Example sentences of "[adj] on [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are those who put the blame for this on the writings of W.M. Davis , arguing that his all-embracing model of landscape evolution left little for geomorphologists to do besides applying the model successively to new areas . |
| 2 | But traditional catholic moral doctrine would oppose this on the grounds of the legitimacy of the state qua state . |
| 3 | Martin Sinnatt , Club Secretary of the Kennel Club , explained that they object to this on the grounds of potential cruelty — not because indelibly marking a dog would hurt , but because they fear unscrupulous owners would try to remove the mark before dumping an unwanted pet . |
| 4 | Her husband countered this on the grounds of the divorce he had been granted in Reno . |
| 5 | Chancellor Nigel Lawson justified this on the grounds of the alleged identical nature of gains and income and the advantage of removing the incentive to avoidance by eliminating the boundary between them . |
| 6 | The correct equations to use are those of thermoelasticity , although in most cases the use of the equations of elasticity is justifiable on the grounds of simplicity . |
| 7 | Strabo quotes Timagenes only once ( 4.1.13 ) to say that Posidonius was right and Timagenes was wrong on the origins of the aurum tolosanurn , the gold from Tolosa which ruined the career of Caepio . |
| 8 | Law 20 is very clear on the actions of the front row in a scrummage . |
| 9 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 10 | Hygiene was never high on the priorities of Marlowe Street . |
| 11 | As a result , innovation now figures high on the agendas of chief executives across the world , and their concerns are backed up by figures which show a strong correlation , for the US at least , between investment in R&D and long term growth . |
| 12 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 13 | Until 1960 nothing was known of it except a handful of historical references and a poem of 76 hexameter-lines in praise of the church 's founder , Anicia Juliana.The poem , which had been carved in letters 11 centimetres high on the walls of the church itself , was copied in a manuscript of the 10th century and is preserved in full in the Palatine Anthology , a medieval collection of ancient epigrams . |
| 14 | Sergio Benedetti , the Florentine chief restorer at the National Gallery in Dublin , has identified a ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ high on the walls of an Irish religious college as the missing original version ( of some ten or so known ) of ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ by Caravaggio . |
| 15 | We join a wild circle-dance at the feet of the giggling teenaged bride , who — perched on a chair-is hoisted high on the shoulders of her guests and paraded through the crowd . |
| 16 | Huemul turned out to be a small island in lake Nahuel Huapi , high on the slopes of the Patagonian Andes . |
| 17 | An angular unconformity recognised in the Upper Carboniferous on the flanks of the London-Brabant Massif was of particular interest in this respect . |
| 18 | ‘ Many teachers are now suffering from or showing signs of stress-related illnesses so that they wish to take early retirement , some on the grounds of ill-health , or are eager to leave the profession altogether , ’ the Belfast secondary teacher added . |
| 19 | A wide and varied portfolio is on offer , with excellent winter and summer sporting facilities in the mountains of French speaking Switzerland , and some on the shores of Lake Geneva . |
| 20 | The Japanese Wage Structure Survey is one of the most comprehensive sources of data and allows us to shed more light on the realities of the labour market . |
| 21 | Clearly , the equilibrium level of aggregate demand is dependent on the positions of the IS and LM curves . |
| 22 | The various organs of the body do not function in isolation , but are mutually dependent on the activities of each other … |
| 23 | In trying to accomplish these ends , a president is dependent on the services of senior White House staff and the agencies that fall within the Executive Office of the President . |
| 24 | Technical resources from Rentokil 's research and Development division include objective scientific assessment of new methods and materials so that the service staff are not solely dependent on the claims of manufacturers . |
| 25 | He goes there talking about paper sovereignty , when the country 's real sovereignty is increasingly dependent on the actions of our European Community partners . |
| 26 | ( 5 ) Simulations of expected duration The nature of this model and its estimation is such that the elasticities , hazard rates and the expected durations all vary from one individual to another and are dependent on the values of benefits , expected earnings and all extra income receipts in both employment and unemployment . |
| 27 | My view was that most people would prefer a pension that was theirs by right rather than being dependent on the decisions of government . |
| 28 | With the modals , the effect of representing the support in its place in time ( past or non-past ) as receiving the incidence of the potential event is to evoke actualization as dependent on the conditions of possibility , probability , etc. , expressed by the modal . |
| 29 | The peasant caste 's second ranking in the official status hierarchy below the ruling samurai caste , was a formal recognition of the degree to which the economy as a whole was dependent on the products of peasant labour . |
| 30 | In the work of most linguists today , then , speech is not overtly seen as dependent on the rules of written language , while for many the ‘ universalism ’ of some approaches is being closely questioned . |