Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has strong opinions on several subjects , including politics , but not all for public consumption |
| 2 | The principal concern for companies is first that they should be kept in touch with prevailing opinions on environmental issues that could affect them ; second , that any misconceptions on technical or other matters should be corrected . |
| 3 | But , on the other hand , this perspective produces global strategies which have little purchase on concrete instances , and tend to assume instead the burden of a messianic project in which the enemy is supposedly being smashed , crushed , or stamped out for ever . |
| 4 | There is a large and technical economic literature on these issues which I can only summarise here , suggesting where interested readers can continue . |
| 5 | This prospect appeared to recede after the Washington talks , however , as both sides reported little progress on outstanding issues , particularly on the provisions dealing with air- and sea-launched long-range missiles , with the Soviet side still seeking a treaty to cover air-launched cruise missiles carried by tactical fighters as well as by heavy bombers . |
| 6 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 7 | Indeed , so strong have the differential views on advantageous locations become that one recent assessment of the total stock of foreign capital in developing countries suggests that it is less today than it was in 1900 , measured in relation to GNP ( Maddison , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | The US embassy in London on 7 January 1950 offered a strong defence on similar lines . |
| 9 | It is our prayer that the prevailing progress on human rights will be sustained . |
| 10 | BRITAIN looks set to scupper a European ban on cosmetic firms testing their products on animals . |
| 11 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 12 | In contrast , before meeting ASEAN leaders in June 1986 the American Secretary of State , Shultz , stressed the need to maintain a balance of power against Soviet might and asserted that he could see no reason for a partial or regional ban on nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 14 | There are detailed discussions of the conflicting views on such matters as the correlation of fossil forms and the sequence of strata , the seeming implications of the second law of thermodynamics , the role of mutation in speciation , radiometric methods for dating rocks and the age of the Earth . |
| 15 | Since total taxes on financial services bring in over SFr9 billion a year in revenues , politicians are reluctant to vote for change . |
| 16 | They are specifically designed for hanging objects on hard surfaces , and can be driven easily into brick and most types of concrete or hard plaster walls ( including plastered brick or concrete ) , with only a hammer — no drilling is required . |
| 17 | Third , the study will try to trace connections between these two areas of enquiry , to examine influences of personal economic experience on socio-political orientations . |
| 18 | Zeelenberg had considered trekking to California during the winter to train at Kenny Roberts ' ranch , where many other Europeans perfect the crucial art of sliding the rear wheel on mini bikes on purpose-built tracks . |
| 19 | The total ban on all vehicles including cycles will run from 10.30am to 4pm and they stressed disabled drivers who get into the area before 10.30 would be able to stay for three hours before driving out . |
| 20 | In Scotland , Irish imports were banned , and after the Union in 1707 the total ban on European imports extended to Scotland and at the same time free trade between England and Scotland was allowed . |
| 21 | PARISH councillors at Lingdale , East Cleveland , are appealing for the village 's vandalised toilet block to be opened again despite the near total ban on public toilets as part of Langbaurgh District Council 's budget savings . |
| 22 | A total ban on military flights was also accepted . |
| 23 | This declared that the two sides haveagreed to launch more extensive discussions on anti-satellite weapons and other space arms issues . |
| 24 | A model with these capabilities will provide an important means through which systematic investigation of the effects of economic policies on different spheres of economic activity may be conducted . |
| 25 | Under the editorship of Sergei Mikoian ( son of the late politburo member ) it has sponsored and published regular ’ round-table' discussions on salient issues in Latin American studies such as the nature and degree of Latin America 's dependence and the social and political role of the military . |
| 26 | A jury returned not guilty verdicts on two charges against the former deputy council leader over car park deals in Liverpool . |
| 27 | Antiracists have tended to reify the notion of community , and , by focusing for understandable reasons on unitary conceptions of ‘ The black struggle ’ , to marginalize issues of ethnic , class and gender differences in the black communities . |
| 28 | Implicit in this turn was an acknowledgement that the differences between the Left and the Right groups on practical policies were much narrower than the fractional struggle had previously admitted ; a common phenomenon in left-wing politics . |
| 29 | It was painfully clear that , although ‘ right ’ and ‘ left ’ might have approximately equivalent political meanings on opposite sides of the Atlantic , their intellectual meanings were too fragile to survive the ocean passage . |
| 30 | Transaction costs have encouraged firms to expand their own internal capacity in preference to extensive reliance on outside suppliers . |