Example sentences of "on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our survey showed that there were strong partisan influences on switches in economic perceptions over the winter of 1986–7 ( see Miller et al . , |
| 2 | One involved a man called Raymond Fryer , whose name was shown up by tests on notes of an interview between a detective and Jones . |
| 3 | Repetition can be visual ; and we advocate this technique in the section on Notes of notes in chapter 4 , and the section on Swot cards in chapter 7 . |
| 4 | The painters downstairs , skylarking on the fringe of the main action , celebrate ( though they would be surprised to hear it ) the living life which was , I said , merely imposed on Notes from Underground , but which now surrounds both crime and punishment and makes the whole novel responsive like a touched spider 's web . |
| 5 | The jungle cat , which weighs up to 20 lb ( 9 kg ) , preys largely on birds including pheasants and jungle fowl and lives in the drier and more open forest . |
| 6 | I was reading and no doubt seeing myself as Chopin , and I had my new book on birds beside me . |
| 7 | Gould accepted the commission for illustrating the volume on birds for Darwin 's Zoology but left before he saw it completed . |
| 8 | In the past , the Falkland sheep farmers looked on birds of prey as their enemies , but more enlightened attitudes are nowadays evident — at least in areas frequented by the few tourists visiting the islands . |
| 9 | Eagle-spotting was becoming a national pastime and experts on birds of prey suddenly found themselves being quoted in every paper or interviewed on radio and television . |
| 10 | Just now during John 's absence I find amusement and employment in drawing some of the plants of the colony , which will help to render the work on Birds of Australia more interesting . |
| 11 | On Birds of a Feather , and Dorian said something to Sharon , and er , then she said well , and she just went hahaha. from er jug , but I part |
| 12 | Some ‘ improvements ’ to the grazing have meant the draining of small marshes and this , of course , can have a serious effect on birds like snipe and redshank . |
| 13 | Mechanisation itself has , apart from the habitat changes it has induced , had little direct effect on birds in Sussex . |
| 14 | The single most distinctive feature of the English sentencing system is the breadth of discretion that is conferred on sentencers at all levels within the system . |
| 15 | This research project focuses on attempts by local authorities to intervene in instances of rural land use competition , and to evaluate how effective their involvement has been . |
| 16 | The first exploration of this theme was made by Kummer ( 1968 ) in research on hamadryas in Ethiopia . |
| 17 | The dancing stopped , and while those who 'd travelled to the all-dayer on coaches from Brighton , Hereford , Nottingham , Northampton , Leeds and Sheffield looked bemused at the sound of the King , the West Midlands regulars looked straight to Dermot Ryan , one of the three brothers behind promotions company Chuff Chuff . |
| 18 | Perhaps the greatest accolade which could receive for his efforts came in June 1966 when Her Majesty the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visited the St Cuthberts Carriage Museum , and inspected restoration work on the collection taking place alongside work on coaches from the Royal Mews . |
| 19 | There are also plans to take pupils on outings to Wimbledon and Ascot , and there will be nights at the opera . |
| 20 | Under this principle , the Regulation gives the Commission sole competence to make decisions on mergers within the scope of the Regulation , whether or not the merger is adjudged to be compatible with the Common Market . |
| 21 | The Carlton bid comes just a week after the Government announced plans to relax rules on mergers within the ITV network . |
| 22 | Last year Halton and Warrington Midweek Conservation Volunteers completed 1,022 work days on projects including dry stone walling , hedge planting and pond digging . |
| 23 | As co-op members they also retain the right to work on projects of their own , rejecting the ‘ professional ’ distinction between ‘ workers ’ and ‘ clients ’ that funding agencies try to impose . |
| 24 | ACE provides temporary employment of up to one year 's duration for long-term unemployed adults on projects of community benefit . |
| 25 | The F&CI utilises the ‘ Community Programme ’ of the Manpower Services Commission ( which provides jobs for long-term unemployed people on projects of benefit to the community ) for rural development . |
| 26 | Over the past five years , the Department of Health has spent £13m on projects at the Royal hospitals complex . |
| 27 | The big step is then getting the rest of the Council to take it on board , that 's the big step , you know , leisure , the neighbourhood office 's , I mean the neighbourhood office 's are quite good , I mean they 've got a , they 've got a budget , a development budget , and like in Katherines and Sumners I know that a large proportion of the development budget there went on projects for young people , you know , so there are using there money . |
| 28 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 29 | Q. You work on projects for major companies . |
| 30 | The Science and Technology Directorate ‘ will badger governments into giving more money to [ educational ] institutions … it is futile for governments to spend money to increase industry 's competitiveness ’ it is better spent on projects in educational institutions . |