Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] ' [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the newspapers ' verdict on his conduct , that was never in doubt . |
| 2 | The new Guineas favourite is Tertian , a Newmarket winner last season , and now as low as 11–2 for the colts ' classic on May 2 . |
| 3 | All of these findings remained broadly similar irrespective of whether we analysed total warmth towards parties and party leaders , total ratings for the parties ' performance on issues , or total inclinations towards voting for all three leading parties ( Table 8.8 ) . |
| 4 | A dominant theme of the respondents ' comments on the market 's rating of R&D-intensive companies is the need to improve communication in order to enhance capital market efficiency . |
| 5 | Within the framework established by the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 for the head teacher to be in overall control of discipline in a school ( taking account of the governors ' policy on discipline ) , the law is content to allow teachers much discretion in the enforcement of school rules and application of sanctions . |
| 6 | Former presenter David Hamilton last night blamed Top Of The Pops ' demise on the ‘ bunch of nobodies ’ who host the show . |
| 7 | ( for further discussion of the Russians ' impact on the natives , see Chapter 4 . ) |
| 8 | Because of the falsificationists ' emphasis on the growth of science , their account of confirmation is significantly different from that of the inductivists . |
| 9 | According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene . |
| 10 | He was apprenticed to a bookseller , Humphrey Robinson , on 4 February 1635 , and became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 1 March 1643 and a liveryman in 1657 . |
| 11 | William became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 6 December 1591 . |
| 12 | He was made a liveryman of the Goldsmiths ' Company on 13 March 1740 . |
| 13 | He was a member of the archbishops ' committee on industrial problems ( 1917–18 ) , and in 1927 was the two archbishops ' choice to introduce the revised prayer-book measure in the House of Commons . |
| 14 | The EC has suspended a grant towards restocking the Pyrenees with eagles and vultures because of fears of the roads ' impact on the birds . |
| 15 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |
| 16 | The setting of the officers ' mess on board HMS Plymouth has been chosen by the actors to give an authentic feel to the show . |
| 17 | William Smith , a hard-pressed Sunday-school teacher , started the first company of the Boys ' Brigade on 4 October 1883 at the North Woodside Mission Hall of the wealthy College Free Church in the west end of Glasgow . |
| 18 | The parties have to disclose , within 14 weeks , the substance of the experts ' evidence on which they intend to rely , in the form of written reports to be agreed if possible . |
| 19 | Only when the hollow reverberations of the horses ' feet on the timber rolled along the rock fissures below did he start out of his trance to the realisation that a company of mounted men was riding into Parfois . |
| 20 | your estimates of the directors ' remuneration on an arms length basis for those years and your expectations for your remuneration package following the sale ; |
| 21 | Critics of the Conservatives ' policy on health point to the decline in the number of people having eye tests since the introduction of a fixed charge for the service . |
| 22 | By the end of the campaign , political interest , watching BBC-TV news , and a Labour identity made people somewhat more inclined to name defence as the Conservative Party 's main theme , however ; and those who had frequent discussions about politics developed a particularly clear perception of the Conservatives ' focus on defence issues ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 23 | The view is gaining ground that , if Ms Campbell does not win more than 40% of the delegates ' votes on the first ballot , Mr Charest will take the crown with the help of Mr Edwards 's backers . |
| 24 | Justifiable regrets , therefore , about the effect of the iconoclasts ' activities on the nation 's ecclesiastical heritage should not be allowed to blind us to the sincerity of their motives . |
| 25 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 26 | Steve Riley , one of the Founders ' representatives on the Board , asked him to stay . |
| 27 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 28 | According to the MMC ( 1980 : 95 ) , most of the drivers ' LDCs on Southern Region spent almost all day every Thursday scrutinizing proposed alterations for the coming week . |
| 29 | But as he inspected the size of the Tories ' losses on May 6th even the home secretary , Kenneth Clarke , usually a man to find a silver lining in the blackest cloud , admitted that the government was in ‘ a dreadful hole ’ . |
| 30 | However , Paletz and his colleagues remain critical of the journalists ' over-reliance on official sources of information about the riot ( i.e. the mayor and chief of police ) which helped to frame the event as the successful police suppression of a naked spree of lawlessness . |