Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , it 's possible for some explosive activity to take place in the summit crater , but for most of the lava to be erupted quietly from a vent or fissure on the flanks of the volcano . |
| 2 | But the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , which outlaws direct or indirect discrimination and victimisation against men or women on the grounds of sex or marital status , has a much broader scope . |
| 3 | The essence of the idea of ‘ measurement focus ’ is , to put it straightforwardly , that by adopting the ‘ flow of financial resources ’ a governmental organization can adopt ‘ accrual accounting ’ in its operating statement ( that is , it can ‘ recognize the effects of transactions or events on the resources of an entity when they take place , regardless of when cash is received or paid ’ ) but does not have to charge depreciation . |
| 4 | Lithified materials may require little more than decision on the orientations of thin sections needed for later examination under the optical microscope , but special slide preparation and cementing media may be required , particularly if soluble minerals are thought to be present ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 5 | So while it is true to say that discrimination on the grounds of age is not unlawful , that is not the complete picture . |
| 6 | It is also worth bearing in mind that data on the benefits of conventional antihypertensive therapy have been derived to a large extent from subjects less than 65 years of age ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | She had heard of storms great enough to flood some of the booths near to the shore , but never one that had thrown more than spray on the walls of the longhouses . |
| 8 | Many people believe that abortion on the grounds of mental handicap is particularly unjust . |
| 9 | The astrophysics of such events is complicated , so that it is not possible to give more than limits on the parameters of the gravitational radiation to be expected . |
| 10 | Brennan adapted the capital asset pricing model to try to gauge the effects of dividends and taxes on the returns to shareholders : where . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd have had so much shit over several hundred assorted carcases with immigration and quarantine on the borders in Europe , ’ Jourgensen 's partner Paul Barker explains . |
| 12 | Many people who were not needed were leaving Liverpool each evening to sleep in the woods at Huyton or at various halls and cinemas on the outskirts of the city , but Julia was too frail to be moved . |
| 13 | Interaction , in the abstract sense intended here , can be understood as the sustained production of chains of mutually-dependent acts , constructed by two or more agents each monitoring and building on the actions of the other ( in this sense the mathematical theory of games studies one kind of interaction ; see Luce & Raiffa , 1957 ) . |
| 14 | For over thirty years , along with my fellow teachers , I have been going to educational conferences , and training sessions , and workshops , to hear countless leaders in education talk , as you do , about the dignity of the child , and the importance of individual differences , and of fostering positive self-concepts , and building on the interests of the child , and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear . |
| 15 | In fact , it has been shown by Nutku ( 1981 ) that the discontinuities in the derivatives of f and g on the boundaries of region IV indicate the presence of an infinite discontinuity in the Ricci tensor on these hypersurfaces . |
| 16 | The Ladies of Scotland 's cookies , followed by meat loaf , succeeded by the Lady Queen Bees ' angel cake buried under cheese dips and rye on the rocks at the party , would daunt the strongest stomach . |
| 17 | Draw features and patterns on the eggs with a pencil before you boil and dye them . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on the implications of amendment to political risk provision in the Export and Guarantees Bill . |
| 19 | Parents can be greatly helped if they have received early information and guidance on the needs of children with no sight or defective vision , and in addition the chance to see for themselves educational provision as well as receiving information about potential placements . |
| 20 | For the next thirty-five years he published a spate of pamphlets and books on the subjects about which he felt strongly and the authors whom he admired deeply or disagreed with emphatically . |
| 21 | Morling said the statement by the Tobacco Institute was likely to mislead smokers and nonsmokers on the effects of smoking . |
| 22 | En route , we passed a woodman baking potatoes and chestnuts on the ashes of a fire , as Jean-Claude had done , and a huge swarm of angry , iridescent flies hovering over a dead fox , as he had been accustomed to finding close at hand . |
| 23 | It is a fundamentalism which imposes an edifice of avarice , deception and patriotism on the claims of Jesus Christ . |
| 24 | It was spread as layers of mud and sand on the beds of these seas . |
| 25 | One of the direct results of this westwards orientation ( or , more precisely , ‘ occidentation ’ ) has been the relative neglect by historians of the huge , seemingly limitless tracts of territory stretching eastwards beyond the Urals towards the Pacific coast , and encompassing on its north-south axis the frozen wastes of the Polar North and the deserts and mountains on the edges of Central Asia , Mongolia and China . |
| 26 | The working party will investigate the alternative practices of culling and management on the lands in Exmoor and the Quantock Hills in the West Country . |
| 27 | The best way of dealing with it , perhaps , is to draw parents into a prevailing set of values about intelligence and humanity on the grounds of an ‘ equal partnership , that is spurious and reinforces the attitudes underlying segregation . |
| 28 | Officers have been combing scrubland and bracken on the outskirts of Bicester where the revolver was found , looking for other weapons , baseball bats used in the attack . |
| 29 | It is a view I believe which is held by everyone connected with policing at local level and additionally , the continuation of the tripartite system with its essential checks and balances on the activities of the three parties involved and My Lords that is the real importance and value of the tripartite system that depends on the local authorities being seen to be in the driving seat . |
| 30 | 5.5.2 the Tenant shall ( if in occupation ) immediately vacate the Premises and remove from the Premises all ( if any ) building and other materials and equipment on the Premises in connection with the Tenant 's Works |