Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A possible committal to prison on account of her long-standing beliefs did not frighten her in the least . |
| 2 | Effect of acute exposure to alcohol on gastrin release |
| 3 | Just as the term ‘ literacy ’ itself turned out to be more precise than in general use , and we were able to pin down the distinction ‘ literate/non-literate ’ to ‘ literacy in classical Greece ’ as opposed to literacy or non-literacy elsewhere , so the grand consequences of the literacy being described can be seen from this passage to hinge on very particular distinctions . |
| 4 | This a direct finish to Centrefold on Raven Crag Langdale ( the one above the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel ) . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the figures given yesterday for expenditure on the national health service , education and transport show our clear commitment to expenditure on those items ? |
| 6 | Viewpoint : Clear approach to policy on trade union law : Michael Meacher , Labour 's employment spokesman , replies to a Viewpoint article by Barrie Clement , Labour Editor , which considered the party 's position on trade union law |
| 7 | After the resignation of John St Luce as Finance Minister on Feb. 22 , the Prime Minister had taken on the Finance portfolio himself and presented the 1991 budget to Parliament on March 7 , giving only an outline of the proposals instead of a detailed budget speech . |
| 8 | There was a limited return to work on May 8 after a broadcast appeal by Conte . |
| 9 | Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . |
| 10 | Located in shopping centres , supermarkets , offices and streets the kiosks , which use touch-sensitive screens and can understand the human voice , will provide instant access to information on almost anything from weather and travel data to goods available in shops . |
| 11 | In 1981 the Flowers Commission published what is still the most comprehensive report to date on the opencast industry . |
| 12 | Their sense of shock stemmed from the timing of the announcement and the sudden exposure to controversy on tour . |
| 13 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 14 | ‘ They jointly commit themselves to Ireland 's national right to self-determination on the whole island . |
| 15 | Implicitly , exit costs exceeded costs of entry , largely due to the sunk costs of contacts , reputation and privileged access to information on market movements ( on the demand side ) and expertise ( on the cost side ) built up over time . |
| 16 | On March 5 two Palestinian teenagers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing a Jewish student to death on a bus in Tel Aviv district on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37928 ] . |
| 17 | The trees remains form a mulsh that can be spread in the garden … and the chips are a useful alternative to concrete on the school 's play area . |
| 18 | The registrar rescinded the automatic reference to arbitration on the grounds that the plaintiff needed legal representation in order to present her case properly and the costs burden on her in an arbitration would therefore be unfair . |
| 19 | The treaty , covering the external aspects of German unification , complemented that signed by the two German states on Aug. 31 [ see p. 37661 ] and removed the last major obstacle to unification on Oct. 3 , 1990 . |
| 20 | The antislavery body also claimed effective access to government on the aspect of anti-slave trade policy which complemented suppression ; after pressure over some years for the British government to reduce discriminatory duties on commercial products from West Africa originating with information by Roscoe , duties on cotton wool , ginger , coffee and palm oil were lessened . |
| 21 | For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared . |
| 22 | If the semi-annual yield to maturity on a bond is 12.38 per cent , what is |
| 23 | But it is only with the chance of full-time work that this group can build up its rights to social insurance benefits , which prevents any further misfortune resulting in an automatic relegation to dependency on means-tested assistance . |
| 24 | In the early days of Everyday Electronics it was often suggested that it was a good idea to double-up on the cheaper components when buying a set of components for a project . |
| 25 | We would wish to stress again , with the district council 's support I suspect , that that overshoot really it 's to sites within the urban area , as in windfall sites in general planning terms we have seen to be acceptable er in planning terms , but we would wish to stress that part part of that approach has been a continuing resistance to development on greenfield sites on the edge of the the urban area . |
| 26 | They were segmented creatures , ancestors of today 's millipedes , pre-adapted by their chitinous armour to movement on land . |
| 27 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 28 | Sampson , of course , has no more claim to authority on pedagogic matters than Chomsky does . |
| 29 | It found that Blecha had instructed officials including the police to slow down the inquiry against Proksch , had suppressed incriminating files and had brought disciplinary measures against officials working on the inquiry , as well as giving incomplete information to parliament on a number of occasions as regards the progress of the inquiry . |
| 30 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |