Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |
| 2 | However , it is known that body mass index on average changes only 0.10 kg/m a year . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State may also prohibit any march in any area , or impose a blanket ban on all marches or a particular category of marches , for a period of 12 months . |
| 4 | No consensus was reached on stricter measures proposed by France , Germany and Ireland , such as a blanket ban on single-hulled tankers and those more than 15 years old ( adopted by the US government in the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Effects of ethanol , acetaldehyde and cholesteryl esters on pancreatic lysosomes |
| 6 | It is unlikely that the effect of cholesteryl esters on pancreatic lysosomes is an artefact related to release of free fatty acids during preparation or incubation of phosphatidylcholine vesicles . |
| 7 | The court heard the use of blow lamps on blocked pipes has been banned . |
| 8 | Thus , without prior agreement , they may not disclose confidential information to their backers as this could damage the business of the company and affect the price which the vendors may be able to obtain for their shares ; they may not be able to vote at board meetings on major issues affecting the company if those issues might adversely affect a possible management buy-out ; and they can not involve any of their colleagues in the buy-out or persuade staff to become involved . |
| 9 | The Darwinian approach , involving reductionist concentration on individual plants and the hazards that they experience , particularly the interference from their neighbours , entered the science of plant ecology in the late nineteen twenties in simple experiments involving mixed populations of two or more species and I have described elsewhere ( Harper , 1967 ) the curious piece of history in which three leading ecologists , Sukatschev in Russia , Clements in the United States and Tansley in Britain , all made simple competition experiments involving deliberately-sown plant populations . |
| 10 | The availability of the 1991 census data on local populations by ethnic origin offers a timely opportunity for ethnicity — like occupational class — to be systematically recorded . |
| 11 | However , the aggregate effect of arbitrage will be to bring the prices of shares and an index future on those shares into some no-arbitrage relationship . |
| 12 | This combination of techniques has also enabled the Ca 2+ signal that permeates NMDA channels on dendritic spines to be detected ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 13 | Due to the wide number of organisations providing this type of assistance Lothian Region Development Authority ( LRDA ) concentrate their direct grant aid on existing businesses wishing to develop , however , I have enclosed a list of the grant funds available from other organisations . |
| 14 | On page 809 of this issue , Woodhead and colleagues report new isotope data on volcanic rocks from seamounts southeast of Pitcairn Island that seem dramatically to confirm this theory . |
| 15 | I was particularly interested to learn that Buck Owens played rhythm guitar on two tracks , Lotta Lovin ’ and Rollin' Danny . |
| 16 | At the same time as shipping packs of frozen fatty beef carcases to West Africa , it spends aid money on improving cattle breeds in Mali and Senegal , on refrigerating abattoirs in Burkina Faso and on fattening cattle in Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 17 | We have contributed to numerous guidance notes on new regulations across a wide range of industrial , service and commercial sections through Steven we have submitted a draft proposal on a directive covering upper limb disorders to the European Commission we 'll be putting further proposals for the establishment of a European work environment fund to assist workplace activity , workplace research on health and safety and environmental issues . |
| 18 | Disease activity must therefore be derived from the degree of abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans . |
| 19 | The only method previously applied to quantify the abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans obtained using either Indium-111 or Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes has been the visual comparison of the intensity of bowel uptake with that of liver , spleen and bone marrow . |
| 20 | But there is one major hurdle to overcome before the pent-up reservoir of top genetic material in Britain can be released to Europe — the export ban on live cattle brought in almost exactly three years ago after the bovine spongiform encephalopathy scare . |
| 21 | There is a large and growing feminist literature in sociology which is much appreciated by women students , including influential and innovative collections stemming from the British Sociological Association 's conferences and study groups on Sexual Divisions ( see , for example , Barker and Allen , 1976a and 1976b ) ; there is the BSA women 's caucus which operates as a forum for women and as a pressure group within the profession ; there is also the work of the BSA Standing Committee on the Equality of the Sexes ; and many of the small number of women in positions of relative power in the profession have been willing to use their influence on behalf of other women . |
| 22 | the difficulty quite frankly is that everybody wants to join the Study Groups on foreign affairs or economic policy and I am not at all sure that electorally these are the two most important . |
| 23 | AT&T reported a first quarter net loss of $5,641m after a $7,020m charge for the accounting change on post-retirement benefits , and a gain of $383 for a tax accounting change , against a profit last time of $883m on turnover up 2.2% at $15,719m . |
| 24 | AT&T Co has reported a first quarter net loss of $5,641m after a $7,020m charge for the accounting change on post-retirement benefits , and a gain of $383 for a tax accounting change , against a profit last time of $883m on turnover up 2.2% at $15,719m . |
| 25 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc expects to report a net loss for full year 1993 after estimated charges of $2,000m related to accounting changes and other restructuring and disposition reserves : the accounting change on future retiree health benefits will reduce first quarter pre-tax profit by $2,600m and first quarter net by $1,600m , and an accounting change on post-employment benefits , such as long-term disability and workers ' compensation , will reduce first quarter net by $151m ; it will also establish reserves that will lower net profit by about $260m — some $210m of this is related to the recent decision to dispose of its property portfolio over the next three to five years , the balance to withdrawal from or restructuring of cable and equipment businesses , and costs following spin-off of the cellular operation ; its Pacific Bell subsidiary will recognise employee benefits liability over 20 years , consistent with a decision by the California Public Utilities Commission . |
| 26 | Ministry officials blamed the crime wave on economic shortages , inter-ethnic tensions ( to which some officials attributed two bombs found on the Moscow metro on April 20 ) , drugs , and the movement by organized crime into the co-operative movement ; increasing unemployment was also blamed . |
| 27 | The informal proletariat does not have the independence that control over means of production and labour power implies and must survive at subsistence level on casual wages . |
| 28 | When the pierced silver colander on three legs was full you could dig your hands into the beans and trickle their cool slipperiness between your fingers . |
| 29 | Recently , biotinylated GST-c-Ab1 fusions have been used to detect protein interactions on Western blots ( 5 ) and a protein that interacts with c-Myc was identified by screening a cDNA library with a radiolabelled GST fusion ( 6 ) . |
| 30 | Research projects on many topics are carried out at the CTVM , overseas , and elsewhere in the Edinburgh area and students and staff present their work at weekly seminars . |