Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others believe that Mrs Aquino , by making a political decision on grounds of national security , is transgressing her own leadership principles . |
| 2 | Very little direct information exists for quantifying the impact , if any , of agricultural change on habitats other than moorland and grasslands in upland areas . |
| 3 | He originally studied law , before dropping out to devote himself to film criticism and assistant direction on films . |
| 4 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 5 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 6 | Arguably it provides a very strong constraint on managers to act efficiently , if we may assume they are concerned about their future career path and if they believe that the firm does not systematically assess their performance wrongly . |
| 7 | Under the Pelly Amendment , President Clinton has broad powers to impose penalties , including a total ban on imports . |
| 8 | A : In all honesty , I favour a total ban on Rottweilers , because they 're much too powerful for ordinary people to handle . |
| 9 | Greenpeace are pressuring the EC for a total ban on exports of toxic waste |
| 10 | Environment groups want a total ban on tankers . |
| 11 | For this , Mr Gorbachev will have cause to be grateful , for a 15-month total ban on strikes is dangerous and unworkable nonsense . |
| 12 | One council were looking at enforcing a total ban on dogs in all parks in their area . |
| 13 | Only if there was a total ban on CFCs , halons , methyl chloroform and carbon tetrachloride would ozone depletion decrease . |
| 14 | It should , she thought , by law , be an apple a day , a total ban on sweeties . |
| 15 | After many long hours of negotiations between the key delegations , however , and increasing support among South American and African countries for a total ban on drift-nets , a compromise text was agreed which involved substantial concessions by Japan . |
| 16 | Time for a total ban on drift-nets |
| 17 | A total ban on novels in which the main character is a journalist or a television presenter . |
| 18 | Large pores may collect colouring pigment and look darker , while the horny , dry skin on elbows , knees and backs of heels may also grab the colour . |
| 19 | Inexpensive , non-perfumed creams will relieve dry skin on hands and feet as well as face . |
| 20 | Hair ban : Kuwait is to enforce an Islamic ban on men working as hairdressers for women in beauty parlours . |
| 21 | ‘ People spend a lot of their hard-earned money on holidays , ’ observes sales director Ray Wilkins , ‘ and they need professional service and advice . |
| 22 | He does n't need to squander hard-earned money on flowers . ’ |
| 23 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 24 | We then move on , in Chapter 4 , to examine in detail the various arguments put forward about the likely effects of technical change on workers ' experience of their jobs . |
| 25 | He said he wanted to establish that countries deal with their own waste but he felt it was too early to impose a complete ban on imports . |
| 26 | TREVOR FRANCIS last night called for a complete ban on transfers during the season . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher has been advised that a complete ban on strikes is not a practical proposition and may entail a high degree of political risk . |
| 28 | Three-way play on words |
| 29 | One hears jocular allusions to AIDS in circles which would class themselves sophisticated but from this programme , it is clear that the early theory that AIDS was some kind of divine blight on homosexuals , is already discounted . |
| 30 | His last LP , Tunnel of Love , a touching , low-key meditation on matters of the heart , sidestepped the quandary , but these new LPs find him rather at sea . |