Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] on [noun sg] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they assert that discounting will only lead to lower profits all round , a reduction in the number of titles on offer and an increase in market share by the larger chains at the expense of small booksellers . |
| 2 | The peoples of many different countries have settled here and grafted their own cultures on Malaysia — observe the variety of influences on architecture and the cornucopia of festivals celebrated . |
| 3 | Included here are a couple of skits on motherhood and a ‘ sound-piece ’ of nostalgic Glaswegian which played against a ‘ Forties black and white movie as three dancers with ice-cream trays made moving silhouettes . |
| 4 | In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers . |
| 5 | And er there 'll be a number of questions on stress and a number of questions on leadership . |
| 6 | That will be followed by a number of motions on health and the environment composite five motion two six four motion two six five , motion two six six motion two six eight and composite seven , and I 'll be asking Mark on behalf of the C E C to respond to that particular debate . |
| 7 | I have been giving a series of seminars on nutrition and the Asian family to Health Visitors . |
| 8 | Vietnam 's forests are still being depleted , despite bans on logging and the export of logs . |
| 9 | And there had been very hard times indeed when Daddy Ni was drunk and away for days on end and no one else in the family was earning : except the mother slaving in beatified drudgery . |