Example sentences of "[noun] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it is currently carrying out an environmental audit which will guide its policies in future on such matters as the use of energy , water purification , and fertilisers . |
| 2 | There is , however , continuing controversy about the extent to which reductions in mortality , especially in middle age and late life , have depended in the past and will depend in the future on collective measures to control the physical and social environment , or on voluntary , individualistic modifications in personal life-styles . |
| 3 | It may help to remember that you can not build a towering future on inadequate foundations and that the deeper you sink into experience , the higher you can soar . |
| 4 | However , the aggregate effect of arbitrage will be to bring the prices of shares and an index future on those shares into some no-arbitrage relationship . |
| 5 | Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars . |
| 6 | Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars . |
| 7 | Remember to reduce speed on downhill stretches and to watch in the mirror for traffic which may be about to overtake , and which could therefore set up a swing . |
| 8 | Alas , the great mass of weight over the tail also meant that , at high speed on damp surfaces , the 911 had a habit of disappearing off roads , backside first . |
| 9 | Record companies , he argued , make their profits by taking risks on unknown acts , which are signed for modest royalty rates . |
| 10 | Between then and 1872 Millend was advertised for sale by auction on several occasions . |
| 11 | Most significant is the fact that the soil and vegetation characteristics on low-use campsites were more similar to those of high-use sites than to control sites , with significant tree damage , reduced tree regeneration , changes in and disappearance of ground flora and compacted soils . |
| 12 | Nor did the agency consult a commission of independent scientists set up by Congress with the specific task of advising the EPA on such matters . |
| 13 | The imminent publication of guidelines on employing counsellors in primary care prepared by a working party of the British Association for Counselling will greatly help those family health services authorities and general practitioners who have yet to develop such guidelines or do not understand how to assess the qualifications and competence of counsellors they wish to employ and work with . |
| 14 | The Commission for Racial Equality has proposed such a strategy for primary care , and the NHS Management Executive has issued guidelines on equal opportunities in recruitment and selection procedures . |
| 15 | Mr Collin said there were no national guidelines on appropriate levels of reserves , but he thought Darlington 's was relatively high . |
| 16 | The first set of changes in this period led to the Sexual Offences Amendment Act in 1976 ; the second led to Home Office guidelines on revised police procedures in 1983 ( and later 1986 ) . |
| 17 | Taking a leaf from the book of other lobby groups , it is in the process of publishing guidelines on minimum standards of clinical practice and offering a consultative service to purchasers on their implementation . |
| 18 | For instance , a corporation may have clear strong central guidelines on financial targets while leaving the subsidiary companies free to choose how to achieve them . |
| 19 | Guidelines on Serbian sanctions |
| 20 | However , some members still failed to meet the guidelines on finishing jobs within 15 days of their first visit . |
| 21 | The idea of such a crude and offensive parody of the stiff , powerful heavy cavalry of the late Roman Army would appeal immensely to the peasants who could vent their feelings of resentment in bawdy mockery on those monuments of authority . |
| 22 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |
| 23 | In order to accomplish this , and to place the deaf before the public in their true light and proper position , as useful members of the community at large , the formation of an Association on American lines is most desirable . |
| 24 | Rather , Qaddafi argued that rational association of people was less valuable , less stable , intrinsically less just than association on natural bases ; and by ‘ natural ’ he meant ties of descent and kinship . |
| 25 | Gorbachev explained the new Soviet thinking on international relations with particular reference to the end of the Cold War and the recent changes in Eastern Europe . |
| 26 | Our thinking on mental hospitals has been strongly influenced by studies in which researchers pretended to be mentally ill , and in a television programme broadcast last week in Britain a reporter pretended to be homeless and schizophrenic to illustrate the bleak reality of being mentally ill and homeless ( p 726 ) . |
| 27 | We gained ready access to heads ' thinking on such matters , especially in the sample schools . |
| 28 | Lee Rothstein , director of Southport , Connecticut-based market research firm New Science Associates Inc 's advanced network computing service , takes umbrage with a lot of current thinking on open systems . |
| 29 | Obviously it will shake my thinking on these matters . |
| 30 | With this in mind the Ulster Unionist perception of British values and traditions , the empire , Ulster and southern Irish nationalists is examined and an assessment made of the compatibility of these views with British thinking on these issues . |