Example sentences of "[noun prp] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the papers by R. Derby and H.J. Kleintjes on acetylenic glycols serving as surfactants in emulsion and dispersion paints which minimise the water-sensitivity of the final coatings ; the paper by P.J. Moles on zirconium derivatives as cross-linking agents ; and the papers on urethane-polymeric thickeners and ionomer dispersions by J.H. Bieleman and by W.D . |
| 2 | He began to redesign and embellish Strawberry Hill on Gothic lines in the 1750s . |
| 3 | Havel visited Moscow on Feb. 26-27 , holding talks with President Gorbachev on bilateral relations and developments in Europe , including the unification of the two German states ( on which the two leaders were reported to hold a very close position ) . |
| 4 | Decisions will be made in Brussels on social matters whatever happens and I am not convinced that those decisions would be affected by any new form of regional government . |
| 5 | Here , he would have heard of poor Mansfield 's terrible death following a naphtha fire in a derelict building in St Pancras , as well as of G. F. Wilson 's new processes for producing cheap glycerin soaps and ( Price 's patents ) candles from low-grade fats , and of Abel and Spiller 's progress at Woolwich Arsenal on organo-nitrate explosives . |
| 6 | JOE HYAM On unhealthy obsessions with diet |
| 7 | GTE Corp signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Lynch Corp for the sale of its telephone service area in Kansas on undisclosed terms : GTE put 2,300 access lines in Kansas up for sale in January , where it has three employees serving 13 exchanges in the state ; after the purchase , Lynch will have 10,750 access lines in five states . |
| 8 | NEC Corp is now such a star in workstations in the Japanese market that Sanyo Electric Corp , which had developed its own Icon workstations around the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series RISC , has decided instead to work with NEC on MIPS-based workstations and buy the resulting products in OEM , the Nikkei Industrial Daily reports . |
| 9 | Ken , however , was more than once seen to go into his bed and fall fast asleep — undoubtedly the pressure of working in the theatre at night and recording Beyond Our Ken on other mornings proved too much and was reminiscent of another time when he fell asleep . |
| 10 | This said , I have recorded Poppea on original instruments for Virgin and enjoyed it immensely . ’ |
| 11 | It has been observed that Christian fortresses in Syria on numerous occasions failed to act as any sort of check on the movement of Muslim armies . |
| 12 | The Donation also claimed that the Emperor Constantine on ceremonial occasions had performed the office of strator ( leading the horse ) and strepa ( holding the stirrup ) for the pope , signifying an almost feudal servility . |
| 13 | There followed regular contact between student and professor and more published work by Nietzsche on Greek subjects : besides reviews , there were articles on the lyric poet Simonides , the historian of philosophy Diogenes Laertius and the anonymous quasi-biographical piece known as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod . |
| 14 | Silicon Graphics will buy a 15% equity stake in Tata Elxsi on undisclosed terms and will license it to manufacture more of its RISC-based servers and graphics workstations in India . |
| 15 | Tickets for Olds Scumford on New Years day are on sale only to those people who went to the Sunderland away game . |
| 16 | On May 23 , the USA signed a protocol with Russia , Ukraine , Byelarus and Kazakhstan on strategic arms reduction , adjusting the original USA-Soviet Union treaty [ see pp. 38890 ; 38320 ] to accommodate redistribution of nuclear weapons among the four republics . |
| 17 | He was undoubtedly a pioneer in his specifications for county maps and initiated the eighteenth-century remapping of England on large scales . |
| 18 | Some of these locomotives took part in the railway ‘ race ’ from London to Aberdeen in 1895 , when there was keen competition between the west and east coast routes for Anglo-Scottish passenger traffic , and averaged well over 60 m.p.h. from Carlisle to Aberdeen on severe gradients . |
| 19 | The Accounting Standards Board ( ASB ) has published for comment an exposure draft of the Foreword to UITF Abstracts explaining the authority , scope and application of the Urgent Issues Task Force ( UITF ) abstracts issued by the ASB which set out the consensus reached by the UITF on particular issues . |
| 20 | The second meeting of the Joint Nuclear Control Committee ( JNCC ) , set up in February to facilitate separate bilateral negotiations with South Korea on nuclear inspections [ see p. 38819 ] was held on April 1 but ended in stalemate . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman is obviously unaware of the substantial investment in the research and development programme in Scotland on renewable energies . |
| 22 | Since he also believed , after the meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 , that Austria would take a lead from Russia on Ottoman affairs , he began to feel that he had a mandate for resolute action when the " eastern question " next arose . |
| 23 | Ukraine , at loggerheads with Russia on military issues , insists that the accord must be turned into a multilateral one and that Russia is not in a position to ratify it on behalf of the other republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 24 | The court was told O'Connor had resigned from the force in December on medical grounds . |
| 25 | The school had an excellent library , especially in the English section , and I would find myself immersed in the literary essays of T. S. Eliot , I. A. Richards , W. K. Wimsatt , Bradley or Dover Wilson , Maud Bodkin on archetypal patterns or Caroline Spurgeon on Shakespeare 's imagery . |
| 26 | Primarily ET , as realized on-screen , was the creation of Carlo Rambaldi , an Italian sculptor and inventor ( his own self-description ) , who had formerly worked with Spielberg on Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ) and with Ridley Scott on Alien ( 1979 ) . |
| 27 | The B-side features a beautifully tortured live acoustic ‘ Quest ’ and an irreverent rattle through Gram Parsons ' and Chris Ethridge 's ‘ Hot Burrito £2 ’ with Matt Dillon on backing vocals . |
| 28 | Interestingly , RNA polymerase-promoter complexes formed at these promoters in the absence of the initiating NTPs on supercoiled templates were resistant to heparin challenge ( Figure 3 ) , indicating that DNA supercoiling could stabilize open complexes at both P A2b and P A3 promoters . |
| 29 | Erich Honecker , the former East German leader given refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow in December , sought permission to travel to relatives in Chile on compassionate grounds , claiming that the condition of his health was such that he might not live much longer . |
| 30 | He was extremely good-looking , and extremely charming , generous to his scout , and to Mr Bullins on numerous occasions . |