Example sentences of "on the [adj] front " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The businessman does n't want to go to different people to talk about things on the marketing front and someone else on the financial front . ’ |
| 2 | They have no chance of winning the title this season and in the long term they 'll struggle to win the Premier League because they ca n't compete with Blackburn , Arsenal , Leeds and Manchester United … not only on the playing field but on the financial front . |
| 3 | A busy day on the financial front , at one point the FTSE index of the top one hundred companies rose above the twenty-five hundred mark to suffer later losses . |
| 4 | A busy day on the financial front , at one point the FTSE index of the top one hundred companies rose above the twenty-five hundred mark to suffer later losses . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , with eclipses on the 9th and 24th , it is a powerfully transformative month , especially on the emotional front . |
| 6 | On the stopping front , there are no ABS brakes , but the ventilated discs at the front seemed capable enough in my spell with the Nissan . |
| 7 | There was little glory for Italy in dying on the Russian front , as so many did in 1942 . |
| 8 | Although the Austrian and Hungarian armies were ethnically very mixed and contained Germans , Magyars , Poles and even Italians , there were very few Czech , Slovene and Ruthenian regiments on the Russian Front . |
| 9 | Goodbye Transylvania follows his fortunes on the Russian Front , in the Battle of the Bulge and in Germany . |
| 10 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 11 | Er i i nineteen eighteen in the Army , they er came round er asking for volunteers to relieve the British troops er on the Russian front , where there was fighting , the Russian Revolution . |
| 12 | It was this group that radioed the warning of Operation Blue , the attack on Stalingrad that led to Hitler 's biggest wartime disaster on the Russian Front . ’ |
| 13 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 14 | It is true that Spain 's only military contribution to the fighting was the despatch of volunteers ( the " Blue Division " ) who fought on the Russian front as part of the German Army , and that Spain did not declare war on any country . |
| 15 | Even when Hitler was forced to beat a retreat for the first time , on the Russian front at the end of December 1942 , Spanish support did not waver . |
| 16 | The final agreement was that he would serve only on the Russian Front . |
| 17 | ‘ I only fly on the Russian Front . |
| 18 | On the diplomatic front Gorbachev is hoping to persuade European countries that Russia is no longer a threat . |
| 19 | But whatever happened on the diplomatic front , it seemed , arms expenditure rose . |
| 20 | The continuing Gulf crisis was characterized during September by ( i ) the progressive strengthening of the military position of the multinational anti-Iraq coalition , as forces arrived to take up positions in the region and further commitments were made ; ( ii ) the tightening of the economic embargo , extended to include interdiction of air traffic from Sept. 25 ; and ( iii ) the growing perception on the diplomatic front that a negotiated solution might only be achievable in the context of a wider consideration of conflicts in the region . |
| 21 | On the industrial front , the translation of Cripps to the Treasury spelt the demise of regional policy as a major means of planning [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 22 | " The battle for the environment will be fought on the industrial front " , she declared , and she suggested that environmental protection should be regarded as a " high-tech industry " . |
| 23 | But the central argument on the industrial front is that if you bring a large number of extra jobs into an area where the unemployment is much below the national average , and much below the regional average , then you are going to bring people from the surrounding area in and many of those people we believe would far prefer to have found jobs nearer their existing homes . |
| 24 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 25 | Furthermore , while ‘ logically ’ it might appear that at least from summer 1941 only Hitler could be blamed for the extension and prolongation of the war , a sufficient platform had been constructed by years of propaganda and ideological indoctrination to buttress the transfer of the blame to Germany 's external enemies — the Bolsheviks , the Jews , the British , the Americans — or to internal incompetence , naturally stopping short of the Führer , as when Field Marshal von Brauchitsch was made the scapegoat for mistakes in strategy and provisioning on the eastern Front in the winter of 1941–2 . |
| 26 | Many were amazed that the war against Bolshevism was already more or less over , but no less a person than the Führer himself had again lent support to such notions with his proclamation to the soldiers on the eastern Front on 2 October , in which he spoke of ‘ the last mighty blow to smash the enemy even before the onset of winter ’ . |
| 27 | The sagging morale and worsening of mood in the second half of 1941 was not solely determined by the changing fortunes on the eastern Front . |
| 28 | Some thought the Führer must have meant only the losses on the eastern Front , not including Stalingrad and those missing , and put the real figure at something like one and a half million . |
| 29 | The September speech was said to have disappointed many in the Würzburg area because it provided no comforting words about the situation on the eastern Front . |
| 30 | In fact , however , new disappointments followed on Hitler 's confident promises : the bombing , almost unimpeded by German defences , intensified ; the situation on the eastern Front worsened almost by the day ; and in the west an invasion was expected at any time . |