Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 2 | Still , after such an accolade , their next conquest should surely be a performance on perennial kiddies ' fave , Top Of The Pops . |
| 3 | Still , after such an accolade , their next conquest should surely be a performance on perennial kiddies ' fave , Top Of The Pops . |
| 4 | Many companies are now acting on top executives ' concern over education by forging closer ties with schools through compacts , which link performance at school to job or training opportunities . |
| 5 | As well as authorising German-style universal banking in general , Italy 's version of Europe 's new rules will sweep away restrictions on commercial banks ' ownership of industrial companies . |
| 6 | ‘ That issue a couple of months ago was far too soft on transnational corporations ' involvement with the Latin American military . ’ |
| 7 | The working party 's remit was sufficiently wide-ranging to permit examining almost anything that had a bearing on chartered accountants ' training . |
| 8 | On non-executive directors ' role , commented that ‘ in a unitary board both executive and non-executive directors are responsible for the board decision and the board as a whole is responsible when wrong decisions are made . |
| 9 | Some examples of the use to which the SERRL database has been put are : the examination of the accessibility of small and medium-sized towns to the motorway and trunk road network in promoting population growth , the analysis of the hinterlands of each of the 900 stations on British Railways ' South Eastern Region , and updating the urban/rural boundary lines using remotely-sensed data . |
| 10 | Pembroke Gate is on English Estates ' portion , Chatham Maritime , leaving the Gillingham Gate as the only access to the dock company 's undertaking . |
| 11 | On average workers ' pay in Belorussia had dropped by 1922 to 73.5 per cent of the 1913 level , but in 1923 it was to rise to 112.5 per cent . |
| 12 | Peter Gabriel 's version of ‘ Biko ’ farts on Simple Minds ' version . |
| 13 | The older figures will be selected by prison staff and sent on six-week Samaritans ' training courses under a Home Office scheme , called Listening Prisoners . |
| 14 | Some books were purchased at the divisional library and these were augmented by orders based on individual teachers ' specialist knowledge and individual visits , undertaken on their own initiative to bookshops in various places . |
| 15 | Domestic saturation : At certain times economic stagnation and competition have put pressure on individual banks ' profit margins , thus encouraging them to service effectively their domestic customers ' international needs and seek out foreign markets for profit growth . |
| 16 | Teachers have to note and keep records on individual pupils ' state of knowledge with respect to all the criteria in a scheme . |
| 17 | International economic and political forces place severe constraints on individual governments ' decision-making , particularly if that nation is economically under-developed . |
| 18 | Feminists often rely on male psychologists ' work to solve the psychological problems they encounter . |
| 19 | Legislation on civil servants ' neutrality |
| 20 | But despite the fact that Brown had passed on Privy Councillors ' information , Thomson assured Pincher there was nothing to stop publication . |
| 21 | He welcomed the European Commission on Human Rights ' ruling that the case of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar was good enough to go the European Court . |
| 22 | Ministers had hoped that arguments over the killings would not be re-opened , but maintained they were not embarrassed by the European Commission on Human Rights ' ruling that there was a case to be answered . |
| 23 | There was no taboo on incest , any constraints that did exist on hu on human beings ' mating preferences were dictated by the primal fathers . |
| 24 | The Royal Commission on Legal Services ' treatment of tribunals was lamentably weak ( Benson , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | Attacks on Baltic republics ' border posts by Soviet troops continued during June , although OMON ( the special Interior Ministry troops ) officers on June 26 denied charges of involvement in more than 20 such attacks . |
| 26 | Editor , — N Starey and colleagues ' paper on general practitioners ' involvement in management arrangements for commissioning services in the future raises important issues about the evolution of the purchasing function . |
| 27 | Effect of NHS reforms on general practitioners ' referral patterns |
| 28 | Editor , — In their paper on the effect of the NHS reforms on general practitioners ' referral patterns Angela Coulter and Jean Bradlow state that ‘ the overriding impression is that referral patterns remained strikingly similar among both fundholders and non-fundholders . ’ |
| 29 | It can be worthwhile to look through trade magazines and check on various companies ' success in placing their songs with artists . |
| 30 | The information collected will cover changes in employment since receipt of the grant , recipients ' views on the importance of the scheme , and further evidence on small firms ' awareness of the various alternative sources of financial assistance . |