Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID my National Service with a Guards regiment on the East German border in 1948 — but there was still some fraternisation with the Russians , usually in the bar at some remote border village . |
| 2 | Imports fell by 8 per cent ; the trade surplus reached US$976 million , with a balance-of-payments surplus on the current account of $389 million . |
| 3 | I ask him about his days as a commodities broker on Wall Street — Koons spent his days as a struggling artist working on Wall Street rather than starving in a garret — and he directed his answer to Ilona , because the anecdote shows the charming , apple-pie side of his nature . |
| 4 | The court will allocate a file number to the case and endorse a date for a hearing or a directions appointment on the copies for service . |
| 5 | He also commented that Spain 's integration into Europe was unthinkable until the country had a telecommunications network on a par with the networks existing in the rest of the European Community countries . |
| 6 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 7 | Or the taut handling of a sports saloon on winding country lanes … |
| 8 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 9 | On Wednesday evening there was a sports programme on the BBC World Service , and Saturday was the day of the football results . |
| 10 | Mrs Faber , 27 , was formerly a sports presenter on Super Channel and the BBC 's Ski Sunday . |
| 11 | Less than 30 minutes before the blasts , a Samaritans office on Merseyside received a coded message from a man with an Irish accent . |
| 12 | Yes , we 're planning a pokes section on the Megatape . |
| 13 | An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board . |
| 14 | After Hadrian 's Wall was built , they would have helped to control traffic on Dere Street passing through the Portgate , a customs post on the Wall similar to that at Knag Burn near Housesteads . |
| 15 | There were times in the past when projects for Scottish independence seemed to involve things like passport checks and a customs post on the border between Berwick and the Solway Firth . |
| 16 | On May 18 a Byelorussian policeman was shot dead by Lithuanian personnel at a customs post on the Byelorussia-Lithuania border . |
| 17 | The committee is planning a number of events for early in the new year , including a Skittles Night on Saturday 20 February in the Corstorphine Inn . |
| 18 | Jim there 's a Despatches programme on Channel Four next week where some of the work that we 've done on B S E is fea featured and my colleague 's been through it as well . |
| 19 | Six goals … two penalties … a sending off … a carrying off … a touchline bust-up … the Manor Ground was like a fireworks factory on saturday as Denis Smith kicked off his reign as manager of Oxford United |
| 20 | The general rule is that no one may use a goods vehicle on a road for the carriage of goods for hire or reward , or for or in connexion with any trade or business carried on by him , except under an operator 's licence ( commonly known as an O licence ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The first will be a publications clinic on 1 September , at a venue to be decided . |
| 22 | Comparisons are with restated figures to reflect the acquisition of Advanced Telecommunications Corp on a pooling-of-interests basis on December 1992 . |
| 23 | ‘ I am very pleased at the progress made and hope the concept of a watersports centre on the Lagan becomes a reality in the near future , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The gang expected to net £5,000 as they ambushed a wages clerk on her drive back from the bank . |
| 25 | Those accused , besides Ransome Kuti and the two CD activists arrested with him on May 18 [ see p. 38900 ] , were the prominent human rights lawyer Gani Fawehinmi , arrested at his Lagos home on May 29 , and the president of the banned National Association of Nigerian Students ( NANS ) , Olusegun Mayegun , who was arrested with a NANS colleague on June 11 at Lagos University . |
| 26 | Then she , too , was driven at very high speed to a police station on mainland Orkney for interrogation . |
| 27 | I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe they should build a police station on the site it looks as though it could come in very handy in the future … ‘ |
| 29 | The problem in West Yorkshire is that it costs more there to put a police man on the beat , and the authority spends more per head of the population . |
| 30 | Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets . |