Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the long years of the Pax Mongolica ended many banners have fluttered over Kiev , almost impossible to defend in its position on the fertile flatlands east of the Carpathians . |
| 2 | The candidate survey differed from the client survey in three respects : first , the rate of response was slightly lower , despite the fact that it was carefully based on the Financial Times listings of movements of executives and on firms where much headhunting was known to have taken place ; second , the views of headhunters were more negative ; and third , none would mention the names of specific search firms or venture opinions on them in particular . |
| 3 | One of the most remarkable guide-posts is Dunston Pillar on the former heathlands south-east of Lincoln . |
| 4 | Insurers , who have lost millions of pounds on their motor accounts in the past year , blame the steep increases on the poor claims record of hot hatches . |
| 5 | It should focus attention on the key results areas of the project and on the contributions of individuals towards achieving them . |
| 6 | They are taken from the recent Policy Studies Institute ( PSI ) report on the Metropolitan Police force of London . |
| 7 | The number of core units you can afford will depend on the total points value of the army . |
| 8 | an old case on the offensive trades provisions of the Public Health Act 1875 . |
| 9 | Should the judges take it into their heads to question this ‘ authority ’ ( as occasionally they have ) then much of it is not too difficult to discount , as being obiter dicta , or as relating only to a rather narrow , specific point , ( e.g. the effect of a fraud on the Private Bills Committee of the House of Commons ) and leaving untouched the broader general question . |
| 10 | Personally , I think that if we can obtain in Cambridgeshire a federation of WEA student groups which will be represented on the Rural Areas Committee of the Extra-Mural Board in the same way as we are represented by a kindred federation in Bedfordshire , there will not be anything lost from the WEA point of view , in the Board being recognised as the responsible body . |
| 11 | It paid the RTC $41m last year over its work on the Lincoln S&L and faced a $560m claim over Arthur Young 's work on the Western Savings Association of Texas . |
| 12 | On the part-time farms 18% of the wives had off-farm jobs , varying from 18 hours per week to full-time employment . |
| 13 | Each is meant to be an improvement on the overwhelming developers architecture of the Sixties , of which Hammersmith is a shrine . |
| 14 | Taking the more favourable contracted out rate the employee 's National Insurance contribution is 2% up on the lower earnings limit of £2,704 and 7% up on the difference between the lower earnings limit and the upper earnings limit of £20,280 . |
| 15 | It was this sanitary principle which exerted a major structural influence on the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864 , 1866 and 1869 . |
| 16 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 17 | In addition to his work promoting the Contagious Diseases Acts , in the 1860s he also served on the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association , helping to draft legislation on habitual drunkenness , infant mortality and the examination and registration of midwives . |
| 18 | The American stockmarket now trades on a not-cheap price-earnings ratio of 14 based on Wall Street 's profit estimates for 1990 . |
| 19 | Profits should rise from £2.09m to £2.5m in the year to May 1990 , rating the shares , down 1p to 242p yesterday , on a modest earnings multiple of around eight times . |