Example sentences of "on the part [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This demonstration was the first independent action on the part of a teachers ' association ; previously , they had been government controlled .
2 Resentment was always present when parents felt either that there was a lack of openness or frankness on the part of the professionals or administrators , or that they were being coerced , or that their concern for and about their child was being called into question .
3 There needs to be a willingness on the part of the professionals to change and an openness to identifying success and failure , trying new and innovative approaches , while keeping the goal , the cost and the time targets in mind .
4 Certainly the intention is there on the part of the professionals .
5 When presented in this way the proposed merger appears to be based on clear industrial logic , although it was considered by some to be partly a defensive move on the part of the companies involved ( especially Imperial , which was hoping that , by increasing its own size , it would help to reduce the chance of an unwanted takeover from a third party ) .
6 This was not altruism on the part of the brewers , but was born out of a realisation that preserving the best of their heritage could make them money .
7 By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches .
8 Arguments based on deference to the judgment of corporate managers or those based on the finding of a personal interest or a non-corporate purpose on the part of the directors have the appearance of mere slogans to justify either judicial restraint or intervention .
9 While it is indisputable that the proportions of both sub-degree and part-time courses in the polytechnics have declined , it remains to be proved that this is the result of policy on the part of the directors and their staffs ; it would seem much more likely to be a case of students ‘ voting with their feet ’ by opting for full-time degree courses .
10 The following additional covenant is therefore suggested : To ensure that all other leases within the Centre contain similar covenants on the part of the Landlord and the Tenant and similar service charge provisions to those contained in this lease and to enforce the covenants on the part of the tenants contained in such other leases
11 Trawling the harbour the previous afternoon for a lift was not easy — not many boats to choose from and a distinct wariness on the part of the seamen .
12 Indeed , there was an attitude of ignoring our welfare on the part of the authorities .
13 But most cattle theft in this region was casual , and increased vigilance on the part of the authorities succeeded in reducing its level in the late nineteenth century .
14 No doubt this tendency may be attributable , at least in part , to a lack of responsiveness on the part of the authorities to widespread fears and legitimate demands , even when these are expressed in a constitutional manner by broad sectors of the public , particularly as in the case of the recent deployment of cruise missiles .
15 This approach was , however , consciously supressed thereafter , and to some degree neutralised , by an approach based on the history of ideas , the purpose being , of course , to avoid unwelcome attention on the part of the authorities towards the Warburg Library and the University 's Art History Department with its predominantly Jewish staff .
16 Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence .
17 Acute hardship persisted until widows ' pensions — granted in 1925 — ameliorated the problem , but even then ambivalent feelings on the part of the authorities about the proper place of the able-bodied widow persisted .
18 The moves were linked by observers to sensitivity on the part of the authorities at the approach of the anniversary of the anti-government riots of July 1990 [ see p. 37603 ] .
19 The trial of Chihana , released on bail on Sept. 8 [ for his arrest in April see p. 38851 ; for his release and subsequent rearrest in July see pp. 38995-96 ] , was deferred until Oct. 12 after his counsel argued that irregularities on the part of the authorities threatened a miscarriage of justice .
20 To some extent , this lack of guidance provides greater flexibility on the part of the authorities , who are not constrained by a requirement to satisfy some precisely defined criterion of dominance as a precondition for investigation .
21 This is not through any lack of distinction on the part of the writers of the time or those of their works that show the Greek influence ; nor is there any lack of such works .
22 On the part of the Governors ’ ; Sewell was doing the governors ' bidding .
23 The wise use of police discretion and the genuine effort not to go too far in their protest on the part of the pickets and demonstrators is the formula for resolution of this aspect of conflict .
24 The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation .
25 That , it is admitted , was a misunderstanding , if not more , on the part of the justices .
26 This caution on the part of the Communists was due to their natural antipathy to the Liberal Party , their desire to concentrate on the campaign for affiliation to the Labour Party , and organizational conflicts with the People 's Front Propaganda Committee .
27 From the pupils ' perspective they are not there to accept passively any offensive action on the part of the teachers merely because they are pupils .
28 Lord Tucker observed : ‘ I do not question that such a drastic step [ closure of the factory ] … may be required on the part of a reasonably prudent employer if the peril to his employees is sufficiently grave , and to this extent it must always be a question of degree , but , in my view , there was no evidence in the present case which could justify a finding of negligence for failure on the part of the respondents to take this step . ’
29 The petitioner pleaded in reply that no binding compromise had been reached and asserted , in the alternative that the compromise agreement had been cancelled by the failure on the part of the respondents to pay the sums due to be paid thereunder .
30 So on the pleadings there were three separate issues , first the compromise issue namely whether the petitioner had agreed to abandon its claims in respect of the Clearwater transaction , secondly the cancellation issue , namely whether any compromise had been cancelled by breach on the part of the respondents , and thirdly the misconduct issue , namely whether , the petitioner was entitled to damages in respect of the Clearwater transaction .
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