Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theoretical basis for this rests on economic models which predict that there are net welfare gains available from removing these barriers . |
| 2 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 3 | There are a great number of ways of structuring and the relevance of each depends on particular sets of circumstances as well as to particular kinds of organisation . |
| 4 | Here we report that human mutant cell lines that lack mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) , and therefore do not have a functional respiratory chain , can still be induced to die by apoptosis , and that they can be protected from apoptosis by the overexpression of bcl-2 , suggesting that neither apoptosis nor the protective effect of bcl-2 depends on mitochondrial respiration . |
| 5 | Although Maastricht is mainly about monetary union ( with something about the powers of the commission and the European Parliament ) and the more distant prospect of joint working on foreign policy and security , it will also be taken as ( and perhaps mistaken for ) a sign of Europe 's ambitions for itself . |
| 6 | They swatted aside every challenge that came their way with a direct , forceful brand of sevens based on impressive strength and fitness . |
| 7 | Almost all the stock work was carried out by wives and up to 60% of all work on some farms was probably carried out by wives . |
| 8 | The most dramatic cloud of all occurred on 9 April 1984 somewhere between the Soviet Kuril islands and Sakhalin , a sensitive military area not far from where the Korean airliner was bombed from the sky . |
| 9 | The first major blow in the events of 1902 struck on 5 May , when the crater lake in the Etang Sec burst through the crater walls , and rushed down the valley of the Riviere Blanche . |
| 10 | Including the ( necessary ) Lemma 1.2.1 it appears that our proof of 1.2.2 depends on various properties of the = symbol together with several applications of A4 , A3 and D together with just one application of A2 . |
| 11 | A man of sincere , but unformed , liberal political convictions , he had been angered by the events of 5 October and had given medical treatment to some of those injured on that day . |
| 12 | Acker ( 1981 ) , in her review of articles published on the sociology of education between 1960 and 1979 , showed that , whereas 37 per cent of those reporting on empirical research had used all-male samples , only 5 per cent had used all-female samples . |
| 13 | Kenneth Orbinson , an Ulster Television cameraman , gave evidence at the trial of those arrested on 5 October : he said that he had been sprayed while filming from the window of a flat in Duke Street ; but his film was not admitted as evidence . |
| 14 | At the trial of those arrested on 5 October the police gave confused evidence about whether or not stones , as well as placards , had been thrown . |
| 15 | ‘ The highest recorded weight for a piglet at weaning is 36.7 kg for a boar , one of a litter of nine farrowed on 6 July 1962 … at Kettle Lane Farm , West Ashton , Trowbridge , Wilts . ’ |
| 16 | Because animals such as these feed on other things at other times of the year , they can not develop specialised nectar-collecting apparatus , for that would make feeding on other substances difficult if not impossible . |
| 17 | Now there are calls for tough testing , like those enforced on new drugs . |
| 18 | Major research groupings : ( 1 ) GIS and RS including spatial searching on large databases , software development , applied research and parallel processing , ( 2 ) Geomorphology and Soils , including research on ice sheets , tectonics and geomorphology and soil-vegetation relationships in the humid tropics , ( 3 ) Geography of Social and Economic Change , including problems of restructuring and the dynamics of change in both the developed and the developing world . |
| 19 | In the matter of social relations , the first three types are relatively continuous with those based on inherent resources , while the fourth and fifth types introduce problems of relationship of quite new kinds . |
| 20 | Criticisms like this of TNCs , based on their foreignness , are often confused with those based on transnational practices , which domestic firms may share . |
| 21 | Although twice as high a proportion of tropical plants contain potentially toxic alkaloids compared with extra-tropical ones and , although these are often concentrated in the young tissues of plants , insects specializing on such tissues may have rather unsophisticated problems compared with those feeding on mature leaves , where so much ‘ secondary chemistry ’ is manifest . |
| 22 | The plans of the groups enable them to be identified with those shown on large-scale Ordnance Survey maps , except for those sites subsequently ploughed out , which often survived as ring-ditches . |
| 23 | IBM now has 13 autonomous business units , with nine focused on specific product lines , and it is widely suggested that some of these need heavyweight industry veterans to run them effectively . |
| 24 | Mr Waterfield likens a game of croquet to a game of snooker and personally believes that the outdoor game preceded the indoor , with both based on similar objectives . |
| 25 | An exchange of visits has in fact already been initiated between those working on rural development in the Western Isles and in southern Italy . |
| 26 | It is useful to return to the earlier typology of hazards ( Fig. 10.1 ) and to stress the links that might be made between those working on natural hazards and those working in the socio-economic domains . |
| 27 | The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income . |
| 28 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 29 | A government report in 1963 concluded on this issue : ‘ A national policy of expansion would improve the regional picture ; and , in turn , a successful regional development programme would make it easier to achieve a national growth programme . ’ |
| 30 | Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development . |