Example sentences of "on the [adj] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 I 've had er an informal erm er package through from Paul , er just citing two of erm our staff on the recent erm thirteen week management overtime erm
2 On the former 's side , there was a clear , oft-stated belief that the union movement represented the best chance of overthrowing the government , given both the electoral weakness and the apparent shift from ‘ left wing principles ’ of the Labour party ( see Crick 1985 , p. 140 ) .
3 The close proximity of this junction to that between A71 and the link to Hermiston Village and Gogar Station Road created a ‘ staggered T ’ effect and due to the relatively high speed of traffic on the re-aligned A71 compared with the original flows through Hermiston Village , a section of this new A71 was widened locally and a central reserve created to form a short stretch of dual carriageway thus providing for safer turning movements within the junctions .
4 Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network .
5 But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ?
6 And I they were addressed to him and they were from the council and I simply said , er wrote on the outside erm no longer here , address not known .
7 Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year .
8 Defensively , he observes what he considers to be Debord 's virtues and comments on the latter 's avoidance of , as he puts it : ‘ the various pitfalls — formalist essentialism , aestheticist myopia , politically naive fetishism of reflexivity , and so on , typical of certain avant-garde practices linked to radical political agendas . ’
9 On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them .
10 As with Dubček in the 1960s , the Soviets endorsed the new Hungarian leaders of 1956 , János Kádár and Imre Nagy , who replaced Rákosi on the latter 's death .
11 And the deal between Apple Computer Inc and Echo Logic Inc on the latter 's application translation technology should make a raft of Mac applications available for the new machines .
12 Appointed Assistant Classicist to Horn in 1951 , he had become Head of Department and Editor of The Stopfordian on the latter 's retirement in 1959 .
13 Lord Cozens-Hardy , MR to Lord Buckmaster — as he became — on the latter 's appointment to the Lord Chancellorship , in a letter dated 26 May 1915 , quoted by R. F. V. Heuston , The Lives of the Lord Chancellors 1885–1940 , p. 269 .
14 From 1 January 1377 he was general receiver and keeper of the Privy Seal to the Black Prince 's young son , Richard , prince of Wales , and on the latter 's accession to the throne , Fordham at once ( on 26 June 1377 ) became keeper of the king 's Privy Seal .
15 Elster 's critique of functionalism is largely based on the latter 's absence of an ‘ explanatory mechanism ’ between the structure at issue and its reproduction-enabling effects .
16 Taking the biographical information in conjunction with the documents , one can see no reason whatever to doubt that he succeeded Hizir Bey on the latter 's death in 863/1459 , but the date of his leaving the office can not be so certainly fixed .
17 It seems entirely possible that it is to this period — roughly from 873/1468 ( or perhaps earlier ) to 878/1473–4 — that the Muftilik of Abdulkerim belongs , that he succeeded Fahreddin Acemi on the latter 's death and must then later have resigned or been removed from the Muftilik , perhaps to make way for Molla Husrev when he returned from Bursa .
18 Chauthala had been appointed Chief Minister on Dec. 2 , 1989 , replacing his father , Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment as the central government 's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture [ see pp. 37031 ; 37124 ] .
19 Jamsrangiyn Yondon as Minister of Defence on the latter 's retirement .
20 The President appoints a Prime Minister and , on the latter 's advice , a Council of Ministers , all of whom are responsible to Parliament .
21 The Governor-General appoints the Prime Minister ( currently Aneerood Jugnauth ) , and on the latter 's advice , the other members of the Council of Ministers , who are responsible to the Assembly .
22 The Governor-General appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's recommendation , the members of the Cabinet .
23 He had first been appointed Chief Minister in early December 1989 , replacing his father Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment to the central Cabinet .
24 The President of the Republic appoints the President of the Council ( Prime Minister ) and , on the latter 's recommendation , the other members of the Council of Ministers .
25 The President in turn appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's advice , the other members of the government .
26 The monarch appoints the President of the Government ( Prime Minister — currently Felipe González Márquez ) and , on the latter 's recommendation , the members of the Council of Ministers .
27 The President in turn appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's recommendation , the other members of the Council of Ministers .
28 Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions .
29 The Governor-General appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's advice , the other members of the Council of Ministers , who are responsible to the Assembly .
30 The Governor-General appoints the Prime Minister and , on the latter 's recommendation , the members of the Cabinet .
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