Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Brennan adapted the capital asset pricing model to try to gauge the effects of dividends and taxes on the returns to shareholders : where . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Draw features and patterns on the eggs with a pencil before you boil and dye them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Morling said the statement by the Tobacco Institute was likely to mislead smokers and nonsmokers on the effects of smoking . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This would allow all adults connected with the school the opportunity to share their perceptions and ideas on the implications of the school 's increasing self-managing role and to reflect upon this with each other . |
| 12 | Presently , each of the COSE participants is pledged to brief its partners and licensees on the ramifications of the COSE movement . |
| 13 | Presently , each of the COSE participants is pledged to brief its partners and licensees on the ramifications of the COSE movement . |
| 14 | Because in-kind transfers appear overly paternalistic , ‘ liberal ’ economists would shy away from such interference and constraints on the decisions of recipients . |
| 15 | When the birds were not foraging with greenfinches , chaffinches and robins on the fragments beneath the bags , they were feeding on the nuts in the bag like other tits do , and this is seldom seen . |
| 16 | Lecturers in college are guides and advisers on the subjects of study . |
| 17 | And their only sinister discovery was bruises and contusions on the legs of one of the children … |
| 18 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 19 | Think of all the people who went to the Liverpool football ground at Anfield and hung scarves and flowers on the gates of the stadium the day after the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 20 | Mother Theresa has spent her whole life looking after the poor and sick children and babies on the streets of Calcutta . |
| 21 | Some Christians have called for representation of workers on the board of directors , joint decision-making at all levels within the company , the break-up of oligopolies , a restriction on the number of directorships any one person can hold ( the suggested number is three ) and restrictions on the directors of financial corporations holding directorships in non-financial corporations , and vice versa . |
| 22 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 23 | As women around the world celebrated International Women 's Week , Tibetan women were reliving the anniversary of the 1959 Uprising , when thousands of unarmed Tibetan women defended their right to life and freedom with sticks and stones on the streets of Lhasa . |
| 24 | Office involved not merely the central posts of government but stewardships on the estates of the Crown and other appointments . |