Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't want readers to think I 've gone soft on freedom to roam following a comment I made in July 's Scottish News . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Since the cases before the court are concerned with the taking up of fishing activities by nationals of a member state and the pursuit of those activities in another member state using a vessel registered in that state , article 59 of the E.E.C Treaty on freedom to provide services , which was raised by the Spanish Government , does not seem to me to be applicable . |
| 3 | Ruth Gardner suggests that the crux of a relationship between child and responsible adult is centred on decision making , control , letting go , risk taking and ensuring that advice and support are reliably available . |
| 4 | For now we will restrict ourselves to data on decision making and publication times . |
| 5 | However , the government is adverse to earmarking sums for books in perpetuity , as its whole policy centres on decision making at school level . |
| 6 | The most frequently mentioned aspect of change was that the consciousness of the cost of treatment now had a bearing on decision making . |
| 7 | Whether management awareness profiles have any effect on decision making , however , is still unknown . |
| 8 | The research by Thompson ( 1986 ) on decision making within district health authorities found much evidence of bargaining , not just between the different coalitions of politicians , administrators and the medical profession but also within these coalitions . |
| 9 | The project has developed out of previous research funded by the ESRC on decision making processes in transport operations . |
| 10 | The continuous tendering process , the impact of deregistrations and the rate of change in the commercial network exert extreme pressures on decision making processes . |
| 11 | For the university sector a special intermediary body exists , the University Grants Committees and , apart from local authority representation on university governing bodies , there is no link with local governments For the rest of higher education — the polytechnics and colleges of higher education — the involvements , in most areas , of more than one local authority has been acknowledged through special arrangements to share management and pool costs . |
| 12 | Assuming a proportionally similar take-up on university validated courses , there were about 8,500 students on all Dip.HE courses . |
| 13 | The amount of time spent by ward sisters on teaching varies considerably . |
| 14 | Then , on a weekend 's trip to Grayshotts Health Farm to recharge the batteries and the credit cards , I attended a lecture on meditation given by a simply marvellous , crumply GP with about as much airy-fairy , guru-y wispiness as , say , Denis Healey , and I was moved to find out more . |
| 15 | Sex Roles ’ and Psychology of Women Quarterly 's occasional articles and special issues on lesbianism repeat the ‘ just like us ’ parallelism of conventional psychology by dealing predominantly with areas where lesbians are commonly expected to differ from heterosexual women , like gender role , relationships , work role , and parenthood . |
| 16 | AN ART exhibition on lesbianism has created been condemned by a councillor as ‘ filth ’ . |
| 17 | It was sometimes stated on contract notes that the firm , as well as the clients , owed interest when late in settling . |
| 18 | A considerable body of theory stresses the limits of relying on contract to manage employment relations . |
| 19 | At times other workers and firms are hired on contract to do special tasks , such as lime spreading and harvesting of peas , beans and potatoes . |
| 20 | According to Declan Troy , of TERA , an environmental consulting firm on contract to BPX-A , one bird was documented as far away as Smith Bay , near Pt . |
| 21 | Many expatriates working on contract do so on one or two occasions in order to save large sums of money . |
| 22 | Despite the initial support of the boycott by international operatic stars — most of whom were at the time on contract to work with him — Barneboim 's case did not excite much public sympathy in France . |
| 23 | Klein 's emphasis on play develops from more pragmatic concerns . |
| 24 | His astonishing ears rotated independently , one a fly swat , one on radar alert , conducting the sound of the chickadees , sending semaphore to the bees . |
| 25 | There were between 10 and 20 aircraft in the circuit at the time and G-AYIH was seen by witnesses and on radar to join the circuit at the beginning of the downwind leg about one mile south of runway 26 . |
| 26 | Some time in the early hours of the morning , Phil and another crew member , Mike Carsley , were on watch and spotted a target on radar approaching from seaward . |
| 27 | Put it on defrost to get out of carton . |
| 28 | They rely greatly on smell to guide them to food which may be an explanation for the shape of that most grotesque of sharks , the hammerhead . |
| 29 | Most mammals use their sense of smell to find food , and all rely on smell to supplement their taste buds and bring out the full flavour of food , as anyone with a heavy cold will know . |
| 30 | Most will hope to return to the House ; and on part form many will do so , but the immediate problems of adjustment will be hard . |