Example sentences of "[noun prp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 2 | BLACK 5 No 44871 ‘ Sovereign ’ which has been hauling the ‘ Northern Belle ’ for Grampian Railtours between Aberdeen and Elgin on Sundays , August 2 to September 6 was due to return with the SRPS railtour stock to Bo'ness on Monday , September 7 . |
| 3 | I will , I 'll set essays on Napoleon on erm on er on next time we meet on Monday . |
| 4 | Other paintings include ‘ Napoleon on horseback ’ by Horace Vernet ( est. $500,000–600,000 ; £257,700–309,300 ) and a view up the Champs Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe by Louis Marie de Schryver ( est. $150,000–200,000 ; £77,300–103,100 ) . |
| 5 | ( Gladstone was not the only public figure to join the chorus about women 's " nimble fingers " being particularly suited to the trade ; " and fifty years earlier , Napoleon on being shown round a printing office had growled that it was " women 's work " . ) |
| 6 | The dinner service , too , was bought when the Berkeleys first married and is still miraculously intact ; it is Wedgwood 's ‘ Napoleon Ivy ’ , reproduced from the ivy-leaf pattern used by Napoleon on St Helena . |
| 7 | His most famous commission was to supply all the furniture and furnishings for the house constructed for Napoleon on St Helena . |
| 8 | Like Napoleon on St Helena . |
| 9 | The right-wing daily Nowy Swiat on April 9 claimed that contingency plans to introduce martial law in Poland in the case of a threat to security had been elaborated by the President 's staff . |
| 10 | JEDBURGH On hilltop above the town , Castle Gaol , a nineteenth-century model prison in the shape of a turreted castle , has been converted into a museum of prison life and local social history . |
| 11 | Speeding home to Maidenhead on his Lambretta he brooded on the exciting and slightly scary world of West Coast direct action , radicalism , Beat and homosexuality . |
| 12 | In February 1935 , and unknown to the district , the Cambridge Board had proposed the formation of a joint committee with the LEA to explore and promote new developments in adult education in Northamptonshire on the assumption of increased financial aid from the LEA . |
| 13 | According to Freemantle , Leapor was born in Marston St. Lawrence in Northamptonshire on 26 February 1722 . |
| 14 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |
| 15 | ( In a long letter to Hester Thrale on 30 September , written from Ostig on Skye , he remarked with a different emphasis : ‘ Barley broath [ sic ] is a constant dish , and is made well in every house . |
| 16 | I have returned from the toughest trial that I have ever seen I he had already been wounded , for the third time , near Douaumont on February 25th ] — four days and four nights — ninety-six hours — the last two days soaked in icy mud — under terrible bombardment , without any shelter other than the narrowness of the trench , which even seemed to be too wide ; not a hole , not a dugout , nothing , nothing . |
| 17 | In bitter scrapping over Douaumont on May 24th , Thaw shot down a Fokker and then went back in the evening for more , but was cornered by three enemy planes . |
| 18 | Iris and her group were absent , it having been agreed before they set off that they would have lunch in St-Jean-du-Gard and telephone for the mini-bus from the station at Anduze on their return . |
| 19 | Nor did the agency consult a commission of independent scientists set up by Congress with the specific task of advising the EPA on such matters . |
| 20 | Senna drove a Chevrolet 1992 car in Phoenix on Sunday as a guest of fellow Brazilian and twice Formula One champion Emerson Fittipaldi . |
| 21 | The Formula One world champion test drives it for the first time in Phoenix on January 4 and will find his sleek , high-speed T93 series chassis also longer , bigger , heavier and cheaper than any previous IndyCar or championship-winning Canon Williams Renault FW14 . |
| 22 | Their four remaining games are against Phoenix on Sunday , Cincinnati , LA Raiders and Seattle — all with losing records . |
| 23 | All this and Pat Phoenix on the cover . ’ |
| 24 | This policy has allowed the preparation of the Phoenix on data processing and computer science , for instance , which was published without waiting for the twentieth edition . |
| 25 | They go to Phoenix on Saturday to play a team which has given them trouble in the past . |
| 26 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |
| 27 | A sloping garden need n't be an uphill struggle , as Pippa Greenwood discovered when she lent a hand to the Lloyds on camera |
| 28 | From Bueu we reversed our tracks to Vigo , before cycling thirty kilometres to Tui on the river Miňo which forms the border with Portugal . |
| 29 | Three Israeli soldiers were killed and six were wounded in a further bomb attack and gun battle near Aramta on Oct. 29 . |
| 30 | Israel had been shelling targets in the area following the killing of three Israeli soldiers near Aramta on Oct. 29 [ see p. 38550 ] . |