Example sentences of "on [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its primitive agricultural methods , the peasantry was far from monolithic : above the significant numbers of outright slaves , beggars , and migrant workers , were the peasants on private and church lands suffering various degrees of bondage , military colonists on the frontiers , and peasants on the ‘ black ’ lands whose only obligations were to the State . |
| 2 | Mr Green declined to answer questions on political and privatisation issues , but it is known that he hopes to keep the InterCity brand as a marketing concept to compete with coach companies and airlines , although the Government wants to break up InterCity into separate operators . |
| 3 | If the European Convention on Human Rights is incorporated into our law , political power will relocate itself in the Royal Courts of Justice , and advocates will be deciding the law on abortion , on Sunday trading , on political and tobacco advertising , and the like . |
| 4 | At the meeting , which was dominated by exchanges on the conflict in Nagorny-Karabakh [ see pp. 38827-28 ] , the foreign ministers agreed to hold regular joint discussions on political and security concerns in post-Cold-War Europe , on arms control measures , and on the conversion of arms industries to civilian use . |
| 5 | He expressed confidence that the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) would demobilize their remaining guerrilla forces and that the government would honour pledges on political and security reforms pledges by Oct. 31 , the deadline for compliance with the terms of the January peace treaty which ended the 12-year civil war [ see pp. 38716 ; 38809 ; 38906 ] . |
| 6 | The RCN is able to offer you support , advice and protection on professional and employment issues through its network of stewards and full-time officers . |
| 7 | The present project focuses on parental and health visitor perspectives on health-related child-rearing , on health visiting , and on the preventive child health services . |
| 8 | Thus , in England and Wales in 1971 there were 311,000 students in advanced further education , of whom 204,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including 113,000 on initial teacher training , and 107,000 on part-time courses . |
| 9 | By 1981 , the numbers of students had grown considerably to 377,000 : of these 209,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including only 27,000 on initial teacher training , and 168,000 on part-time courses . |
| 10 | During the year 1981–2 , the numbers of students , especially those on full-time and sandwich courses , showed a marked increase over the previous year , of more than 7 per cent . |
| 11 | For example , in the twelve years between 1969 and 1981 , the number of students on full-time and sandwich courses in Welsh establishments rose from 12,390 to 25,377 , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
| 12 | In general , students who embark on full-time and sandwich courses at degree level are entitled to a mandatory award from their local education authority and can apply to the Student Loans Company for loans . |
| 13 | The department was ‘ determined to avoid sequences of letters that are obscene or insulting ’ , and so put a complete ban on WET and DRY , on PIG and RAT , on FAG and DYK , on FEM and GYP , on ODD and POT , as well of course on SEX and SIN . |
| 14 | In July 1987 , for example , the Soviet Foreign Ministry expressed concern over the new Turkish-American ‘ agreement on economic and defence cooperation ’ which defines the American military presence in that country until 1990 . |
| 15 | By this means , the Government is accompanying its move away from full citizenship on economic and welfare fronts to a curtailment in the political domain . |
| 16 | A protocol was signed amending and updating a 1978 agreement on economic and trade co-operation . |
| 17 | He also suggested that Czechoslovakia , Poland and Hungary should co-operate on economic and disarmament initiatives and on approaches to west European bodies . |
| 18 | Professor Sir Roland Smith , chairman of the Sheffield-based company , said the UK had entered 1993 with lower interest rates and Government policy would appear to be placing greater emphasis on economic and business growth . |
| 19 | By allowing the arbitrary arrest of such people , the Act explicitly recognizes that personal freedom in Britain depends in large measure on economic and material well-being . |
| 20 | In February 1991 Czechoslovak , Hungarian and Polish representatives met in Visegrad , near Budapest , to co-ordinate as a group their negotiations with the European Communities ( EC — see also p. 38 ) and co-operate on economic and security issues . |
| 21 | The seventh international conference on organometallic and coordination chemistry of germanium , tin and lead , will be held at Jurmala , near Riga , Latvia , on 20–25 September 1992 . |
| 22 | Yes , she said he 'd always got the music on loud and sort of full of messing about you know so |
| 23 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 24 | On Oct. 16 the French and German Foreign Ministers published proposals in draft treaty form on foreign and defence policy , which were welcomed by Belgium , Greece , Luxembourg and Spain . |
| 25 | Given Labour 's stormy internal debates on foreign and defence issues since 1951 and despite the recent defeat of the unilateralists on nuclear disarmament , Washington was understandably anxious to gain some advance impressions of Labour 's likely behaviour if it were returned to power . |
| 26 | Referring to the June draft treaty in its aims to build upon the Single European Act by strengthening co-operation on foreign and security policy , he made the point that , as the Gulf conflict had shown , there was a considerable difference between the member states , but that there had been a considerable degree of united action in supporting the new democracies in central and eastern Europe in relation to the Baltic states and in promoting the Prime Minister 's safe havens initiative . |
| 27 | Following the example of the exclusion of the political Cooperation provisions of the Single European Act from the jurisdiction of the European Court , Article L of the Maastricht Treaty similarly defines the provisions of that treaty subject to the jurisdiction of the Court in such a way as to exclude those on Foreign and Security policy and those on Home Affairs and Justice ( with one minor exception ) . |
| 28 | Like Title V on foreign and security policy , being ‘ intergovernmental ’ it may be ratified by the Government without parliamentary assent , and is not to be debated in Parliament . |
| 29 | The treaty text on political union provides for enhanced intergovernmental co-operation on foreign and security policy , on defence policy and in the fight against terrorism , drug trafficking and other crimes . |
| 30 | However , common policies on foreign and security policy and on judicial affairs [ see below ] were to form separate " pillars " standing outside the normal EC decision-making machinery [ see also pp. 38295-96 ] . |