Example sentences of "[noun sg] on " in BNC.

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1 The continuing military stalemate , even after the advent of the coalition governments of 1915 and 1916 , saw the emergence of both populist and radical right resentment , searching for an explanation of the impasse on the western front .
2 Mr Rees felt that the current impasse on distribution methods stemmed from a degree of confusion between voluntary systems and Administration Orders .
3 The apparent settlement had followed the intervention of the Governor-General , who had threatened , when the negotiations were at an impasse on March 15 , that he would use his powers to appoint a Prime Minister and to call another election .
4 The impasse on how to ratify and implement the treaty was resolved in May in a series of bilateral negotiations between the USA on the one hand and Ukraine and Kazakhstan on the other , during which time the two countries ' Presidents , Leonid Kravchuk and Nursultan Nazarbayev , visited Washington .
5 At the end of the procedure a 10 or 12 French Cope loop drainage catheter ( Cook Urological ) was left in the gall bladder on free drainage .
6 All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography .
7 It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath .
8 Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side .
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10 In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction .
11 It is a gesture of faith in the future on a scale that takes the breath away and confounds the gloom merchants .
12 Underlying it all , however , is one obvious fact : that the gathering and analysis of geographically distributed environmental data form the necessary starting-point for ensuring the success of our future on earth .
13 Sealink and P&O , with an estimated 80% share of the short-route ferry market , are pinning their hopes for the future on large capacity super-ferries and changes in manning procedures introduced after the last seamen 's strike .
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15 Lord Christopher declined to talk further about the change , saying delicate negotiations about his future on the estate were still underway .
16 Keegan 's club is building for the future on the back of 30,000 gates every home match , but the Newcastle boss refuses to discuss transfer targets and would n't comment on the Ferdinand situation yesterday .
17 The German theologian , Wolfhart Pannenberg , emphasises this impact of the future on the present in Jesus ' teaching .
18 It may help to remember that you can not build a towering future on inadequate foundations and that the deeper you sink into experience , the higher you can soar .
19 There is , however , continuing controversy about the extent to which reductions in mortality , especially in middle age and late life , have depended in the past and will depend in the future on collective measures to control the physical and social environment , or on voluntary , individualistic modifications in personal life-styles .
20 Gresham Telecomputing Plc , which last week released its first full year figures since the merger of the Gresham Group with Telecomputing Plc in 1991 is betting its future on the market 's movement towards open systems , despite the fact that its revenues still come from traditional ICL mainframe customers .
21 a reduction in men 's pensionable age is ruled out for the foreseeable future on grounds of cost … on the other hand , the government believes that raising the pensionable age for women would be unfair to women who have contributed over the years in the expectation of a pension at 60 .
22 Thus it is currently carrying out an environmental audit which will guide its policies in future on such matters as the use of energy , water purification , and fertilisers .
23 It is essential for Knights that the discipline should attempt to relate the past , present , and future on an appropriately scholarly basis .
24 Taken together these two propositions suggest that the traditions of conspiracy are liable to continue into the future on the extreme right , for no better reason than that this is where these traditions have existed and where they presently continue to exist .
25 1993 marks the start of an ambitious new preventative health care programme which aims to stem the spread of malaria and AIDS , and SIDT is pinning its hopes for a healthy future on the villagers , whose only option is preventative health care .
26 This makes it difficult for traders to recognize arbitrage possibilities involving a future on a geometric index when the future is underpriced , and may account for the replacement of the geometric VLCI future by its arithmetic equivalent .
27 However , the aggregate effect of arbitrage will be to bring the prices of shares and an index future on those shares into some no-arbitrage relationship .
28 For each change in the value of the MMI , Finnerty and Park ( 1987 ) regressed the natural logarithm of S t /S t -1 ; on the immediately preceding natural logarithm of F t /F t -l , where S t is the spot value of the index at time t and F t is the value of the future on the MM.I at time t .
29 The clinic intends to focus in future on training local health professionals , community health workers , and planners for the process of ‘ municipalisation ’ of health care .
30 These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate .
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