Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Atlantic Agreement called " upon the Seamen of all the world for service … to demonstrate practical appreciation of freedom won " , and the American Shipping Act of 1915 had established for seamen on foreign ships a " a right to quit " while in US ports from March 1916 . |
| 2 | Advice through notes on past events available and Pat Palmer , who teachers at this school is willing to liaise if required . |
| 3 | While there is an exact no-arbitrage price for futures on geometric indices , it requires the calculation of y , and this may be difficult and may cause the arbitrage to be risky . |
| 4 | I would have thought that it is the DoT 's responsibility to make some provision for cyclists on main routes like this . |
| 5 | The union works for musicians on two levels : supporting the individual member , and providing a protective umbrella for all musicians , whether or not they are MU members . |
| 6 | and that maybe something your Lordship may wish to consider , I 'm a little bit baffled as to why my learned friend has gone for cases on interim measures , we 're not seeking interim relief , we have n't sorted interim injunction , erm to suspend the validity of any particular measure that was the basis of all of his case |
| 7 | The Sinhalese were however generally unwilling to work as labourers on large estates . |
| 8 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 9 | The Soviet Defence Minister , Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , had visited Germany on Nov. 11-13 for discussions on bilateral issues , including in particular the withdrawal of Soviet troops from German soil , and on the rapidly changing security situation in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The aid conference included five specialized working groups for discussions on specific issues : food aid , energy , medicines , housing for returning military personnel and technical assistance . |
| 11 | A National Integration Council would be set up as a forum for discussions on these issues . |
| 12 | Clad in a coat which was so stiff with gold wire and seed pearls that he could scarcely bend his arms he rode with his escort beneath a line of arches which were suspended on ropes between houses on opposite sides of one of the main streets . |
| 13 | READER Patrick Stubbs is a Green supporter and he has written this week about policies on key issues . |
| 14 | The old system — by which banks only reported accounts which received more than £500 per annum interest — was scrapped in return for the abolition of composite rate tax , enabling gross interest payments for savers on low incomes . |
| 15 | Tell me a story , my little brother used to clamour , tell me a story about knights on white chargers and damsels in distress . |
| 16 | Durham City Council is to seek planning permission for homes on three acres of land near West Lea , Witton Gilbert . |
| 17 | It will provide interworking between databases on these systems and the MD110 's telephony functions . |
| 18 | They may not have information about users ' success ( or lack of it ) in searching for particular books , or for books on particular subjects , or the extent to which users locate substitutes for their original choices , or the extent to which users browse or take up materials on impulse , or the manner in which impulse choices are taken up . |
| 19 | Although far from satisfactory , this is the best estimate available for perturbations on these scales . |
| 20 | In February 1989 university authorities suspended classes for three days after clashes on several campuses between Islamic and leftist student groups . |
| 21 | The wooden machinery is driven by an undershot waterwheel , and is operated for visitors on some afternoons in summer , producing wholewheat flour by the traditional method between two pairs of millstones . |
| 22 | Organised crime is running wild since the collapse of Eastern Europe 's borders allowed communist gangs , incubating for decades on meagre pickings , to burst their bounds . |
| 23 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 24 | If an inner-city supplies free art galleries , financed out of taxes on inner-city inhabitants , the rich still come in from the suburbs to make use of these facilities . |
| 25 | Both of these issues have a prominent part to play in assessing the impact of taxes on different groups . |
| 26 | The main points were ( i ) a tax of 0.3 per cent on financial transactions ( ITMF ) , in force until 1994 , but not applying to wage cheques , pension payments and popular savings accounts ; ( ii ) to fight tax evasion an instruction to banks to report in specific cases and at the Finance Minister 's request all movements of individuals ' and companies ' accounts ; ( iii ) the simplification of the tax system with the elimination of three social contributions and their replacement by valued added tax ( VAT ) of between 7 and 10 per cent ; ( iv ) the elimination of taxes on manufactured products , fuel sales and additional income , and their replacement by a selective tax ( the rate of which had yet to be specified ) on cars , alcoholic drinks , fuels , electricity and telecommunications ; ( v ) the elimination of the separate collection of taxes by state and municipal governments and another by municipal government , so that all taxes ( except the ITMF ) would be collected by the federal government and shared with the states and municipalities , expected to produce a real increase in their revenues of 9 and 17 per cent respectively ; and ( vi ) a ban on the contracting of fresh debts by the Federal District , states and the municipalities until the year 2000 . |
| 27 | There are , however , examples of lions on British vessels . |
| 28 | The frequency of coligation events during the cloning procedure is also important because it is much easier to interpret the results of hybridisations on unfragmented clones . |
| 29 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 30 | Rapoport , Fogarty and Rapoport ( 1982 ) have edited a collection of essays on various aspects of family life . |