Example sentences of "on this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next month the front on this approach to the Mort Homme barely shifted . |
| 2 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
| 3 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell met I have n't sat here on this bed like a boy in a schoolroom reciting lists of facts for nothing ! ’ |
| 5 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 6 | The council claimed planning permission had never been sought or been granted , but in 1984 told SPAG that they were unable to take action on this issue as the statutory period of five years within which action could be taken had passed . |
| 7 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 8 | I am sickened to now learn that the Government has acquiesced to the other EC leaders on this issue at the Edinburgh Summit and that , for the sake of subsidiarity , this directive has been dropped . |
| 9 | To hold a ballot for strike action on this issue at some point in the future dependent on the success of the actions outlined above . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State shared this preference for assessment by teachers , but the Conservative leadership was split on this issue with Mrs Thatcher herself favouring nationally standardised pencil and paper tests mainly because they lend themselves to direct comparisons between schools . |
| 11 | The appeal on this issue of fact was , in my opinion , a hopeless one . |
| 12 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 13 | We 're gon na , we 're gon na stay on this issue of ownership and surpluses for a little time , cos it 's actually so important , but it 's not unreasonable for your pensioners to think that here was this pot of money to which one could dip into , but the only thing is the pot of money disappeared did n't it ? |
| 14 | Summarises changes in the law and advice on this issue since Circular 108/77 on Nature Conservation and Planning . |
| 15 | Am I right in suspecting that perhaps all is not sweetness and light on this issue among the New Scientist team ? |
| 16 | THE LORD PRESIDENT invited the Cabinet to review their decision that Ministers should be free to vote against the advice which was to be given on this issue by the responsible Minister as representing the considered view of the Government . |
| 17 | A paper on this issue by Schofield was published in the Journal of Family History ( spring 1985 ) . |
| 18 | The doctrine of operationalism took a particularly extreme view on this issue by stipulating that the meaning of a concept consisted in the operations required to measure it . |
| 19 | The Children 's Society , a national voluntary child care organization providing the only safe houses for runaways and the only comprehensive research on this issue in England ( De'Ath and Newman , 1987 ; Newman , forthcoming ) , has suggested the following as a basic operational definition for further work in this area : Such a definition would combine two currently separate categories of young people ( runaways and absconders ) and could provide the basis for the collection of national statistics to estimate the prevalence of runaway behaviour . |
| 20 | Correspondence on this issue in the BMJ would be helpful in clarifying whether doctors are giving up medicine altogether because of the lack of opportunity to train and work over shorter hours . |
| 21 | On climate change [ see also p. 37291 ] , Resolution 44/207 recalled an earlier resolution ( 43/53 — see p. 36778 ) and noted the number of conferences that had been held on this issue in 1989 . |
| 22 | [ For signature of outline agreement on this issue in March 1990 see p. 37330 . ] |
| 23 | SCIAF is a member of the CARITAS Working Group on AIDS which is the major international grouping of agencies on this issue in the Catholic Church |
| 24 | ‘ The Conservatives have not performed that well on this issue in recent years , ’ he says . |
| 25 | Since the war there has been a remarkable lack of comment on this issue from the German side . |
| 26 | Le Pen may succeed in winning allies on this issue from the more moderate right wing , as he already has on the issue of immigration and race in France , which is a depressing prospect . |
| 27 | When on this mill for the last time there will close the gate |
| 28 | The Association is being helped in putting on this presentation by L. |
| 29 | Order was temporarily imposed on this chaos by the Emperor Theodore . |
| 30 | This case provides the clearest indication of how the popular press may trade in deciding the appropriate nickname for a new case when the Star decided to focus special attention on this rape of a 6-year-old ‘ He 's been called The Beast , The Monster , the evil sex maniac … . |