War , so was it the taking of Vladivostok by the Red Army in 1922 , the withdrawal of American and Japanese interventionist forces from the Siberian mainland , and the incorporation of the short-lived far Eastern Republic into the Soviet Union which finally marked its end . |
| 17 | In the debate on the annual budget in June 1962 the Minister of Education , who was then responsible for broadcasting matters , gave a review of the TBC 's achievements during the previous year . |
| 18 | E.g. : A specific phoneme may have several different variants depending on the phonetic environment in which it occurs . |
| 19 | The sonar watch on the ticking device in the crashed bomber was now continuous . |
| 20 | This little-known company director , chairman of Walsham brothers , may be on the highest salary in Britain : £8 million , according to Labour Research . |
| 21 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
| 22 | Perhaps because after an almost fatal spasm , Coleridge thought his marriage was now bearable — although on this eight-day storming and often precipitous walk around the mountains and lakes he was to write a passionate letter to the woman he desired as his mistress while perched on the highest mountain in England . |
| 23 | Three pitches later , nine Czechs , some Scots and a couple of English pseudo-Scots posed for summit pictures below the Czech flag on the highest tower in Adrspach . |
| 24 | Data will also be collected on the changing context in which the complementary medical professions are developing , especially orthodox medical attitudes to complementary medicine and relevant government policy , both at national government and at EEC level . |
| 25 | There is to be a new security system , based on the Arab world in one form or another . |
| 26 | On the socio-economic situation in each country , the two sides noted that it was " difficult for socialism as a new social structure to avoid complexities and contradictions in its development " . |
| 27 | Two Context Studies have been prepared on the socio-economic background in the regions involved , the first concentrating on agricultural structures and the second on the development of non-agricultural labour markets in rural areas . |
| 28 | The first part of the discussion concentrated on the present situation in the Royal Victoria Hospital ( RVH ) . |
| 29 | Which would be slightly down on er the number that we got in last year , erm , the next factor , erm , is not as yet a fact but is almost a certainty , that , er , all , we will not succeed on the present basis in persuading D O E that we should have any increase in t to reflect er er an increase in work , and next year we 're anticipating getting in effect a stand still budget . |
| 30 | Gray and Wilcock ( 1981 ) trace the attitude back to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law in 1909 , but no doubt it is much older than this . |