Example sentences of "[noun] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 1993 marks the start of an ambitious new preventative health care programme which aims to stem the spread of malaria and AIDS , and SIDT is pinning its hopes for a healthy future on the villagers , whose only option is preventative health care . |
2 | Thus , cases such as Expro Services Ltd v Smith [ 1991 ] IRLR 156 , involving the contracting out by the Ministry of Defence of its catering function , should not fail in the future on the grounds that the catering operation , as carried on by the Ministry , was not in the nature of a commercial venture . |
3 | Whenever attempts were made to distinguish between means and ends , he could point to the crimes committed in the name of religion on the grounds that the end justified the means . |
4 | People who oppose religion on the grounds of its intolerance and bigotry think that the risks are very high . |
5 | I am intrigued to know how you work out the speed on the roads and tracks and how you know when to trot and when to canter ? |
6 | US President-elect Bill Clinton drives his friends round the bend with his love of speed on the roads . |
7 | I am known as Sideways Reynolds and I might have to cut back on the speed on the corners . |
8 | Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude . |
9 | However , in October 1832 , the plant and stock-in-trade of the well-equipped vinegar works were sold by auction on the premises . |
10 | Candidates are required to sell themselves to the voters not so much on the strength of their stands on the issues as on their personal qualities . |
11 | The information gained from such provings is enlarged by adding in any known toxic effects of the remedy in question which may have been noted in cases of poisoning ( either accidental or otherwise ) and is completed by noting any symptoms and signs which were not observed in the provings but which cleared up unexpectedly in patients given that remedy on the provings indications . |
12 | In its guidelines on the DMS and other ‘ courses for managers ’ issued in 1979 the Council defined access to the Diploma — which had been seen from the outset as a postgraduate award — in terms of flexible entry : in addition to the broad treatment of management studies and its supporting disciplines it incorporated |
13 | New guidelines on the dangers of moving nuclear weapons by road have just been published but anti-nuclear campaigners believe the danger is greater than has been officially admitted . |
14 | Ministers relaxed the guidelines on the exports of arms equipment to Iraq , but kept the new policy secret , to avoid criticism . |
15 | It also urges the government to calculate the costs of allergies and asthma triggered by environmental factors , and to speed up the finalization of promised guidelines on the rights of people to smoke-free air at work and in public places and the segregation of smokers and non-smokers . |
16 | Maternity units should have clear , explicit guidelines on the grounds for recommending cardiotocography so that the clinical and legal responsibility does not lie with a junior obstetrician or midwife . |
17 | A joint working group of officials was commissioned to develop guidelines on the undertakings to be provided by the governments , the legal and commercial framework , and the various technical , environmental and financial requirements to be met by promoters . |
18 | The World Health Organization ( WHO ) has adopted new guidelines on the levels of lead in drinking water . |
19 | Only with the emergence in 1747 , in an embryonic form , of a Western Squadron dedicated to cruising off the main French Atlantic bases of Brest and Rochefort , did strategic considerations overcome purely commercial and tactical ones in British thinking on the functions of the navy . |
20 | ‘ Underprescribers ’ may be simply prudent prescribers but may also not be informed on the latest thinking on the benefits of drug treatment . |
21 | In 1979 a Green Paper examined the likely growth in transport needs to the year 2000 and formed the basis of future thinking on the concepts of ‘ Community interest ’ as a justification for European action to improve transport links between the various member countries . |
22 | All through The Scale Hilton hangs his thinking on the pegs of Scriptural texts interpreted as revealing figuratively the nature of spiritual reality . |
23 | Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally . |
24 | A chance to see how wheat is cleaned and processed into flour at the Mill built in 1886 by J B Whitworth on the banks of the River Nene . |
25 | DEACON Blue will begin their first tour for over a year at the newly revamped Ingliston auditorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh . |
26 | The twigs on the brakes were all beaded and bulging as with countless white droplets but it was not frost or rain but the swelling of buds . |
27 | A legendary shepherd 's doxy who , by supposedly giving birth to a sheep , transposed herself into a creature of myth ; an 18th-century joiner 's apprentice who saw an angel ; odd echoes from the agricultural riots of the 1830s ; an imaginative squire 's hollowing out of a chalk horse on the downs . |
28 | The horn bow 's power and beauty was worth the trade of a good horse on the Plains . |
29 | Sinterklaas rides on a white horse on the roofs of the houses and throws presents down the chimneys to those children who have behaved well . |
30 | The selectors in 1991 chose 32% women artists for the final show , whereas this year 's show has 52% women artists ; although this did not reflect any conscious intention on the selectors part to discriminate in favour of women . |