Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Department of Defence on Jan. 14 issued guidelines which on the whole reflected the policies of allied governments . |
| 2 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
| 3 | It considered that the quotas must be regarded as limitations imposed by the institutions of the European Communities themselves on the right , created by article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 4 | It falls down and cracks you on the head and things like that ! |
| 5 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 6 | Room rates are stored in the computer 's memory and when the cashier enters the room rate code and presses the room rate look-up key ; the terminal locates the rate in its memory , prints it on the folio and updates the totals . |
| 7 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 8 | Selene was a mousy little creature , unlike the radiant Dinah , and with no prospects whatever on the stage . |
| 9 | Theoretical studies and laboratory experiments have indicated that lunar dust could be mobilized by electrical forces which on the Moon could arise from electrically charged particles which impinge on the lunar surface . |
| 10 | But the agreement of the judgment creditor , which follows the recitals , is that she ‘ will not take any proceedings whatever on the judgment , ’ if a certain condition is fulfilled . |
| 11 | It was also one which , in all the circumstances , should have been taken by the hospital authorities themselves on the Monday . |
| 12 | The results of all the foregoing may be a fire or fires which on the arrival of the fire brigade have either developed as could be anticipated in the absence of an automatic extinguishing system or a situation where fire has gained a substantial hold and is being retarded in its growth by a sprinkler system reduced to some degree from its designed effectiveness . |
| 13 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |