Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commodities produced in the new international division of labour are , above all , to be exported and imported either by trade between merchants on the world market or by transfer ( as semi-finished parts of finished articles ) from one branch of a multinational corporation to another branch . |
| 2 | Martikainen and Puttonen ( 1992 ) examined the correlations between returns on the stock markets of the UK , USA and the world ( the FT Actuaries World index ) , and returns on the Finnish FOX index and FOX index futures . |
| 3 | The French government has agreed to act as guarantor on the insurance of loan collections of works of art worth over FFr300 million ( £31.5 million ; $63 million ) in toto , brought into the country for temporary exhibitions organised by ‘ national public establishments ’ , but not local authorities . |
| 4 | Analysts were agreed that the US government , at a time of economic crisis in Cuba , was determined to maintain the pressure on President Fidel Castro Ruz by refusing to allow travel to the USA to be become a safety valve for discontent on the island . |
| 5 | He 's a good sort and the relaxed atmosphere within his race transporter makes it a favoured social gathering point for Germans on the GP circuit . |
| 6 | He argues that ‘ points of light ’ provide a middle way between reliance on the welfare state and the belief that economic growth alone can cure deep poverty . |
| 7 | For info on the whole Trace Acoustic range , contact . |
| 8 | Just before the gate the path turns right , between woodland on the left and a hedge on the right . |
| 9 | No , I 'm going to fill in for Jim on the Canal project . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 11 | And , certainly , it was difficult to find any substantial difference in approach between authorities on the basis of party political control . |
| 12 | The grant was to be distributed between authorities on the basis of a set of detailed standard expenditure figures , set by central government for each service after discussion with local authorities on the consultative council . |
| 13 | Mr Wawryk will be responsible for building on the channel 's current base of more than 110,000 hotel rooms and for increasing the number of households able to receive MTV Europe . |
| 14 | You will commonly , of course , advise your client of any facts of interest , which you have discovered by your enquiries ; for example , that the road has not yet been taken over by the local authority , that plans for building on the property were submitted to and rejected by the local authority , etc . |
| 15 | ‘ What about opportunity on the day Mr Goodhaven fell through the floor ? ’ |
| 16 | On his return to Addis Ababa my father was increasingly concerned by an evident predilection for Islam on the part of Lij Yasu , who was consorting more and more with the Muslims of his empire , and frequenting mosques . |
| 17 | The most recent , from the Institute of Directors , firmly opposed ’ any system of levy or tax that discriminates between employers on the basis of assumptions about what a firm spends on training ’ . |
| 18 | While thirteen out of twenty middle-class women ( sixty-five per cent ) ‘ mind ’ describing themselves as housewives on a form , only eight out of twenty working-class women ( forty per cent ) state this objection . |
| 19 | Bags — Ideal for musicians on the move , Yamaha 's new instrument bags are designed to protect a number of Yamaha hitech instruments . |
| 20 | The seventh part of his third Ennead ( ‘ On Time and Eternity ’ ) can be regarded as meditation on the passage in Plato 's Timaeus ( 37–8 ) where time and the creation of the world are discussed . |
| 21 | Perhaps such abbreviations of thought are inevitable in the limited space available for text on a display label . |
| 22 | Although these are hardly the dominant features of international law at present , on this paradigm international law could control force by having courts to make decisions about conflicts of interest between states on the basis of authoritative rules and impartial and effective procedures for the accurate and fair application of these rules to specific circumstances . |
| 23 | For cases on the meaning of this expression see paragraphs 10–18 , 16–04 , 16–07 and 20–04 . |
| 24 | ‘ You wo n't get the AA to come for hours on a day like this . ’ |
| 25 | I have found a comfortable position that could last for hours on the sofa in my front room . |
| 26 | On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again . |
| 27 | Sometimes our teenagers talk to their boyfriends and girlfriends for hours on the phone . |
| 28 | We have a specialist eye unit but also the specialists work very closely with the plastic surgeons and we 're a major regional centre for operations on the head and neck |
| 29 | Normal inkjets use heat to form a bubble of ink which is expelled through nozzles on the printhead . |
| 30 | Effect of histamine with/without cimetidine on the growth of MKN45G xenografts |