Example sentences of "on [art] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Wheldrake Ings account book for 1868–1934 , it is specified that the meadows be mown on the dates appointed by the Ings masters , and that thereafter a carefully controlled number of cattle , branded with a W , may be pastured until the autumn , when they are taken off on ‘ Ings Breaking Day ’ , a custom which is still observed . |
| 2 | In Scotland , East Kilbride ( 1947 ) was a New Town on the London model , as an overspill centre for Glasgow , but Glenrothes ( 1948 ) had a function akin to Peterlee , as a collector point for the East Fife coalfield , on the lines advocated in the Regional Plan for Central and South-east Scotland ( Mears , 1948 ) . |
| 3 | The creation of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in 1943 , followed by the Town and Country Planning Act of 1944 , provided both the machinery and the powers for comprehensive redevelopment on the lines envisaged by the more ambitious advocates of planning . |
| 4 | This criticism leaves open the possibility of a different sort of causal theory , on the lines suggested at the end of 2.2 . |
| 5 | Thus the closing months of 1954 found the US Joint Chiefs of Staff arguing ( exactly on the lines feared by the British ) " that the timely achievement of the broad objective of U.S. security policy can not be brought about if the United States is required to defer to the counsel of the most cautious among our Allies " . |
| 6 | AS ONE of the original correspondents who wrote to David Bull complaining about the India campaign letter , I would like to comment on the criticisms made by the female correspondent in the August/September edition of AMNESTY . |
| 7 | These are clearly centred on the figures revealed by the operating statements , and these provide a convenient framework for considering them . |
| 8 | Other companies might have been prepared to rest on the laurels earned by the Clio and spend 1992 consolidating . |
| 9 | By focusing on the tensions caused by the imposition in April 1984 of milk quotas the study will document an instance of ‘ agricultural exceptionalism ’ under stress . |
| 10 | Secondly , to explore the formal and ideological parameters and ambitions of the three published novels with a view to assessing the efficacy of a revolutionary literature ; here , attention will be focused specifically on the tensions arising from the injection of a communist and hence anti-bourgeois political content within an archetypal bourgeois literary form . |
| 11 | Since 1980 , however , the member countries have failed to agree on the quotas recommended by the IATTC . |
| 12 | This relationship takes the form of the Public Account Committee basing its investigations on the reports submitted by the C. and A.G. |
| 13 | As a result , a great deal of the research on foreign language learning focuses on the problems involved , and usually on the errors made by the students of the second language . |
| 14 | ( For a ‘ developed ’ country , this will probably concentrate on the questions asked in the census form ; for other parts of the world the method of conducting the census may be of more interest . ) |
| 15 | A single line railway ran from St George 's to Kelly 's Island , the full length of the colony , and many Bermudians brought their bicycles part of the way to town on the flat-cars attached to the train for that purpose . |
| 16 | If a possible action does emerge from the evidence available an attempt will be made to put a monetary valuation on the injuries suffered by the plaintiff . |
| 17 | Since the charter mark is designed to improve public services , does my hon. Friend agree that the attack launched today on the citizens charter by the National and Local Government Officers Association in a lavish newspaper advertising campaign is typical of that union 's contempt for the consumer and lack of interest in improving public services ? |
| 18 | ‘ In addition , the world oil prices have n't increased as predicted , even as recently as two years ago , and that has also had a negative impact on the decisions taken by the world 's oil producers . |
| 19 | Moira Burgess , the compiler of the 1986 edition of the Directory of Authors in the Scottish Fiction Reserve , has been asked to begin work on the revisions needed for the next edition , projected for publication in the course of 1993–4 . |
| 20 | They dabble in composites , and keep a weather eye on the developments made by the small specialists . |
| 21 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 22 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 23 | Ivan III had established several thousand new landowners on the estates confiscated from the victims of his conquest of Novgorod in the 1470s . |
| 24 | The primary focus of research is on the records generated by the enforcement in the late fourteenth century of the labour laws , the earliest attempt at national wage regulation . |
| 25 | Arctic plants would have been transported southwards on icebergs , and would have established themselves on the islands corresponding to the modern mountains . |
| 26 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 27 | We suggest that , providing the teacher and observer are well aware of the distorting factors in the report-back system , the damaging effect on the inferences drawn from the report will be minimized . |
| 28 | Blanche turned her biro slowly round in her fingers , meditating on the patterns created by the octagonal tube of plastic , and asked for the name of the dry cleaner 's . |
| 29 | A Restriction such as restrictive covenants is commonly contained in a transfer or ( before first registration of title ) a " Rule 72 transfer " , is noted on the Charges Register on the transaction being registered . |
| 30 | Steve Rodrick 's comments ( Points of View , 4 February ) , together with those of John Palmer today , on recent progress made by the Central Scotland Woodlands Countryside Trust help to shed some light on the difficulties faced by the organisation . |