Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | HLCAs are paid on woodland included in the farm hectarage and encourages its stocking . |
| 2 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 3 | The three men on board admitted to the smuggling attempt and a fourth man was picked up by the police as the waited in a parked car at the landing place . |
| 4 | In a speech to " non-party personages " in Beijing on Dec. 2 the CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin said that a document on agriculture approved by the plenum covered the following points : ( i ) the achievements of agriculture and rural work in the 1980s and the main tasks for the 1990s ; ( ii ) stabilizing and improving the party 's basic policies for rural work and continuing to deepen rural reforms ; ( iii ) raising the overall agricultural production capability ; ( iv ) carrying on socialist ideological education and strengthening building of spiritual civilization and the legal system in the rural areas ; and ( v ) reinforcing the party 's leadership on rural work . |
| 5 | Hand studied 65 theses on entomology produced within the colleges of the University of London over a five year period . |
| 6 | The final phase of Premadasa 's tour ended on Oct. 11 with talks in Male with Maldivian President Maumoun Abdul Gayoom on progress achieved by the South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation [ see p. 38684 ] . |
| 7 | Most nations ' note issues are now entirely fiduciary , i.e. based on faith placed in the issuing authority . |
| 8 | At the moment museums are only exempt from VAT on income generated from the display of their permanent collections . |
| 9 | In a report prepared by the tax consultants Moret Ernst and Young for the Department of Culture in The Netherlands , proposals have been put forward to lower VAT charges on income generated by the arts from the standard rate of 18.5% to a new lower rate of 6% . |
| 10 | It also remains the case that the Cabinet , as an institution , does not rest on parliamentary authority but rather on practice developed over the centuries . |
| 11 | Representatives of 130 foreign businesses attended a special conference on investment held in the capital , Havana , on June 10 . |
| 12 | Bull is licensed to develop and build products based on IBM technologies such as the RISC architectures and the AIX Unix operating system , as well as the right to develop products based on research generated at the Somerset Design Centre in Austin , Texas , where Apple Computer Inc and Motorola Inc are also partners . |
| 13 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 14 | This reports on research commissioned by the DoE on the relationship between development plans , development control , and appeals , and was carried out by Davies , Edwards , and Rowley . |
| 15 | During 1990/91 the inter-university seminar on Soviet industrialisation will continue to meet regularly five times a year in Birmingham , and work will continue on research associated with the present project , including unemployment in the 1920s , and the politics of industrialisation . |
| 16 | ( d ) The remeasured quantity and rates would be abstracted each week and on completion compared with the breakdown provided by the estimator . |
| 17 | Throughout the 1970s I had been mainly studying black holes , but in 1981 my interest in questions about the origin and fate of the universe was reawakened when I attended a conference on cosmology organized by the Jesuits in the Vatican . |
| 18 | In order to illustrate the effects of taxation , let us suppose that the government imposes a tax on labour employed in the retail sector , so that and become and , respectively . |
| 19 | The present appellants argue that every life prisoner should be informed of the advice on tariff given by the judges to the Secretary of State . |
| 20 | The " further discussion " usually takes the form of a report from the secretary , or from a member of the committee , on action taken since the previous meeting . |
| 21 | It demonstrates the imperative that solid forward progress will depend on action taken across the broad front of endeavour . |
| 22 | Further , in developing this approach Merton laid the ground for later work on crime based on the notion of subculture , the notion that there are certain groups who will be more liable to break the rules of society . |
| 23 | These tendencies have entailed certain structural problems — the market suffers from excess capacity ( see section 5.3 ) , with many eurobond operations unable to make profits on turnover averaged over the interest rate cycle . |
| 24 | This secondary analysis explores further the nature and level of financial awards on divorce made by the Court of Session of Scotland . |
| 25 | It builds on work undertaken by the researcher on the first generation in Leicester , thus providing a basis for intergenerational comparison . |
| 26 | That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work . |
| 27 | Increasingly we are seeing the influence of the positive developments and changes brought about by GCSE on work done in the earlier secondary years . |
| 28 | The processes outlined and the examples used are based on work done in the MISLIP project in Scottish secondary schools but similar work has been done throughout the UK . |
| 29 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 30 | This lavatera ( shrubby mallow ) flowers on wood made in the same season , so cut last year 's branches hard back in spring . |