Example sentences of "a [noun] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be a bold argument , since its thrust would be that Morgan is correct as a case on general principles but wrong as a rape decision . |
| 2 | A case on these facts would now be covered by the Motor Insurance Bureau Scheme , whereby motor insurers provide a fund to meet claims against uninsured drivers . |
| 3 | Labour tried and failed to make the election a referendum on these changes . |
| 4 | At the LCY central committee plenum in October Simic also said that the new programme of reform could not be implemented by the LCY , and he called for a referendum on these questions and on the Constitution . |
| 5 | Under the slogan " New Parliament for an Independent Ukraine " , opposition movements and parties , including Rukh and the Congress of National Democratic Forces of Ukraine [ see p. 39060 ] had started a campaign for a 3,000,000-signature petition in favour of a referendum on fresh elections to the Supreme Soviet . |
| 6 | It would preside over a general election scheduled to take place at an unspecified date in the autumn , after a referendum on constitutional reforms on Sept. 4 and local elections on Oct. 16 . |
| 7 | Havel had proposed the ratification of a new constitution , a new law on the holding of a referendum on constitutional issues , a new law on the dissolution of the Federal Assembly , and a new law on the make-up of the federal parliament . |
| 8 | This is somewhat unrealistic because provided the government has a majority in the House of Commons , any parliamentary challenge to such a decision on political grounds would be unlikely to be successful . |
| 9 | In the meantime , to avoid cases like Berry arising , counsel should explicitly request a decision on all points of appeal raised before the Court of Appeal whenever there is a realistic prospect of a prosecution appeal to the House of Lords on any issue . |
| 10 | ‘ We would want to find out more about the circumstances of what happened before we take a decision on future screenings , ’ said company spokesman Richard Frost . |
| 11 | The Reform Alliance announced that on top of the agreed agenda , they wanted congress to make a decision on four issues . |
| 12 | We have to make a decision on those responses just like in a normal network . |
| 13 | These prices for pre-match sales only have been specially approved by the Test and County Cricket Board , who have agreed to a reduction on normal prices . |
| 14 | The fourth year focuses on the development of field and laboratory skills through the medium of group and individual projects , many of the topics for which are developed in a course on Environmental Problems and Issues . |
| 15 | They felt , rightly or not , happier starting a course on level terms with newcomers from the sixth forms , than one in which younger students would have the advantage of an A Level course in the subject . |
| 16 | Older people will be seen to be contributors to the prosperity of others , rather than a drain on national resources , as they are now often , wrongly , depicted . |
| 17 | The bulky results of separating data generation from evaluation decisions have for years been a burden to teaching staff , a drain on institutional resources and a crime against the arboreal environment . |
| 18 | In addition they were perceived to be inefficient , measured in terms of productivity , and also unprofitable , causing a drain on public finances . |
| 19 | The hospital was a building on two floors with a large shady tree outside . |
| 20 | We passed a small public garden with tiny , stunted trees ; through an arch , the road wound upwards to the hotel , perched like a toy on medieval ramparts . |
| 21 | The question of the Selby coalfield has not been seen as a constraint on other forms of development erm peripheral expansion , expansion of villages and so on within the coalfield area . |
| 22 | If the seller then supplies goods or services in response to that order , there is a contract on those terms . |
| 23 | The shop bell rang ; then the door closed with a clatter on two customers , one all of six , the other in the region of four years old . |
| 24 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 25 | But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others . |
| 26 | The visitors reduced the arrears with a try on twenty minutes scored by Colin Vynal and converted by Neil Smith , and right on the interval took the lead with another try , this time from skipper , Simon Grater erm again converted by Neil Smith following a mistake in the Old Boys ' defence . |
| 27 | So with a fight on two fronts , in the market place and the courts , what are Virgin 's chances of success ? |
| 28 | But , in a situation in which an arboreal habitat has led to a reliance on visual cues and a generalized body-structure and postural suppleness , even the correct mating-position may not be obvious and automatic as it is in many other animals . |
| 29 | The pilot work had indicated the need to cater for a lack of development of narrative skills and a reliance on contextual cues which standard experiments only sparsely provide . |
| 30 | She is probably a price-conscious shopper ( nearly everyone claims to be these days ) , but in her shopping this may be reflected in a reliance on branded goods bought at Asda , or private label from the Co-op . |