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

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1 Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane .
2 For television , in particular , where the text is itself both a theoretical problem ( where does a television text begin and end ? ) , and a banal critical object ( in comparison with the things people do with it ) , it may be inevitable that attention fastens on an ethnography of consumption rather than on the objects of production .
3 With the modals , the effect of representing the support in its place in time ( past or non-past ) as receiving the incidence of the potential event is to evoke actualization as dependent on the conditions of possibility , probability , etc. , expressed by the modal .
4 During the session the demands that the child makes on the parents for help and how they respond to deal with the interruption is useful information .
5 I suspect that part at least of the explanation lies in the pressures which structures of racism exert on the forms of resistance to it .
6 You were asked recently to vote on the forms of action you would prefer to take in support of the shop 's position on the reduction of pay differentials .
7 A few days later he came back , said they gave tactile pleasure to his patients , a little on the lines of worry beads , and off he went with a boxful . ’
8 I gather that this is regarded as a controversial procedure in certain circles , but any criticism on the lines of wastage of resources on a dying man would have me to contend with .
9 As we have seen , he had declined commissions to write further historical or religious dramas on the lines of Murder in the Cathedral : as far as he was concerned , that play was a " dead end " . "
10 The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian .
11 Undergraduate textbooks may be in the library index , but they are seldom on the shelves for borrowing .
12 A period of under-provision over a number of years is likely to be reflected on the shelves in subject gaps or in the poor physical condition of stock .
13 The first relates to the power of the court : in appeal proceedings the court has the power to substitute its decision on the matters in issue for that of the body appealed from .
14 If the authority was under a duty to make a decision on the matters in issue between the parties , this duty will revive when the decision is quashed and it will then be for the authority to make a fresh decision .
15 The answer of course would be for all suppliers to put a ‘ sell-by or ‘ best before date on the boxes of test kits with a specific shelf life .
16 The lack of effect of preincubation with TPA on the responses to forskolin and cholera toxin suggests that the actions of TPA on the responses to histamine , TGLP-1 , and gastric inhibitory polypeptide are not mediated at the catalytic subunit or at the level of the interaction between Gs and the catalytic subunit .
17 This method has been used since , and others have been added to it , including methods based on the effects of Jupiter on the paths of fly-by spacecraft .
18 If the parties ' accountants agree on the figures without recourse to the third accountant their decision is still likely , depending on the words of the expert clause , to have the status of an independent decision : see 9.8.2 and Shorrock Ltd v Meggitt plc [ 1991 ] BCC 471 , discussed in detail at 13.7.7 .
19 Any argument concerning the merits or otherwise of the device must to a great extent be guided by a discussion on the merits/demerits of insider dealing .
20 After World War I ( in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps , stationed in Maidstone ) Freeman increasingly became involved in the eugenics movement , producing a lengthy work on the ills of society , Social Decay and Regeneration , in 1921 .
21 A generalised effect of TPA on receptor-Gs coupling mediated by a phosphorylation of Gs seems an unlikely explanation of the effects of protein kinase C on the actions of histamine and TGLP-1 .
22 He read several papers before the society and his published works include observations on the laws of electricity , the height to which rockets can be fired and the influence which two pendulum clocks , in close proximity , were seen to have on each other .
23 The fact that the Conventions on the laws of war rest upon underlying general principles which must be flexibly interpreted and developed to meet new situations was demonstrated in the trials of the major war criminals after the Second World War .
24 However , the numerous formal international agreements on the laws of war actually say nothing directly on nuclear weapons .
25 What do the various international agreements on the laws of war say which has a bearing on the legality or otherwise of nuclear weapons use ?
26 International Agreements on the Laws of War
27 Of the twenty-five-odd multilateral agreements on the laws of war which are currently in force , many contain either specific provisions , or important statements of general principle , which have potential relevance to the question of nuclear weapons use .
28 From the period between the two World Wars , the main surviving agreement on the laws of war is the 1925 Geneva Protocol on Gas and Bacteriological Warfare .
29 One general point about the international agreements on the laws of war : they have never been very successful in addressing directly either the general issue of bombing from the air , or the particular issue of the use of nuclear weapons .
30 In the forty years since 1945 there have been ten new international agreements on the laws of war , totalling perhaps 100 000 words , yet the words ‘ nuclear weapons ’ do not occur once in them .
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