Example sentences of "on [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year .
2 The executive council also expressed concern at the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , and asked the Director-General to send a mission of inquiry and to report on the conditions of workers and employers and their associations in that country .
3 Brennan adapted the capital asset pricing model to try to gauge the effects of dividends and taxes on the returns to shareholders : where .
4 In addition , SUCE accepts that 91003 Communication 3 satisfies the English component of the general entrance requirements and has issued , through its Mathematics panel , guidance on the groups of modules which , in appropriate combination , are acceptable for University entrance .
5 They also call for ‘ reasonable limitations ’ on punitive damages , dis-incentives to filing meritless claims , and fewer restrictions on the forms of organisations accountants may operate under .
6 To pinpoint single factors affecting inventories has proved difficult , although Kennedy ( 1986 ) notes that a modified stock-adjustment principle on the lines above helps explain changes in manufacturers ' inventories during much of the 1960s and 1970s .
7 There are little stations threaded on the lines like beads on a rosary ; they stand in the solitude like places of pilgrimage , far from the profane noises of the world ; they are the real chapels dedicated to the silent ceremony of Waiting .
8 Aycliffe coughed , and his glance drifted away to rest unseeingly on the shelves of books as he spoke .
9 Alongside these , the seasonal range of edible flowers is back on the shelves of stores causing great media and customer interest .
10 And so they do , on the shelves of libraries , or in the pages of textbooks .
11 And the more valuable the book the greater the ultimate scandal , for it will probably end up on the shelves of libraries in other parts of the world where the literary culture of England is still prized .
12 Coloured streamers , toilet paper , telephone book pages , shredded paper and confetti rained on the players from skyscrapers , while building site workers clambered off scaffolding and others out of office windows to cheer Farr-Jones and his players .
13 Use it on the boxes with labels as well , oh it 's not bad , it 's not bad , have got a shiny finish .
14 The development of the rural environment is critically dependant on the responses of farmers to both market and policy signals .
15 The vast majority of empirical investigation in the area of textuality has been psychological in orientation and based on the responses of readers .
16 In each case we may trace from them important effects on learning in schools today on the curriculum plans , on policy and programmes for teacher training and , most significant , on the attitudes of teachers themselves and of those who train them .
17 The final effect of the First World War was less tangible , the impact of war on the attitudes of Unionists themselves , but there is no doubt that the holocaust did leave lasting effects .
18 This study is designed to gather information on the attitudes of Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords on the main principles which should underline welfare policy .
19 The views of people with learning difficulties have been documented for the past 15 years , so this is not new territory — though sections on the attitudes of parents and staff throw light on neglected issues .
20 This power imbalance is likely to have a marked effect on the attitudes of elders to sharing information about themselves .
21 All the mural fountains were built on the boundaries of properties belonging to the Pease family .
22 In each case , the surviving field monuments are seen as only part of the original picture , with ‘ obvious ’ sites such as barrows probably occurring on the boundaries of territories attached to particular communities .
23 Since curvature occurs only on the boundaries of regions I , II and III , the differently shaped boundaries of these regions have to be identified artificially .
24 Some of these sanctuaries appear to lie on the boundaries between civitates , an indicator that they almost certainly date back to the Iron Age and marked tribal limits .
25 OS Map : Sheet 10 Strathnaver Stalking season : Usually Sept and Oct for deer and it is unwise to venture on the hills during shoots .
26 Similar analyses indicating new ordering principles have been carried out on the gardens of aristocrats ( e.g. Leone 1984 ) , furnishings , the disposal of rubbish and forms of cutlery ( Deetz 1977 ) .
27 This bristling empire built on the bones of peasants and political prisoners and denying the most fundamental rights to the workers themselves seemed more and more a mere mirror image of the capitalist system rejected by western radicals .
28 The community of the shire was based on a network of acquaintance and interests , and probably drew on the contacts of individuals in local government .
29 ‘ The German Gestapo were n't a patch on the Russians in terms of efficiency .
30 It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write .
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