Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can provide an opportunity for testing opinion on controversial proposals such as the reprocessing of nuclear fuels at Windscale and the designation of Stansted as the site of the third London airport . |
| 2 | Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion . |
| 3 | devising a booklet for teachers comprising supplementary papers on specific topics such as the ILEA ( 1983 ) package on ‘ Effective Learning Skills ’ . |
| 4 | Although comparisons with the latter may be less rigorous linguistically and will not focus directly on specific features such as cohesion and narrative structure , there is none the less some stylistic benefit . |
| 5 | On the contrary , by trying to re-create on specific occasions particular events associated with Osiris thought was concentrated on the present rather than on the past . |
| 6 | Other workshops have been held to evaluate the achievements of the study , and to draw lessons from it to enable a move towards further action on specific issues such as mineral leasing , and strip mining . |
| 7 | On specific issues Catholic moral teaching would give specific guidance . |
| 8 | There continue to be a considerable range of views among the 12 member countries on specific issues likely to be discussed at the summit , however , such as the feasibility of carbon taxes or the level of development aid . |
| 9 | Union representatives reported that members , especially those on lower incomes such as porters , catering staff and domestics , were angered by the letters . |
| 10 | This guide to the season is based on eleven years direct observations of our resorts . |
| 11 | Johnson 's approach represents an advance on classic statements such as , for example , that of Carr-Saunders and Wilson ( 1964 ) ; first , because it is relational ; second , it questions the taken for granted desirability of professionalism and third , it departs from empiricist nominalism . |
| 12 | The placement of a text to the left or right of the network , for example , involves judgements based on textual factors such as the narrative point of view ( Fowler 1986 : 127 – 46 ; Simpson 1990 ) , the presentation of verbalisation ( Leech and Short 1981 : 318 – 51 ) , the degree of non-actualised propositions ( Leech 1981 : 154 – 6 ) , as well as the form in which metaphors are realised , and so on . |
| 13 | Worse , a system that forces on multinational firms similar prices to those faced by unrelated firms misses the point of multinationals : to cut costs by locating their activities more efficiently around the world . |
| 14 | This involved focusing on medium-sized towns one alter another and blitzing them with publicity . |
| 15 | For millions of others on low incomes legal aid will be offered on financial conditions they will be unable to meet . |
| 16 | interest on monetary investments such as deposit accounts or government securities . |
| 17 | In the mid-1920s , IG Farben was basing its product development on scientific research , and concentrating on innovative products such as plastics , solvents , insecticides and resins , rather than on bulk chemicals such as chlorine and soda ash , which were ICI 's staples at the beginning . |
| 18 | When Britain 's chancellor of the exchequer introduced his new tax on mobile telephones last week , he called them ‘ one of the greatest scourges of modern life ’ . |
| 19 | The ILEA Report on Junior Schools 1985 listed factors contributing to ‘ good ’ schools . |
| 20 | Would it not be far better for the Government to end these punitive and ridiculous double tax payments — the Post Office already pays corporation tax — thus allowing it to concentrate on improving the quality of service to customers rather than pursuing abolition of the second delivery in towns and putting restrictions on rural services such as insisting that people have letter boxes at the bottom of their gardens or , in some cases , making people go to village centres for their letters ? |
| 21 | Sitting in a bus next morning , eating pineapple and waiting for the driver , we heard that the survivors were going to walk on fiery coals that night down on the fairground . |
| 22 | Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities . |
| 23 | IBM has its own OLTP CICS software running on MVS and , if reports prove true , will be announcing CICS on AIX-run workstations this week . |
| 24 | Happily , the principal Caithness lochs have not been affected by the tree planters , and visiting anglers will find splendid sport on outstanding waters such as Watten , St John 's and Heilen , all readily available at modest cost . |
| 25 | It would be more attractive and viable in the late twentieth century , therefore , at least from the perspective of the Third World states involved , than the neutralisation regimes imposed on European states such as Switzerland , Belgium and Luxembourg in the last century . |
| 26 | Tim , I 'd like you to report on administrative matters first , to get that out of the way . ’ |
| 27 | The new rules laid greater emphasis on economic factors such as professional qualifications and work skills . |
| 28 | Between 1957 and 1979 he found that on such economic inputs as minimum lending rate , public-sector borrowing requirement , and public spending as a proportion of GDP and on economic outcomes such as inflation , unemployment , and growth , the record showed long-term secular trends , regardless of changes of government . |
| 29 | Although air-raid sirens were often heard in Baghdad during the months that followed , both sides ' air forces tended initially to focus on economic targets such as the oil installations in northern Iraq and the Abadan refinery . |
| 30 | The domestic malt market is becoming far less predictable with increased import competition and continued concentration within the brewing industry following the far-reaching Monopolies and Mergers Commission ruling on tied estates last year . |