Example sentences of "on [art] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Just advise you on the dates of last year .
2 Attention has centred throughout on the releases of radioactive iodine and its subsequent ingestion over a wide area of Britain and Western Europe .
3 The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol .
4 The IMF , however , taking into account another failure in the June test , suspended further drawdowns and negotiations commenced on the conditions for further assistance , expected to include a further devaluation .
5 The huge quantity of accumulated paper values are tokens , the realisation of which lies wholly in the future and depends , on the one hand , on the conditions of capitalist reproduction and , on the other hand , on the very existence of the capitalist system .
6 Darwin was eager to emphasise the reputation of the scientists who had worked on the descriptions for each volume .
7 First there 's a run down on the basics of all terrain driving .
8 Thus the work is varied and interesting , and the rapid changes in climatic conditions that sometimes afflict the islands ensure continuous concentration on the basics of safe operation .
9 All curriculums shall focus on the basics in high school requirements and it shall be inundated with advanced sciences and additional applied math , English and writing skills .
10 The definition suggested has been framed on the lines of existing law .
11 To re-define charity by statute on the lines of existing law would not be easy and might well confuse rather than clarify the law , for the essential difficulties connected with benefit to the public require more explanation and analysis than is convenient in an Act of Parliament .
12 At the same time Keegan believes there would be value in a ‘ swap ’ system that enabled clubs to put four freed players into a pool then draw lots for a draft pick on the lines of American Football .
13 As far as the wording of the actual policy itself is concerned I think we would er certainly prefer er wording on the lines of strict control , in other words quoting er P P G rather than the not normally permitted approach .
14 The first requirement of the system is for the librarian at each service point to estimate the desired size of his stock on the shelves for each interest category .
15 Observations on the Responses to Systematic Stimulation of the Caudate in Mammals .
16 He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations .
17 Explanations with physical content draw on the laws of physical causality .
18 The various books of the resulting work , entitled A Treatise on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity , justified the Elizabethan church as a via media between the extremes of Roman Catholicism and radical Puritanism , and defended its own particular ceremonial style and form of government .
19 If this is not the image that most people have about mental handicap hospitals it is because their concept of such places is founded on the attitudes toward mental handicap prevalent in society , and on various myths surrounding mental handicap which persist to this day .
20 Amnesty is not in the business of commenting on the attitudes of any culture — thank goodness .
21 In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning .
22 We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’
23 The state of the nation was inevitably one of the major themes of the talk on the hills at that period ; but so also was the change that was taking place rapidly in the collieries of the steam-coal areas where work was being ‘ rationalized ’ , a much-used euphemism for the cutting of labour costs .
24 • Viewers who can pick up BBC 1 Wales ' transmission can see Tony Matthews ' verdict on the chances of Welsh food in the North American arena on ‘ Farming in Wales ’ , Sunday July 28 at 10.00 am , when he comments on the products on display at the Royal Welsh Show Food Hall .
25 This little-explored area , where technology and imagination meet , reflects the debate in France and the United States on the limits of architectural awareness .
26 Be careful with toxic substances and always follow the directions on the bottles with great care .
27 Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism .
28 Society was now based on complicity in the common crime ; religion was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it ; while morality was based partly on the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt .
29 We are all habituated to the synthetic magic of the cinema whereby , to quote from Robert Cumming 's amusing meditation on the differences between still photography and film : " An actor on location in Washington , D.C. , might be filmed rounding the corner of Connecticut Avenue , striding up the walk , and on reaching the door , he gives the knob a turn , entering .
30 It may well be that in some metropolitan areas Labour is suffering the kind of adverse voter reaction noted in the London boroughs , but the issue of the poll tax appears itself to have had very little substantive impact on the differences in electoral behaviour between authorities .
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