Example sentences of "on the [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the more positive side , degree classifications for graduates are also recorded , based on the students ' progressive average . |
| 2 | Some courses draw on the students ' own experience , usually in the workplace . |
| 3 | Reliance on the brewers ' better nature is a precarious sort of dependency , where today 's Jekyll can be tomorrow 's Hyde . |
| 4 | But the conductor can focus the horn player 's skill and knowledge on the musicians ' joint performance . |
| 5 | The movement called for a referendum on the islands ' continued union with the mainland . |
| 6 | One of the most telling studies — because it scored a direct hit on the interventionists ' favourite example — was a paper published in 1973 by Steven Cheung , then at the University of Washington : ‘ The Fable of the Bees ’ . |
| 7 | Early analysis concentrated on the multinationals ' invested position abroad . |
| 8 | However , in other situations Customs have deemed that there is a non-monetary consideration in addition to the price paid and that VAT is therefore due on the goods ' normal selling price . |
| 9 | This section is therefore designed to show how the companies scan their environments to identify these fundamental and broad-ranging changes that might have an impact on the companies ' future outlook . |
| 10 | There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ‘ first enlighteners of the Siberian people ’ had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill-fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on-going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state . |
| 11 | The two fresh contenders of greatest interest , if only because they were not even in the side when Scotland trounced Ireland at Murrayfield , are Peter Clohessy on the tight-head — a player who incurred the wrath of Australia 's Bob Dwyer but who was held to have made quite an impact on the Lions ' top brass versus Wales — and the young stand-off , Eric Ellwood . |
| 12 | Kinnock 's success in altering party policy was made easier , if less meaningful , by the end of the cold war , but a public onslaught on the Conservatives ' military record , including the maintainance of Trident , would have opened up debate within Labour ranks , as well as risking alienating voters on the question of defence employment . |
| 13 | An analysis and assessment of the findings of previous catalogue use studies may shed some light on the users ' apparent change of heart towards the library catalogue since the advent of online systems . |
| 14 | Whereas aphids rely on the ants ' normal aggression against predators , the caterpillar administers an aggression-arousing drug and it seems to slip them something addictively binding as well . |
| 15 | Continued success in this area will obviously depend in part on the unions ' continued ability to stay abreast of developments , and contribute to any agreement or trade and legal standards that are produced . |
| 16 | Trade union members have been given more say via pre-strike ballots , regular elections of their officials , and votes on the unions ' political levy . |
| 17 | Oxford Pocket English Grammar is modelled on the authors ' best-selling classic , Practical English Grammar , and is designed for learners of English at lower intermediate and higher levels . |
| 18 | Just as the statements of attainment reflect the experience and predilections of subject working groups , so the sequences in Profiles of Development depend on the authors ' underlying theory of teaching rather than any inexorable path of learning . |
| 19 | Mr Cristiani appears to have succeeded in isolating the FMLN , but it is unclear whether the agreement will have any impact on the guerrillas ' military activity . |
| 20 | On the plaintiffs ' originating summons for a declaration that the ombudsman did not have jurisdiction to investigate and determine the borrowers ' complaints : — |