Example sentences of "on [noun] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet Defence Ministry spokesperson Col.- Gen. Nikolai Chervov announced on Dec. 15 , 1989 , that Soviet military spending was to be cut by 8.2 per cent in 1990 ( falling from 77,300 million roubles in 1989 to 71,000 million roubles in 1990 ) as a result of " new political thinking on defence doctrines ' . |
| 2 | Because personnel tends to be low on computer departments ' priority lists , you are very likely to have to go it alone , at least initially . |
| 3 | European Business : Gloom on car makers ' expansion |
| 4 | Using the RAIS software , based on Sun Microsystems ' ONC distributed computing and with a Motif-based front-end , users can tie VAX/VMS , Unix workstations , PC and Macintosh client systems to pairs or groups of Concurrent servers , with automatic re-routing in the event of failure . |
| 5 | KENNY DALGLISH , who has already spent £12 million on Blackburn Rovers ' quest for glory , set the transfer merry-go-round spinning again yesterday . |
| 6 | Microsoft has already taken licences on cartoon characters ' voices and electronic rights to reproduce famous paintings . |
| 7 | These fanatics used fame as a chance to impose their own loopy private fantasy world on pop kids ' imagination . |
| 8 | Customs guidance on tax representatives ' responsibilities , and the registration requirements , are contained in Public Notice 725 , VAT : The Single Market and VAT information sheet 1/92 , VAT : Overseas Businesses and Tax Representatives . |
| 9 | Of course , its effect on service users ' welfare is not yet established . |
| 10 | The FoE survey , based on water companies ' unpublished returns to the Drinking Water Inspectorate , showed that 14.5 million people received drinking water breaching the standard for pesticides and 3.5 million had supplies containing nitrate above the legal limit . |
| 11 | She was now about a hundred yards away from him , apparently on a collision course with an Irish wolfhound belonging to Jake , ’ The Man You Avoid on Dog Walks ' . |
| 12 | A variety of cross-checking research techniques is used : in addition to examining effects on student teachers ' and pupils ' observed behaviours , the processes of RAP usage and preparation are monitored , including the participants ' own reactions and experiences . |
| 13 | The result nevertheless represented an improvement on Les verts ' share of 0.35 per cent of the vote in the first round of the last legislative elections in 1988 . |
| 14 | Recent work by Edinburgh 's Western General Hospital suggests that Helicobacter pylori bacteria are often present in the plaque on ulcer sufferers ' teeth and may reinfect the gut . |
| 15 | Steerforth ‘ bored to death ’ as an undergraduate there , DC 19 ; the dons considered by him to be ‘ a parcel of heavy-headed fellows ’ , DC 20 ; Mrs Nickleby on Oxford undergraduates ' attachment to their nightcaps , NN 38 . |
| 16 | As announced in October , tax on fund managers ' fees is to be reduced from 20 p.c. to only 5 p.c . |
| 17 | THE familiar imbalance of quart and pint pot meant that the final three paragraphs were omitted from last Friday 's piece on Shotton Comrades ' under 19 team . |
| 18 | In the absence of perfect competition , tax policy may be justified in influencing industrial structure , and microeconomic theory describes the impact of different types of taxes on monopoly firms ' decisions . |
| 19 | Finally , the impact of the SHAPE and SHARPEN reports on health boards ' spending has been disappointing . |
| 20 | The influence of television on second-rank politicians ' visibility is confirmed by a more detailed trend analysis . |
| 21 | EC countries are likely to miss their target for carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 by atleast 4 per cent , according to a report on member countries ' plans submitted to the European Commission . |
| 22 | Stena 's chief executive , Dan Sten Olsson , had set his sights on Sea Containers ' empire — which included Sealink ferries and a fleet of 200,000 containers . |
| 23 | Although Sir Frederick Dainton , formerly a chairman of the University Grants Committee , spoke in 1984 of the need for a ‘ global , school-based assessment including profiles to end universities ' reliance on A levels ' for their admissions selection , it is exceedingly unlikely that entry to higher education would ever come to rely on profiles , or any other in-school method of assessment alone . |
| 24 | The Chilvers Report on School Teachers ' Pay & Conditions ( 1990 ) points towards far-reaching changes which give governing bodies considerable discretionary powers to enhance the salaries of individual teachers . |
| 25 | Last year , an order was needed to ensure that the recommendations of the Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers ' |
| 26 | BRAVO , a new on-screen booking system which puts British hotels and tourist attractions on travel agents ' counters , has entered its launch phase . |
| 27 | This is aimed at independent hotels , and will put them alongside chain properties on travel agents ' terminals . |
| 28 | A companion volume , Blades Trivia ( surely the club 's entire history ? ) , asks how Leeds United 's hopes of a win went up in smoke when Steve Cammack scored a late equaliser on April Fools ' Day 1975 . |
| 29 | He went to police college on April Fools ' day , 1970 , where he was the best student among his intake . |
| 30 | My original thought was to submit this article for publication in the Shropshire Star on April Fools ' Day , the joke being that a railway to Clun was in fact planned , though on the 1st of April nobody would believe it ! |