Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue . |
| 3 | They are a stark contrast to the derelict steelyards of Sheffield , where there 's nothing left but acres of scrap lying on flattened ground , or the old factories , which look either like the workhouse or satanic hangars . |
| 4 | He fears that groups of workers might become the subject of discrimination based on inherited traits . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 6 | The three businesses comprise 60.9%-owned San Diego-based subsidiary GTI Corp , which makes magnetic components for the local area network market ; UK-based Zetex , a specialist analogue semiconductor manufacturer for the data storage market ; and Trend , which has now completely moved out of defence to concentrate on dedicated telecommunications test equipment . |
| 7 | It will also meet with resistance from some of the groups that stand to gain from such policies because of the grip that the ideology of inequality has on British society . |
| 8 | What was the nature of the former parental relationship with the children , and what impact do these former patterns of interaction have on current relationships , especially when children have left home and established their own families ? |
| 9 | The name and address and VAT registration number of the payee must of course appear on all invoices/receipts . |
| 10 | Whether community health councils , and pressure groups such as MIND would be able to persuade individual health authorities to embark on reform programmes would of course depend on local circumstances . |
| 11 | Purists had of course drawn on medical and evolutionary concepts , but always with the proviso that they were subordinate to the dictates of a higher morality . |
| 12 | The Spanish in South America had of course embarked on this course long before the British ; the changes of 1757–63 mark the point at which the British moved on an appreciable scale into the imperial activity of gaining new subjects in the process of expansion . |
| 13 | It is only by balancing up all the factors , getting the degree of difficulty perceived on all sides , that the whole picture becomes clear . |
| 14 | And in the end it would be national government which was expected to sort them out ( TES 1990 ) : Parity of esteem depends on more than assertions about which NCVQ level equals an A Level . |
| 15 | Sometimes there is a uniformity of antagonism based on shared rumour and widespread disrepute . |
| 16 | Of more immediate significance to contemporaries were his observations of fur seals on southern islands , especially South Georgia . |
| 17 | The others had paid a lot of money to go on this guided trip . |
| 18 | The polytechnics , faced with the problem of increasing access or maintaining the level of money spent on each student , had made access their priority . |
| 19 | Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’ |
| 20 | Cuts in the amount of money spent on direct services to patients as opposed to buildings mean that in wards where few staff members care for a large number of patients standards of care fall well below tolerable levels . |
| 21 | New Scientist kept its head in the euphoria and asked whether the sight of technological weapons being used to kill people might not give the public pause for thought about the amounts of money spent on military R&D , the largest consumer of research money and still growing . |
| 22 | Er well there are still , come back to the county , can we now round off on the question of keep losing my crib sheet here the effect what effect if any will the proposed scale of provision have on adjoining areas in West Yorkshire . |
| 23 | The period of time a bill is before Parliament determines how long the window of opportunity to legislate on criminal justice matters remains open . |
| 24 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |
| 25 | He looked servile , Albert said happily to himself — not like a man of command passing on old clothes at all ; more like a foot-man waiting for an end of his master 's good-byes . |
| 26 | A week of action began on 13 June with a mass picket , at which 84 people were arrested and there was large scale police violence . |
| 27 | In the ‘ real process ’ of policy implementation , local authorities may follow a pattern of action drawing on several of the types sketched here . |
| 28 | Again , the relatively popular policy of the privatization of industry fell on stony ground when it was proposed for extension to the electricity supply industry and to water services . |
| 29 | Logically , critical reflection is ‘ higher ’ because it calls for a state of mind reflecting on that learning . |
| 30 | In all three cases studied , Pilkingtons , RX and Ford UK , the dominant marketing and production strategies of the 1970s were predicted on product market stability and the maximization of scale economies through a highly integrated division of labour based on dedicated machinery , de-skilling and direct managerial control . |