Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The campaign to open membership of the British Association of Social Workers to non-qualified staff is being stepped up in preparation for a renewed debate on the issue at the association 's annual general meeting in Birmingham . |
| 2 | President Francesco Cossiga announced the dissolution of Parliament on Feb. 2 , in preparation for a general election on April 5-6 , approximately two months before it was constitutionally necessary [ for June 1987 general election see pp. 35586-88 ] . |
| 3 | The opposition parties [ see below ] had presented minimum demands for electoral reform , in preparation for the forthcoming referendum on constitutional changes and ensuing legislative elections . |
| 4 | If you 're complete beginners , active , familiar with camping or caravanning conditions , and two or you pay for our ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course in Nidri , then we know you 'll be safe to skipper your own yacht for the second week on flotilla . |
| 5 | The research would determine likely sales levels , and also settle the division between a left-wing Mail on Sunday , with projected circulation of 400,000 , and a ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ selling 250,000 . |
| 6 | Youth workers from all over North Yorkshire will meet today at the Galtres Centre in Easingwold for a special conference on smoking . |
| 7 | The NSWRU 's decision seems certain to lead to the Australian Rugby Football Union 's support of New Zealand Rugby Football Union 's second application to the International Rugby Football Board for a new interpretation on reinstatement and admissions to the game . |
| 8 | Ian Crofton , currently editorial director of Guinness Reference , joins the Pan Macmillan board as an associate director on 29th March in the new position of publishing director for reference books . |
| 9 | For example , there is a case for a further restriction on the sale of knives and for licensing shops . |
| 10 | The costings episode once again highlights the case for an independent commission on council reform . |
| 11 | Profits on these sales were , however , to a large extent offset by provision for the expected loss on disposal of the group 's remaining minerals interest , Olympic Dam in Australia , and on the closure and disposal of certain retail sites in the United States . |
| 12 | Playing down Russia 's reparations demands , he offered to create a centralised , united Germany as an independent force on the world stage . |
| 13 | In the private sector , the imperative need to be profitable acts as an external discipline on the activities of enterprises . |
| 14 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 15 | The launch of a new tram book in 1978 is the excuse for a special run on 59 ( opposite ) . |
| 16 | Railway : At the weekend you may actually become a train driver for a short distance on the steam railway ! |
| 17 | Now next in Shearer 's sights are Premier League leaders Norwich who visit Ewood Park for an all-ticket clash on Saturday . |
| 18 | I made my way home each night with at least some notion of hope and plans for a new assault on Wilde . |
| 19 | The prospects for a ceasefire agreement between the government and the rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) were significantly improved by plans for a face-to-face meeting on Aug. 4 in Rome between President Joaquim Chissano and the Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama . |
| 20 | In the turmoil of the two years after the Japanese surrender , catastrophic inflation at triple digit rates coupled with an explosion of labour and political activity culminated in mass protest and plans for a general strike on 1 February 1947 . |
| 21 | If he had had any doubts about this , the Queen 's attitude must have set his mind at rest : she had invested , on a commercial basis , in Hawkins 's slave-trading and , less openly , she invested in Drake 's plans for a non-governmental attack on Spain . |
| 22 | In the weeks before the meeting , the Daily Worker published plans for a five-column march on Olympia and even a map to show its readers how to get there . |
| 23 | Their optimism is likely to be heightened by the news that the Department of the Environment has also rejected plans for a retail development on Green Belt land near Orpington and has awarded costs of £250,000 against the developers Prudential Assurance . |
| 24 | The Polish government has also shelved plans for a nuclear plant on the River Warta , near Poznan , following public protest |
| 25 | Plans to privatise the railways foundered in acrimony beween Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind and Major ; plans for a white paper on health were abandoned for fear of boosting Labour 's agenda . |
| 26 | Middlesbrough Council is distributing 2,000 leaflets telling the ‘ real facts ’ about its plans for the floodlit development on Clairville Common . |
| 27 | Plans for an historic ban on mining in the Antarctic were shattered by the US refusing to sign the treaty at the last moment . |
| 28 | It was followed , after the ammunition pouches of the defenders had been emptied , by total slaughter as the last line on the summit of an open hill was breached . |
| 29 | But his plea for a four-month stay on the sewage ban while this search was completed was dismissed by David Mazzone , the federal judge overseeing the clean-up project , and rejected by a federal appeals court . |
| 30 | I enclose a cheque for £34 as payment for the outstanding balance on my last instalment of the Community Charge . |