Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commodities produced in the new international division of labour are , above all , to be exported and imported either by trade between merchants on the world market or by transfer ( as semi-finished parts of finished articles ) from one branch of a multinational corporation to another branch . |
| 2 | The Atlantic Agreement called " upon the Seamen of all the world for service … to demonstrate practical appreciation of freedom won " , and the American Shipping Act of 1915 had established for seamen on foreign ships a " a right to quit " while in US ports from March 1916 . |
| 3 | Martikainen and Puttonen ( 1992 ) examined the correlations between returns on the stock markets of the UK , USA and the world ( the FT Actuaries World index ) , and returns on the Finnish FOX index and FOX index futures . |
| 4 | Considering we 're paying for personnel on top of it and , and all the other things like telephones and accommodation . |
| 5 | The study also draws on existing published data about current practices and predictions about where growth in jobs is most likely to take place , as a basis for projections on likely trade union growth . |
| 6 | He 's a good sort and the relaxed atmosphere within his race transporter makes it a favoured social gathering point for Germans on the GP circuit . |
| 7 | A third consequence of Gandhi 's insistence on the imperfect nature of particular forms of religions is his plea for the spirit of toleration between religions on the grounds that it increases spiritual insight and gives a better understanding of one 's own faith . |
| 8 | Accepting this state of affairs many women are actually grateful to ‘ understanding ’ employers who are ‘ flexible ’ about hours on site , or who provide them with homework , to be done simultaneously with looking after the children . |
| 9 | Threaded through the film are suggestions for beginners on calculating plane loads and river gradients an assessing requirements for clothing , camping and cooking . |
| 10 | There are two new classes being run in the summer term : To prepare for those summer holidays , there is an Italian for beginners on Monday mornings and a five week course on Tuesday evenings set aside for couples and individuals who would like to explore ‘ communication within the family ’ with Jo Jordan , an experienced counselling therapist . |
| 11 | Advice through notes on past events available and Pat Palmer , who teachers at this school is willing to liaise if required . |
| 12 | Modest and Sundaresan ( 1983 ) have shown that the no-arbitrage condition for futures on a geometric index is different from that for an arithmetic index . |
| 13 | The term y must be positive , and so the no-arbitrage price for futures on a geometric index is lower than for the corresponding arithmetic index . |
| 14 | While there is an exact no-arbitrage price for futures on geometric indices , it requires the calculation of y , and this may be difficult and may cause the arbitrage to be risky . |
| 15 | The importance of apathy and fatalism behind high fertility has been mentioned earlier , but in the absence of specific research , any connection between attitudes on council estates and fertility must remain speculative . |
| 16 | And , certainly , it was difficult to find any substantial difference in approach between authorities on the basis of party political control . |
| 17 | The grant was to be distributed between authorities on the basis of a set of detailed standard expenditure figures , set by central government for each service after discussion with local authorities on the consultative council . |
| 18 | Education about dangers on the roads is top of the agenda at the new TEARS Traffic Education and Road Safety centre in Malvern . |
| 19 | I would have thought that it is the DoT 's responsibility to make some provision for cyclists on main routes like this . |
| 20 | ‘ It makes no sense to regard ministers as any longer accountable to their national parliaments for policies on which they have been outvoted in the Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | Victors ' trophy until it was given to Brazil for keeps on their third win in 1970 . |
| 22 | The most recent , from the Institute of Directors , firmly opposed ’ any system of levy or tax that discriminates between employers on the basis of assumptions about what a firm spends on training ’ . |
| 23 | While thirteen out of twenty middle-class women ( sixty-five per cent ) ‘ mind ’ describing themselves as housewives on a form , only eight out of twenty working-class women ( forty per cent ) state this objection . |
| 24 | Unix International is also preparing to look beyond Unix System Laboratories in its quest for technologies on top of and around the core Unix System V Release 4 ( SVR4 ) operating system , say sources close to the organisation . |
| 25 | The union works for musicians on two levels : supporting the individual member , and providing a protective umbrella for all musicians , whether or not they are MU members . |
| 26 | Bags — Ideal for musicians on the move , Yamaha 's new instrument bags are designed to protect a number of Yamaha hitech instruments . |
| 27 | Jones played on , helping back row partner Adrian Varney grab two tries , before going to hospital for x-rays on his jaw . |
| 28 | Although these are hardly the dominant features of international law at present , on this paradigm international law could control force by having courts to make decisions about conflicts of interest between states on the basis of authoritative rules and impartial and effective procedures for the accurate and fair application of these rules to specific circumstances . |
| 29 | In the long term the papacy had shown itself a " Western " power to be reckoned with in diplomatic and monarchical terms — a power , what is more , that claimed to be able to decide between states on their moral actions , ratione peccati . |
| 30 | This Convention attempts to harmonise data protection legislation among the signatory states to remove the need for restrictions on the free flow of data between states on the grounds that personal data is not protected . |