Example sentences of "and on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These shares are held by the investors , and on the triggering of the ratchet — the achievement of certain projections or market capitalisation on a flotation , for example — all or some of the convertible redeemable preference shares will be redeemed ; but if the results fall short of what is expected then they will be converted into ordinary shares and as a result increase the investor 's share of the equity at the expense of the proportion held by management . |
| 2 | The first ten years of the Peloponnesian War , to which we now turn , were to show that he did not , and that Periclean democracy — which was based on the power of money ( ‘ hail in due apportionment of wealth ’ say the chorus of Aeschylus ' Eumenides to Athens , line 996 ) and on the admiration of that power — was more precarious than Pericles had allowed . |
| 3 | Update 3 reported the encouraging response by centres to SCOTVEC 's invitation to submit proposals for Phase 2 Pilot Schemes and on the consideration of these proposals by Scrutiny Panels . |
| 4 | The second , signed on Sept. 18 , was a general co-operation agreement , and the third , signed on Nov. 26 , was an energy accord , with agreements on joint use and development of water resources in Cunene province and on the electrification of southern Angola and northern Namibia . |
| 5 | Our concern is with that huge category of stock which is not issuing well and which fills our valuable storage space : the nineteenth-century biographies ; the classics of politics and philosophy ; the long journal runs ; the multi-volume histories ; the ‘ complete ’ works ; the novels , plays and studies of and by yesterday 's men and women ; the giant topographical histories — the accumulated cultural and historical heritage that lies heavily on the stacks and on the reference shelves . |
| 6 | It was a middle-aged face , deeply wrinkled around the mouth and on the forehead , and artificially tanned . |
| 7 | This project will provide an up-to-date study of the impact of such factors on the size and composition of the population of children in care and on the likelihood of children coming into care . |
| 8 | Indeed , Anselm 's greatness as an influence in the Christian world must rest almost entirely on his Prayers and Meditations , on his Monologion , Proslogion , and Cur Deus Homo , and on the sanctity which pervaded his whole life after his conversion in 1059–1063 . |
| 9 | Although the dismissal in August 1990 of the Bhutto government by presidential decree [ see pp. 37652-53 ] did not , as expected , lead to military rule , the event was marked by controversy centring on the President 's arbitrary exercise of power [ see p. 37764 ] and on the haste with which criminal proceedings were brought against Bhutto and some of her former ministers . |
| 10 | Local Christians took over our cinema to show the film Jesus of Nazareth and on the eve of the opening , the resident poltergeist threw a fit behind the closed doors of the projection room . |
| 11 | Many of the families were Ayrshire members of the Free Church of Scotland , led by the Rev. Thomas Burns , and on the eve of departure the minister conducted a service on the shore . |
| 12 | Some three months after the bombing , at the very end of the old year and on the eve of the next one , choosing the date with a certain bitter amusement , Edouard left the house at St-Cloud in the late evening , and drove , alone , into the centre of Paris . |
| 13 | In the scenes before battle Hal and Westmoreland address Falstaff in affectionate prose ( IV.ii.49ff. ) , and on the eve of battle Hal still shares that medium with his old crony ( V.i.121ff . ) . |
| 14 | Foreign capital accounted for half the new capital in industry between 1909 and 1913 , and on the eve of the war 47 per cent of the joint-stock capital in Russian industry was foreign owned . |
| 15 | Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important . |
| 16 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 17 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 18 | And on the hour Gill picked up a Hitchcock through ball , controlled it on his chest and fired in a memorable goal . |
| 19 | He learned to knit clothes for himself and others , and on the wall of his Stuttgart home there hung a big , beautifully designed and stitched carpet which he made in 1952 while recovering from an illness . |
| 20 | It was lit by naked bulbs , the floor was bare boards , and on the wall was a hand-made poster which said . |
| 21 | Some pairs of boots and wellingtons were lined up beside it , and on the wall , above a crude , oil landscape that seemed meant to depict the moor where the diver nested , was a long rack , presumably meant for fishing-rods . |
| 22 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 23 | Every way we look we see a barrier and on the wall is written ‘ No ! |
| 24 | and on the wall , crowded |
| 25 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 26 | Bedroom has got a , it 's in an alcove so you 'll have that piece where it 's bottom of the stairs or wherever , I mean , the , stand on slip mats you 're gon na get that because of the , the airing cupboard is part of the hall , part of the bedroom and nothing you can do about that one , and on the wall it 's just gon na be one length of each room , cut off , perfect , , actually they do n't normally do that , they usually just the measurement , cos I not , never understood why they do n't have measurements there all standard , you guarantee use the one strip of another roll |
| 27 | It does n't mean to say that we are not on the , alert and on the look out and er , I think those opportunities erm , er , will still occur and that er , we will be involved . |
| 28 | There were more seagulls than there had been that morning , on the cliffs and on the sea itself . |
| 29 | But I think the French will be practising hard in the correct boats and on the sea . |
| 30 | These have improved in recent years , both in the air and on the sea , and that is good news for everyone here . |