Example sentences of "on [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer studies have been carried out on microcirculatory hemodynamic changes of the stomach induced by endothelin , however . |
| 2 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 3 | THE 64-day Strangeways riot trial ended yesterday when a jury at Manchester Crown Court returned the last of their verdicts on eight former inmates . |
| 4 | We have been able to maintain parity within the ERM , interest rates have been reduced on eight successive occasions and we now have one of the lowest , if not the lowest , monthly inflation rates in the Community . |
| 5 | Since taking power in a military coup in 1954 Gen. Alfredo Stroessner was on eight consecutive occasions declared the winner of presidential elections as the candidate of the Colorado Party , most recently on Feb. 14 , 1988 [ see p. 35887 ] . |
| 6 | The WORC programme adopted a longi-tudinal , comparative focus based on eight in-depth studies of firms and their work organization in their sectoral environments . |
| 7 | Public spending in the USA is higher than in the UK ; the US spends nearly one and a half times that amount in addition on private medical benefits , yet health outcomes in the two countries are broadly comparable . |
| 8 | Opposition groups , centred on 32 former members of the National Assembly dissolved in 1986 [ see pp. 34767-68 ] , had campaigned for a boycott of the elections , claiming that they were unconstitutional and were designed to elect a council " without teeth " . |
| 9 | Experiments were performed on 32 healthy volunteers with no evidence of current or past gastrointestinal disease . |
| 10 | Elections were held on June 27 for 883 seats on 32 local councils . |
| 11 | These cards I filed in alphabetical order , and I noted on each one details of new purchases and quantities . |
| 12 | On each level alternatives are transformed into compatible aspects of an all-inclusive Christian discourse which absorbs differences into a higher unity . |
| 13 | Thirty-nine per cent of these were insulin treated , 39 per cent were managed on oral hypoglycaemic agents and 22 per cent were not receiving treatment or following a diabetic diet . |
| 14 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 15 | Mr Pollard said he could n't comment on specific sentencing decisions . |
| 16 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 17 | On specific political issues , the resolution expressed the SI 's support for self-determination , democracy and economic and ecological recovery in Central and Eastern Europe ( including the Baltic ) , and called for the full participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) in the Middle East peace process and an international peace conference . |
| 18 | The Environmental Department also trains management on specific environmental issues in order to implement procedures to comply with other policy objectives . |
| 19 | Most of the potent drugs obtained from plants are known to act on specific physiological systems . |
| 20 | A further luxury Excise Duty of 10% will be assessed on specific expensive cars , which may happen to be imported cars , but simply coincidence , boats , furs and electrical goods . |
| 21 | The dependence of muscle development on specific cytoplasmic factors is dramatic . |
| 22 | It thinks that a sensible way would be to standardise on windows , icons , menus , and command box style via agreement on specific languages — such as C , C++ — for all interfaces , with reusable source code modules , rather than on specific product-oriented solutions . |
| 23 | Weingast , Shepsle and Johnsen ( 1981 ) explore the implications of projects , programmes and grants that concentrate their benefits on specific geographical constituencies but are financed through general taxation . |
| 24 | The text rests mainly on specific cited examples , drawn from the literature up to 1987 , but the authors comment on both the scope and the likely mechanism of the various transformations . |
| 25 | For the non-specialist , Butler 's first chapter , on specific musical influences , will be of most interest . |
| 26 | The setting of goals and targets for health has advanced considerably in Australia , through focusing attention on specific social groups in the population with very poor health and through formulating targets for the wider social and environmental determinants of health . |
| 27 | Two of Hassler 's earliest publications were settings of Italian texts , Canzonette a quattro voci ( Nuremberg , 1590 ) and 33 Madrigali ( 1596 ) ; sometimes they lean heavily on specific Italian models : thus his canzonetta , ‘ Io son ferito , Amore ’ , borrows musically as well as textually from Palestrina 's ‘ Io son ferito , ahi lasso ’ . |
| 28 | The tendency to restrict the use of conventional weapons , while apparently leaving the use of nuclear weapons almost untouched , is also evident in the 1981 UN Convention on Specific Conventional Weapons . |
| 29 | An unequal span biplane , the London had all-metal , fabric-covered wings ( except metal-covered upper surfaces on lower inner wings ) of two-bay configuration . |
| 30 | The existing flat rate tax of 1s. in the pound could not , Asquith assumed , be increased without incurring hardship for those on lower taxable incomes . |