Example sentences of "on [art] [noun pl] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | On the remarks that women 's contributions in the field of business , finance , religion , charity work , etc , were totally ignored , I can only assume Alexandra Wallace overlooked the extensive exhibitions on the work of the Church of Scotland Woman 's Guild , Oxfam in Scotland , Amnesty International and the Scottish Refugee Council ( I could go on ) . |
2 | What actually happens depends to some extent on the strategies that classes pursue and on the unity with which they organise themselves and seize opportunities to strengthen their positions . |
3 | It is a book that focuses on the questions that psychobiologists ask , rather than on the answers that they give to them . |
4 | Briefing sessions should provide advice on the precautions that expatriates may take to reduce health risks . |
5 | A more modest role model is offered in Suzy ( Chapman , 1982 ) which illustrates in a simple way some of the practicalities of coping with poor sight in day-to-day situations on the ways that friends can help . |
6 | Thirdly , there is the issue of how precisely capital charges will impact on the funds that DHAs actually receive . |
7 | She even turned down a government offer of extra clothing coupons on the grounds that hand-me-downs were quite good enough for her refugees . |
8 | He lost no opportunity to use his status as an ideological lever for black causes , eventually refusing to serve in the army on the grounds that blacks had no interest in the Vietnam War . |
9 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
10 | The RSPB applauded the scheme on the grounds that farmers should only benefit from European subsidies if they were prepared to join schemes which protected the countryside . |
11 | Nicaragua unilaterally declared an end to the 19-month ceasefire on Nov. 1 , 1989 , on the grounds that contras were renewing their attacks inside Nicaragua , and that insufficient efforts were being made to disband them . |
12 | The unique Late Permian palaeogeography does not feature in any of the current physical climate models , usually on the grounds that dimensions of unit cells used in sensitivity experiments are too large to include such details , or that the geography is a result of ‘ microclimate ’ influences . |
13 | They excluded parents , often on the grounds that teachers knew best . |
14 | The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population . |
15 | The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population . |
16 | When , however , some women did wish to join the larger societies in the 1870s , the societies found their doctors unwilling to treat women unless they paid higher contributions than men , on the grounds that women were more often sick and would make heavier demands on their services , which thus would be of greater benefit to poorer women . |
17 | Some policy statements , such as the 1974 " Integrated Population Policy " , have argued for women 's integration into the workforce and for increased educational opportunities , on the grounds that women 's status is positively correlated with a reduction in fertility . |
18 | They argued for birth control primarily on the grounds that it would improve the health of the mother rather than on the grounds that women had the right to control their fertility . |
19 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
20 | One might try to construct formal models in which the phrases of ( 15 ) and others receive distinct representations , on the grounds that differences do exist in the types of situation which the phrases correspond to , and indeed such attempts have been made ( cf. for example Kamp , 1975 ) ; but this is quite a different matter from trying to model the syntax by which the phrases are assembled as phrases . |
21 | Catholic nationalists who support or condone the killing of protestant loyalists do so on the grounds that members of the Northern police force and part-time army are either agents of British imperialism or maintaining alien protestant — loyalist power in a part of Ireland . |
22 | In that situation , a person may choose not to contribute to a public facility on the grounds that others will pay enough to cover its finance ( and he can have a ‘ free ride ’ ) . |
23 | Those from medium-sized and larger firms supported the introduction of such a test on the grounds that institutions could and should ‘ look after themselves ’ . |
24 | ( Incidentally , I suspect the risks of abuse would be considerably less if the ‘ pay ’ were fought for and won by a united feminist campaign on the grounds that housewives work and deserve money for that reason , than if it were graciously granted by government in a mood of pronatalist , pro-family , antifeminist zeal to cut the costs of the social services . ) |
25 | The annual seal hunt , which takes place on the pack ice off Greenland and in the Barents Sea , is justified by the Norwegians on the grounds that seals compete with the fishing fleet for fish . |
26 | While copyright cases have been won on the grounds that manuals , and other documents that go with software , have been copied , no one has yet been able to claim copyright on the syntax of a computer language . |
27 | And if the former is subtracted on the grounds that crimes against corporations are dissimilar to crimes for corporations , then just over 1 per cent of the listed material referred to corporate crime . |
28 | Pharmacy was chosen for review because university cuts in the subject , announced by the UGC in 1981 , were made on the grounds that courses were available in the public sector , and because the UGC has recently established a panel on subjects allied in medicine , including pharmacy , with which NAB 's working group can consult and co-ordinate some measure of trans-binary planning . |
29 | In the middle of the nineteenth century , for example , Pope Pius IX forbad the opening of an animal protection office in Rome on the grounds that humans had no duties to animals . |
30 | Some people dispute the use of the phrase ‘ one-parent ’ on the grounds that children have two parents but are being raised by a ‘ lone ’ parent . |