Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil servants sit as non-executive directors on some firms ' boards . |
| 2 | Because of its far-reaching effects on individual women 's lives , however , it is difficult not to see it as , on the contrary , a potent example of the weakness of an orthodox relativist view — a view , that is , which attempts , incoherently , to maintain the equal validity of all moral perspectives . |
| 3 | Officials from the Union of Communication Workers say first deliveries on absent postmen 's rounds may be ignored until colleagues can split the workload on second deliveries . |
| 4 | Some examples of the use to which the SERRL database has been put are : the examination of the accessibility of small and medium-sized towns to the motorway and trunk road network in promoting population growth , the analysis of the hinterlands of each of the 900 stations on British Railways ' South Eastern Region , and updating the urban/rural boundary lines using remotely-sensed data . |
| 5 | Attacks on Baltic republics ' border posts by Soviet troops continued during June , although OMON ( the special Interior Ministry troops ) officers on June 26 denied charges of involvement in more than 20 such attacks . |
| 6 | Our ongoing successes with and the acquired rights directive will eventually put a halt to the attacks on public workers ' rights . |
| 7 | They seemed to have a show every week or , if not , were invariably guests on other comedians ' shows or the light relief on those interminable chat shows . |
| 8 | Effect of NHS reforms on general practitioners ' referral patterns |
| 9 | This paper is concerned with the effects of the reforms on general practitioners ' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics . |
| 10 | Editor , — In their paper on the effect of the NHS reforms on general practitioners ' referral patterns Angela Coulter and Jean Bradlow state that ‘ the overriding impression is that referral patterns remained strikingly similar among both fundholders and non-fundholders . ’ |
| 11 | Advanced Computer Research — ACRI — and Cray will also collaborate to convert and optimise applications codes on both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 12 | She sat over her sewing , complaining that her eyes were getting old , and the yellow wax from the candle , skewered and hung up above their heads on a thread , dripped on the backs of her hands and made marks like the stains on old women 's hands . |
| 13 | The accused , an accountant , forged 10 cheques on two companies ' bank accounts . |
| 14 | For example there are people who are developing new plastics on industrial contracts erm within a department with our school . |
| 15 | So , if there are no questions or comments on those paragraphs erm we move to the other resolutions . |
| 16 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 17 | It was here they learnt to trade rides on their ponies for rides on other children 's bikes . |
| 18 | Conferred temporary and somewhat metaphysical diplomatic immunity by the embrace , the would-be emigrant and the diplomat walked , with their arms on each others ' shoulders , into the embassy . |
| 19 | International economic and political forces place severe constraints on individual governments ' decision-making , particularly if that nation is economically under-developed . |
| 20 | An inn-keeper like H. Goble of Petworth was worth £561 when his will was proved in 1670 ; the local glover , N. Warner , died in 1645 worth £1539 , most of which was held in mortgages on other men 's property . |
| 21 | Initial offerings will be standards-based , integrated hardware and software systems on multiple vendors ' machines that will be prototyped in IBM labs at the site . |
| 22 | Teachers have to note and keep records on individual pupils ' state of knowledge with respect to all the criteria in a scheme . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , during the 1900s , John Burns , the President of the Local Government Board and of the Conference on Infant Mortality , continued to call for legal restrictions on married women 's work . |
| 24 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 25 | A number of countries retain withholding taxes , such as the UK and Belgium ; issuance queues remain in a number of markets , as do limits on the extent to which certain types of borrowers can make euroissues , constraints on use of such funds and restrictions on institutional investors ' freedom to acquire foreign securities . |
| 26 | As well as authorising German-style universal banking in general , Italy 's version of Europe 's new rules will sweep away restrictions on commercial banks ' ownership of industrial companies . |
| 27 | Accountants ' reports on unincorporated businesses ' accounts are currently referred to as ‘ audit reports ’ by many , including many banks and other lenders . |
| 28 | The defendants , a mail order firm , issued an advertisement offering their louvre doors on 14 days ' free approval and indicating the price and the carriage charge . |