Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [pos pn] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Severn Trent Water company , which supplies water to much of central England , has justified its recent unannounced addition of large amounts of chlorine to its water on the grounds that it was intended to counteract any possible terrorist action related to the Gulf conflict . |
| 2 | 14 ) , wrote in his analysis of the concept of political power that : ‘ Power , then , is generalized capacity to secure the performance of binding obligations by units in a system of collective organization when the obligations are legitimized with reference to their bearing on collective goals ’ . |
| 3 | With reference to our discussion on April 8th , and the question which was left unanswered at the end , namely as to whether I regarded myself as ‘ happy ’ : |
| 4 | With reference to our meeting on March 7th : on the assumption that the Unit 's terms of reference will be agreed in some form broadly consonant with the one you indicated , I have drawn up proposals on the attached annexes under the following headings : |
| 5 | Sir , — With reference to your report on the Bell Hill Common ‘ facelift ’ — I should like to correct the impression given that Petersfield has no branch of the Hampshire Wildlife Trust . |
| 6 | With reference to your article on the inconsistencies in the Serpell report ( This Week , 27 January , p 220 ) the town of Keith is mostly surrounded by farmland and is certainly not in the middle of a peat bog ( Scottish or otherwise ) . |
| 7 | Sir — In response to your feature on ‘ Course Crisis ’ in the December 1990 issue , may I explain what Club Link is doing in this problem area . |
| 8 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 9 | In addition to their orthodoxy on the issues , this is what makes them an asset to the DUP and this is what accounts for their displacing of some of the stalwarts . |
| 10 | It is worthwhile noting that Liverpool have spent a colossal amount rebuilding Anfield in addition to their outlay on linguistically-challenged scandinavian defenders . |
| 11 | In addition to his profit on the plants which he brought from his nursery , he charged the Purefoys 1/6d. for a day 's labour in 1739 [ Eland , 1 , 94 ] , a rate that would have lifted his family to relative security , though certainly not prosperity . |
| 12 | Mr. Eccles , for I.B.C. , in addition to his emphasis on the definition in section 735(1) of the Companies Act 1985 , referred to other specific provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 in support of his submission that ‘ company ’ should be given its prima facie and primary meaning in relation to the provisions governing administrative receivers . |
| 13 | In October 1951 Brook , in addition to his paper on Cabinet committees , supplied Churchill with a brief on the composition of the Cabinet . |
| 14 | Director , Dr Patrick Dixon , was involved in numerous radio broadcasts during June , in addition to his appearance on BBC Newsroom South East 's magazine programme as part of our third birthday celebrations . |
| 15 | In most authorities the parties are represented on the committees in proportion to their distribution on the whole council . |
| 16 | As Jennifer Hunt ( 1984 ) showed in respect to her work on the police , these qualities can increase a female researcher 's penetration in the field and facilitate the development of rapport . |
| 17 | Joanne was quite happy with the way she was teaching until the GCSE began to be talked about , particularly in relation to its emphasis on investigative work and school-based assessment . |