Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [noun] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 2 | The will point to his agreement , however reluctantly , to the introduction of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup last year — the ITF 's official end of the season competition — which offered $2m to the winner and $6m overall , more than double the amount on offer at the ATP Championships and which even some of the players , including Boris Becker and John McEnroe , described as exorbitant . |
| 3 | My constituent felt strongly that neither the amount on offer from the student loans scheme nor the money available from the postgraduate access fund would be enough to compensate for the loss of housing benefit to her undergraduate daughter or to her elder daughter , who was on the postgraduate music course . |
| 4 | Both dramatic playing and performance use dramatic metaphors , abstractions which immediately qualify the kind , intensity and degree of emotional response — one can reasonably assume that neither the actor on stage nor the child in the classroom is actually going to experience murderous intent , overwhelming grief , spiritual ecstasy or sexual arousal during the drama experience . |
| 5 | Treaty and that therefore the rules on freedom of establishment were applicable . |
| 6 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we have major proposals to widen the M6 and obviously the lighting on part of that road will be improved when the proposals are implemented . |
| 7 | This study was designed to evaluate the effect of adenoidectomy and adenotonsillectomy compared with no surgery and thus the data on effectiveness of treatment with ventilation tubes are somewhat a by-product . |
| 8 | mankind must first of all , drink , have shelter and clothing , before it can pursue politics , science , art , religion , etc. ; and therefore the production of the immediate material means of subsistence … forms the foundation upon which the State institutions , the legal conceptions , art , and even the ideas on religion , of the people concerned have been evolved ( F. Engels , speech at the graveside of Karl Marx ) . |
| 9 | Put a piece of kitchen foil on the plate and then the mould on top of that . |
| 10 | In window boxes plant grape hyacinths , dwarf daffodils or dwarf tulips first and then the pansies on top . |
| 11 | And indeed the reflections on art by modernists such as Flaubert , Klee , and Auguste Macke did hold that literature and painting should be like music in a quest for the attainment of formal qualities and in a departure from realist notions of representation . |
| 12 | An announcement concerning changes to the Food Hygiene ( Amendment ) Regulations was received after thee April issue of Hospitality had gone to press and consequently the information on temperature in our Refrigeration feature was , unfortunately , incorrect . |
| 13 | For example birth control , you see you could use the same argument , you could say oh the Catholics say birth control is unnatural and we know they have a whole position on that and yet the data on infertility shows that in fact most women generate antibodies to some sperm , so the , those datas suggest that actively discriminating against sperm on the part of the women is actually natural and all that is happening in modern birth control technology is that women are developing or building on a natural er foundation that is already there namely to be choosy about when they become pregnant and by whom . |
| 14 | Before submitting the document we must be sure that a full Information memorandum exists , and ideally the data on input form should be taken from the completed Information memorandum . |
| 15 | The non-profit organization typically has no risk capital invested in it , and therefore the returns on capital are of little importance . |