Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are asking SEAC to take these into account in advising us in due course on the Orders specifying assessment arrangements covering English . |
| 2 | Some specific grant on the judges lodgings , the maintenance of that , payable by the Lord Chancellors Department , and so- some specific grant on emergency planning . |
| 3 | The next item , specific grants , deals in in main part with specific grant on the police pensions er , element . |
| 4 | This is a very attractive Queen Anne building , situated in a quiet private lane on the outskirts of the pretty village of Pulborough . |
| 5 | ‘ This was , of course , the true England of the industrial provinces , of blood-black brick and scurrying wind and workers ’ faces clenched tight against the adversity of short-time working and the memory of last month 's narrow miss on the pools . ’ |
| 6 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 7 | He had a pleasant apartment on the outskirts of Moscow with his young wife and baby daughter , and hoped to achieve a small dacha . |
| 8 | In 640 x 480 VGA , these appear as Sage intended them , but on my 1024x768 SVGA display ( the emerging standard ) something has gone awry with screen fonts , the first indication of which is the fact that the descriptive text on the buttons overwrites the icons slightly . |
| 9 | In 1982 , the British Library commissioned a study of ‘ information demand and supply in British industry ’ and following the completion and publication of this report , BL commissioned a further study of the prospective impact of technical change on the demands for information services . |
| 10 | She discovered the dirt and thickened wax deep in his ears , the grubbiness at the back of his neck , the hoof-like skin on the soles of his feet , the bitten nails . |
| 11 | He 'd used an Armalite semi-auto on the creatures as they stampeded from crag to crag . |
| 12 | I 'm home again , and there 's no mocking echo on the words . |
| 13 | Evan Roberts noticed them , and as I touched them , felt their cool cleanliness and the slight resilient weight on the backs of my fingers . |
| 14 | The tour of the exhibition will provide an opportunity to talk with major producers on the latest developments in roofing materials , and there will be a technical briefing on the implications for specifiers of the introduction of CEN standards , the Construction Products Directive , quality assurance and guarantees . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it can have a far-reaching effect on the lives of those identified as known or suspected abusers . |
| 16 | In the north-east , we also saw on our televisions a gentleman — if one can call him that — being interviewed after the death of his son in a 90-mph crash involving a stolen car on the outskirts of Newcastle . |
| 17 | Liberia 's Bar Association opposed the proposed formation of a new interim administration on the grounds that none of the parties to the Banjul agreement had the authority to form one . |
| 18 | Under the Labour party 's proposal , that property would be revalued , which would have a devastating effect on the finances of that young couple . |
| 19 | One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs . |
| 20 | Here Corbett began to question any respectable citizen on the whereabouts of the Lord Bruce 's household and described to Ranulf the insignia of Bruce 's retinue in the hope that his sharp-eyed servant might discover someone wearing this livery . |
| 21 | In the immediate future , we will be issuing guidance on the ways in which the new-style HNCs and HNDs are to be reviewed — this guidance is necessary because some of the pilot courses and Batch 1 courses will soon reach the end of their period of validation . |
| 22 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 23 | Mel Thompson ( chapter 9 ) goes some way towards rescuing the term , arguing that whilst the trumpeting of particular forms of entrepreneurial success is dangerous because it can be used to locate the blame for economic distress on the victims of economic disruptions , it is equally worthwhile not disparaging a broad set of practices that qualify under a more conventional definition of this term . |
| 24 | The very use of the term ‘ state ’ immediately suggests a broader focus than the often narrow concentration on the institutions and personnel of local government which had hitherto informed local political research . |
| 25 | Yet such as it is , what I have witnessed has been enough to throw a strong light on the materials I have used , and , for me , has made the dry bones live . |
| 26 | I have to say because erm but you 'll get technical feedback on the areas you 've got wrong . |
| 27 | Each song is a well crafted pastiche on the styles of the day and all are peppered with subtle and clever nuances to evoke memories of pubescent frustration . |
| 28 | Which minister stopped councils supplying free milk on the rates ? |
| 29 | In reality , the guardians of authority collude in the maintenance of the territory once it has been colonized , and as a result enter into the social framework on the terraces . |
| 30 | SUE BELGROVE had to tackle a wilderness when she married a farmer and moved into his 350-year-old cottage on the borders of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |