Example sentences of "on [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire . |
| 2 | The statements suggest that annual reports of plcs and large private companies should include a statement about directors ' responsibilities , acknowledging the role directors ' play in the preparation of the financial statements , and their responsibilities for the decision on whether a going concern basis is appropriate , and for ensuring that adequate financial controls are in place . |
| 3 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) The adequacy of pension funding Whether or not an insurer will wish to exclude warranties relating to funding adequacy will depend on whether a recent valuation is available from the managers of the fund and whether the vendor can claim against the valuation if the funding is shown subsequently to be inadequate . |
| 5 | Even for the much more limited requirement of a qualification based purely on whether a significant proportion of the likely distribution of outcomes gives a negative net worth , there must be some implicit formulation of a distribution and a cut-off percentage . |
| 6 | The Environmental Protection Agency plans to reach a decision by early 1991 on whether a national ban on Carbofuran is to be imposed . |
| 7 | Evaluations of Soviet society inevitably focus on whether a ruling group that does not own , but controls , property , receiving a salary rather than extracting surplus for its own use , can legitimately be called a ruling class in a Marxist sense in which class depends on the ownership of the means of production and the extraction of surplus from an exploited class . |
| 8 | Barr responded on Oct. 16 by announcing the appointment of retired federal judge Frederick B. Lacey , 72 , to make a preliminary investigation of the conduct of the Justice Department and report back — within the 30-day period within which Barr was legally obliged to make a formal reply to the request of the House — on whether a special prosecutor should be appointed . |
| 9 | His main powers concern external relations , defence and , perhaps most significantly for a supporter of the death penalty , the ultimate say on whether a condemned man will hang . |