Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The continuing military stalemate , even after the advent of the coalition governments of 1915 and 1916 , saw the emergence of both populist and radical right resentment , searching for an explanation of the impasse on the western front . |
2 | Taken together these two propositions suggest that the traditions of conspiracy are liable to continue into the future on the extreme right , for no better reason than that this is where these traditions have existed and where they presently continue to exist . |
3 | Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side . |
4 | For each change in the value of the MMI , Finnerty and Park ( 1987 ) regressed the natural logarithm of S t /S t -1 ; on the immediately preceding natural logarithm of F t /F t -l , where S t is the spot value of the index at time t and F t is the value of the future on the MM.I at time t . |
5 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
6 | It is probably not coincidental that there exists these two areas of human interest , namely , the areas of religion on the one hand and that of the healing power of the mind on the other , where there is a similar absence of that clear-cut knowledge or faith the attainment of which is so sought after . |
7 | At the same time , the conflict between reason and natural religion on the one hand , and faith and authoritative revelation on the other , opened up an area in which theology had to listen to both sides , to learn from both , and to attempt to find its own way without necessarily falling into either of the sharply polarised alternatives . |
8 | At twenty-three he married again , became a Roman Catholic and decided to buckle down to work as best he could and prove by his buildings that ‘ everything grand , edifying and noble in art is the result of feelings produced by the catholic religion on the human mind . ’ |
9 | They were capable of a good turn of speed on the straight stretch between South Croydon and Purley . |
10 | Yet , during all this period , there has been nothing to prevent the applicant from pressing ahead with all speed on the actual construction of the mink farm on Trondra . |
11 | This applies not only to bringing the Springboks up to running speed on the international scene but also , and more crucially , to ensuring that the process of black and white integration stated by the formation of SARFU advances far beyond the fundamentally cosmetic union achieved to date . |
12 | This picture of A1 2558 ‘ Tracery ’ passing Staveley South at speed on the 10.00 Marylebone-Manchester was the very first such working after this type was transferred to the GC in 1930 . |
13 | Sharpe urged the black stallion on , but the footing under the rye was treacherous ; the soil was damp and still held the shape of the plough furrows , and the stallion could not match the Frenchman 's speed on the paved road . |
14 | As a consequence the bid for Distillers was referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission because the combined Guinness/Distillers share of the whisky market was in excess of 35 per cent , which was considered to confer too much market-power on the combined company . |
15 | In those early days , its isolation on the distant north-west coast seemed to make it unattainable by anyone who had only feet to get him there and whose opportunities were restricted by a busy working life south of the Border , although later I was to discover that a MacBrayne 's bus made the forty-six-mile journey to and from Lairg every weekday . |
16 | All sections have been expanded with particular emphasis on paediatric AIDS , oral manifestations , and the effect of AIDS on the central nervous system . |
17 | All sections have been expanded with particular emphasis on paediatric AIDS , oral manifestations , and the effect of AIDS on the central nervous system . |
18 | There 's an interesting historical paradox in the impact of AIDS on the gay community because without the existence of an international gay community I do n't think AIDS as a disease could have had the rapid impact it 's had on gay men . |
19 | ’ Taking its title from this sober standard phrase of the modern obituary column , Norman Rene 's film is an attempt to assess the impact of AIDS on the gay community and at the same time to celebrate the very strong sense of pride and resolve which the disease has paradoxically fostered . |
20 | Under the Mental Health Act 1959 patients maintained on guardianship orders knew that drug treatment could be enforced and therefore appeared regularly for depot injection on the right day and at the right time without pressure or demur . |
21 | Sometimes there is a complete loss of consciousness , particularly , some have claimed , after injection on the left side ( Serafetinides , Hoare and Driver , 1961 ; but see Rosadini and Rossi , 1967 ) . |
22 | But for a committee of aristocratic do-gooders , who are in the business of saving children from violence and abuse , to summarily dismiss a massive cash injection on the flimsy grounds of taste suggests they should n't be in a life-and-death business but rather running their local Girl Guides or church fete toffee-apple stalls . |
23 | The fact that this early lesion is intimal suggests a response to a factor or factors in the blood , and the ‘ response to injury ’ hypothesis is central to current thinking on the atherosclerotic process . |
24 | Aranjuez , however , had clarified Napoleon 's muddled thinking on the Spanish question and he had no intention of using the opportunity it presented in order to support a puppet king whose character and intentions he mistrusted . |
25 | Economic progress helped spur new thinking on the political direction of the EEC , especially as the Commission , under the forceful presidency of Walter Hallstein , had exceeded the expectations of many in terms of the activist role it had pursued . |
26 | The exchange represented the worst of both sides — woolly-minded thinking on the one hand and a blinkered response reducing morality to the level of materialism on the other . |
27 | Current thinking on the general SVQ at level III is that the candidate should select two options from the following : . |
28 | While research on the agronomic side of conservation has taken considerable strides during the past fifteen years for all its problems of misapplication , there have also been some advances in the thinking on the socio-economic side of soil erosion and the resulting design of conservation programmes as well . |
29 | Although some of these analyses have proved abstruse and others untenable , this collective contribution ( which can be only briefly explored here ) has proved vital in re-orientating thinking on the urban problem and its resolution . |
30 | I listened to my feet making a steady rhythm on the paved stones , as regular as a pulse beat . |