Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The freedom of the Secretary of State to depart from the recommendations of the National Curriculum Council ( to which proposals on attainment targets and programmes of study must be referred ) , as in effect happened in the case of the history curriculum , stands in marked contrast to the restrictions binding teachers under the National Curriculum . |
| 2 | From the crisis over Nato modernisation in March to the casting down of the Wall in November stretch an astonishing nine months in which Germans on both sides have reached out with increasing boldness to take their destiny into their own hands . |
| 3 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 4 | The full-throttle climaxes of Francesca are delivered with a frenzied desperation which is guaranteed to play havoc with all but the most robust of dispositions , and the spine-tingling emotionalism of the gloriously protracted central section is entered into with a fearlessness which borders on the overwhelming — one can feel this music coursing through the orchestra 's veins . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that Ibanez 's current high profile is down to a marketing policy which borders on genius . |
| 6 | Many people seem to have an understanding of faith which borders on superstition . |
| 7 | An emphasis upon such occasions , taken in conjunction with the opinion surveys , could lead to the son of conclusion proposed by Shils and Young ( 1975 ) : the British people love their monarchy and this love is expressed during coronations and suchlike ceremonies with an intensity which borders on the mystical and which strengthens the sense of national community . |
| 8 | No-one is making any great claims for Neil Jenkins — which borders on the unique for a Welsh stand-off — but many are persuaded he will be a different player for his part in an historic triumph . |
| 9 | Referring , then , to the original simple democracy , it affords the true data from which governments on a large scale can begin . |
| 10 | Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS . |
| 11 | If policing pollution is not quite the ‘ uninterrupted sequence of suspicious scenes ’ ( Werthman and Piliavin , 1967:56 ) which writers on the police describe so vividly , the pollution control officer must , even so , be continually on his guard : |
| 12 | Forsyth , in his Orchestration , quotes a passage from Berlioz 's ‘ Requiem ’ in which chords on three flutes are combined with pedal notes four octaves below on eight tenor trombones in unison , and remarks that ‘ it probably sounds very nasty ’ . |
| 13 | Computers have a machine-code into which instructions on the program are translated , a code which is a kind of computational ‘ bottom line ’ — a language that does not require a further interpretive step because it comes complete with its own interpretation . |
| 14 | ‘ The underlying point I am seeking to make is that the debate on which decisions on devolution must be taken has not yet been concluded , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 15 | In order to give a framework within which decisions on individual applications can be judged , there exists a series of policy documents and maps collectively called development plans . |
| 16 | Find out which reporters on the local newspaper and radio are most likely to be interested . |
| 17 | One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists . |
| 18 | Another idea is a ‘ feebate ’ scheme under which levies on petrol would be linked to car-insurance premiums . |
| 19 | For British television drama , for instance , and for American television drama till the mid-fifties , a particular combination of live studio technology and a respect for theatrical naturalism placed time and space more at the service of performance than of narrative logic , seeking a continuity — rather than an interruptability — of time and space in which the actor could unfold the truth of the performance , or , more practically , in which mistakes on the studio floor could be minimized . |
| 20 | A spore which lands on wood with a moisture content of 20–25 per cent in a still and stuffy atmosphere where the temperature is between 7° and 27$C ( 44$ and 80$F ) can germinate and then throw out hollow strands known as hyphae . |
| 21 | Examples might include a push , a kiss , or throwing a projectile or water which lands on another person 's body . |
| 22 | Since its foundation it has held nine biennial congresses and one special general meeting in various parts of the United Kingdom , at which papers on various subjects relating to the deaf and dumb have been read and discussed , and resolutions passed . |
| 23 | In 1939 , Hailey was asked by Malcolm MacDonald , the Secretary of State for the Colonies , to write a further comprehensive report on Africa , in which recommendations on the next stage in the political development of the African colonies would be made . |
| 24 | The latter , however , also benefit from the type of counselling which schools , usually together , wish to provide or which churches on their own or through dioceses and joint ministries are ready to fund . |
| 25 | In conformity with the principles of the Ecclesiological Society , whose views on church design were increasingly influential in the 1840s and '50s , no internal gallery was provided . |
| 26 | Probably the adoption of the Gothic style for church schools is not so surprising when it is considered that the design of schools was a subject in which the influential Ecclesiological Society — the significant impact of whose views on church design has already been referred to — was prepared to interest itself . |
| 27 | Perhaps the last word might go to L. R. McColvin , whose views on the relationship between book provision and demand make interesting reading 35 years after they were written . |
| 28 | I refer here , of course , to B. F. Skinner , whose views on language learning as essentially a matter of behaviour being shaped by stimulus control provided theoretical warrant for an approach to language teaching which focused on habit formation . |
| 29 | ( Friedrich , a Hungarian enzymologist whose views on molecular memory are quoted above , was one of those whose association with the memory transfer work lasted the longest . ) |
| 30 | You are a mere picture editor , a workman , whose views on editorial staff are of no account . |