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

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1 In due course the original will be registered , and after that the entries on the Register will replace it .
2 We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after .
3 As usual the singles on the final day produced a thrilling climax and this time it had everything .
4 After this the documents on paper which date to 1925 would form the second stage of the conservation campaign .
5 Discuss the space requirements of serial , inverted and multilist files , making clear the assumptions on which you are working .
6 The disadvantage is that , on average , half the records on the track need to be shunted up ( in this example records 113 , 1 14 and 116 have been moved ) , and the overflow area will also require updating .
7 If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time .
8 This question is best answered by the remarks of the hon. Member for Islington , North , who courageously and clearly articulated the views of , I suspect , more than half the Members on the Opposition Benches .
9 Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions .
10 Even as late as 1956 a considerable earthquake destroyed half the buildings on the west coast of the island .
11 That is it 's worth half the marks on one of your three papers .
12 In 1950 more than half the shares on the New York stockmarket and in London were owned by individuals .
13 Nearly half the songs on Lovesexy explicitly expound Prince 's nebulous ideas about salvation , and the rest of the album is limned with references to a ‘ new power ’ , a positivism that is our answer to the problems of a world that 's going to hell in a handbasket .
14 Over half the assaults on women are domestic , according to the crime survey of 1986 , and , as the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , are now being reported and investigated .
15 Nor do they take lightly his abuse of Mitbestimmung , the hallowed German practice of giving workers a voice in public companies by setting aside for them nearly half the seats on supervisory boards .
16 In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance .
17 The appeal court in Bucharest overturned on Dec. 12 the convictions on March 25 [ see p. 38108 ] of 16 former communist politburo members for " favouring the criminal " ( i.e. Ceausescu ) over the actions to counter demonstrations in Timisoara and Bucharest , which had led to the overthrow of the communist regime in December 1989 .
18 The Commission announced on July 5 , 1989 , that it was to phase out by January 1993 the limits on the value of goods which citizens of EC member states were allowed to take across internal borders , in readiness for the abolition of border controls .
19 Careful the spoons on the plates are hot .
20 2 The effects on the child of uncertainty and multiple parent figures
21 I hope you realised they said a few a words on there that 's just been picked up like while I was
22 I told her I 'd breast-fed the children on it and taught them to read by the fire on it , and that it had been wonderful as a family gathering place for many years .
23 So they 'll have so many houses to work in , they will go along initially and make sure the plugs on er irons and It sounds very simple but it 's part of helping the community .
24 His bruises are n't going to hurt him , make sure the ones on her will . ’
25 Rumours will no doubt circulate throughout the town and , as a figure of authority within the club , I am sure the artisans on the terraces will side with Reg , but let me put forward my reason for sacking him .
26 For safety 's sake , make sure the points on the ends of the sticks are blunted or masked with tape .
27 Each stage of the operation is recorded on a tape machine and each operator reports the end of each stage to that machine and the machine will — providing all the agents on that scheme have also reported in — tell you the next stage . ’
28 Also , I need to be available for the crew and all the personnel on the road to see that everything is going fine from their point of view .
29 These improvements follow the £75 million investment in the Chiltern line , which has gone into new trains , new stations , new facilities , all of which has meant a great improvement for all the commuters on that line ; those on the Thames line will benefit similarly .
30 Counsel should notify opposing counsel of the main propositions and of all the authorities on which they rely .
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