Example sentences of "of [noun pl] on [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another material obligation is that imposed by rule 3.5(1) , which requires a member , as a price of his continuing membership , to be satisfied that the controllers , directors and senior management of an appointed representative are of good character , competent and otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investments on the member 's behalf . |
| 2 | In Marian 's view one reason for the scarcity of solicitors on the judges ' benches lies in something of a vicious circle . |
| 3 | Some 2,000 representatives of Ivoirian institutions , trade unions and lobby groups met President Félix Houphouet-Boigny for five days of discussions on the country 's economic , social and political problems on Sept. 21-26 , 1989 . |
| 4 | Unless and until we find a deterministic control , presumably deep inside the earth , I can see only a series of accidents , most of these accidents seem to be the collisions of continents on the earth 's surface . |
| 5 | The advent of Michael Heseltine at the DTI unleashed a torrent of words on the Government 's new , active approach . |
| 6 | The lessening of demands on the husband 's time was equally important to the full-time farm and to the part-time unit . |
| 7 | Even in apparently well-integrated families , fathers exert only the smallest of influences on the child 's sports participation . |
| 8 | ‘ The aim of soil geography is to record and explain the development and distribution of soils on the earth 's surface It is a branch of learning which lies between soil science and geography and is of particular importance to both subjects … soil studies are one means of integrating large parts of physical geography in a way which is of immediate relevance to mankind and in this way gives coherence to geography as a whole . ’ |
| 9 | The editor who replied to the letter which protested at the lack of blacks on the magazine 's editorial board ( NI 185 ) , has hung himself ( sic ) with his own belt . |
| 10 | The tomb will not open immediately to the public : a two year monitoring programme will attempt to measure the environmental impact of visitors on the tomb 's fragile climate , with particular reference to humidity , temperature and harmful bacteria . |
| 11 | It is to be doubted if unsecured trade creditors have much , if any , interest in the state of encumbrances on a company 's property as they normally will only be interested in whether the company can pay its debts as they fall due . |
| 12 | But he was still so close that he could smell the perfume of patchouli on the corpse 's moustache . |
| 13 | Earlier , in one of the best speeches by an outgoing party chairman in recent years , Anne McGuire added her voice to chorus of attacks on the SNP 's action . |
| 14 | Actually , the experiment is not perfect because , strictly speaking , Andersson only showed that the number of nests on a male 's territory was related to tail length ; the eggs could have been fertilized by another male , and the female then attracted to the territory of a male with a longer tail . |
| 15 | We 're going to be looking at erm the contrast between and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town erm and so on . |
| 16 | Being so close it 's much beloved of families on a day 's outing , but is still an alpine hut for all that . |
| 17 | If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year . |
| 18 | It seems , therefore , that the prevalence of spots on the Sun 's surface follows not a single I l-year cycle but a 22-year ‘ double-cycle ’ . |
| 19 | THE US state department is being accused of trying to sabotage a recent conference in Vietnam that was called to discuss the long-term effects of the spraying of defoliants on the country 's forests by American planes during the Vietnam War . |
| 20 | For middle-class workers who suffer , there is the comfort of constraints on the boss 's pay rise . |
| 21 | The purpose of the registration provisions is to ‘ secure the registration of charges on a company 's property . ’ |
| 22 | Trade officials worry about the impact of charges on the colony 's competitiveness . |
| 23 | Thus they decided that : the number of governors on the school 's policy-making group , the management board , should be increased by three ; the right of governors to attend the meetings of all other groups in the school 's internal consultative structure would be formalised ; the governors would continue to establish task groups and working parties of their own and these would continue to be open to all teachers . |
| 24 | The Substitute flipped open the latest of the pile of newspapers on the Captain 's desk . |
| 25 | Wages rose with inflation after the war to £8 a week but only a minority of players on a club 's books received this . |
| 26 | The effect of sanctions on the island 's weak economy , highly dependent on trade with the USA , was expected to be instantaneous and food and oil supplies were already reported to be nearly exhausted . |
| 27 | Now for the second in our series of reports on the RAF 's parachute display team from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | Leaders from Serbian , Croatian and Muslim groups and a senior Yugoslav army general made a joint plea on Sarajevo television for an ‘ absolute and immediate ceasefire ’ and the resumption of talks on the republic 's future . |
| 29 | Signor Jose Cutileiro of Portugal said the deal called for the removal of heavy artillery from towns and villages , the suspension of mass mobilisation , the disbanding of all paramilitary groups and the resumption of talks on the republic 's political and constitutional order . |
| 30 | For Louisa Coutts Trotter , whose hypochondriacal father was constantly on the move seeking new cures , her grandmother 's Edinburgh house was a fixed point in their peregrinations ; while Willoughby de Broke eccentrically opens his autobiography with a series of chapters on the family 's houses , rather than on its people . |