Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [art] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Siege-engines demanded on the one hand skilled operators , and on the other a plentiful supply of unskilled labourers to move the necessary materials .
2 According to analyses based on the 1983 Labour Force Survey , migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force was then restricted to non-manual workers ; though unemployment rates for manual workers were markedly higher in the North than the South , there was no net migration of manual workers to the South ( Hughes and McCormick , 1987a ) .
3 This opens the way for low-cost and high-performance 64M-bit Flash memory chips based on a 0.4 micron design rule .
4 Typically , these governments talk on the one hand of establishing socialism , and on the other of wanting to work within the constraints of a democratic constitution .
5 If that view is correct , as I take it to be , then the non-use of gas is one area in which the laws-of-war approach on the one hand , and the deterrence approach on the other , may have complemented each other .
6 Flight timings are shown for guidance only and are local times based on the 24 hour clock system .
7 Recent studies rely on the one hand on techniques of transplanting tissues , or cells , or even individual genes , from one site to another , and on the other of identifying the genes concerned in particular processes .
8 You must include all payments made on the eight calendar weeks .
9 It 's structure will comprise ordinary shares , with warrants attached on a one-for-five basis at an issue price of £1 a share .
10 A group of mums working on a one day per week rota can look after the arrangements for this .
11 Workstation One for Windows runs on an 80286 machine with VGA , XGA 8514/A or SuperVGA monitor ( or other Windows 3.0-supported EGA-compatible display ) and network adaptor as before ; it requires a minimum of 4Mb , MS-DOS 3.3 up , Windows 3.0 or 3.1 , Microsoft LAN Manager Client 2.0 or Novell Netware Client 3.11 .
12 Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) .
13 The questionnaire included personal details ( age , sex , current grade of employment , ethnic group , marital status , years of full time education , highest level of education , partner 's and father 's occupation , housing tenure , and car ownership ) ; health ( self rated health over the past 12 months , presence of longstanding illness , and presence of recurring health problems based on questions used in the general household survey , and presence of psychiatric symptoms based on the 30 item general health questionnaire ) ; health related behaviours ( current smoking habits , usual frequency of alcohol consumption in past 12 months , and amount of alcohol consumed in the past seven days ) ; psychosocial work characteristics ( assessed with a 67 item questionnaire based on the occupational strain model of job demands and decision latitude which included questions on control , variety and use of skills , and work pace as proposed by Karasek , support at work , and job satisfaction ) ; social circumstances outside work ( number of dependent children , social contact with relatives and friends , and personal difficulties such as financial problems ) ; and types of social support ( assessed by 15 self report questions on up to four nominated close friends or relatives ) .
14 And the boys say on the one side and the girls on the other .
15 An examination of other reports based on the 1981 census , however , clearly shows that an overwhelming number of such children almost certainly belong to economically inactive , single parent families .
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