Example sentences of "on [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following guideline notes ( based on notes prepared by MC Strategy Services ) are presented below as a guide to how MC carries out an acquisition search . |
| 2 | This article is based on notes kept over the years since the late 1970s . |
| 3 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 4 | Crest size did not differ significantly between males and females in this population ( based on birds sexed by behaviour or dissection : median male crest , 38.6mm , n= 32 ; median female crest , 37.3mm ; n=56 ; Mann-Whitney U ; Z=0.7 , P=0.5 ; males were about 1.5% larger in measures of body size than females ) . |
| 5 | Similarly , plants reliant on birds to disperse their seeds have red fruits and berries . |
| 6 | Sea cliffs and rocky islands , breeding in late summer so that young can be fed on birds migrating through the Mediterranean at that time . |
| 7 | The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero . |
| 8 | Far-reaching controls on attempts to exclude contractual and tortious liability were introduced by UCTA 1977 . |
| 9 | The important British companies , from Korda 's London Films to Goldcrest , have attracted capital at a point where they seemed to understand the economic need to balance Hollywood extravagance with a strong dose of parsimony , but all have ended up committing suicide by spending huge sums of money on attempts to emulate Hollywood . |
| 10 | Evaluation , which is based on attempts to measure the realization of pre-specified goals and objectives , must , in this case be multi-faceted , concerned with library use and information skills , attitudes to libraries , effects of various instructional programmes , and use of a given library or information resources . |
| 11 | Occasionally the FBI cracks down on attempts to smuggle money . |
| 12 | TONS of French beer and wine were dumped on the roadside after a crackdown on coaches rolling off cross-channel ferries . |
| 13 | Parents and staff at a primary school are calling for compulsory seat belts on coaches following a crash in which thirteen children were injured . |
| 14 | A limited ban on coaches parking in the village of Grasmere in the Lake District might be imposed to ease congestion . |
| 15 | Damage symptoms on conifers include crown dieback and needles turning yellow ( usually on the upper side of branches ) and then falling off . |
| 16 | The ship slid , on minutes passed . |
| 17 | For whites , the night-shift is the least desirable and , as a result , many textile firms are dependent on Pakistanis to work it . |
| 18 | The newly introduced EC policy on mergers outlined in the previous section is similar in intent and approach to that of the UK . |
| 19 | Those working at Grange Terrace and Granton , however , did not move to Murchison House until 1976 , when the Grange Terrace premises were made available for staff primarily engaged on projects related to hydrocarbon geology . |
| 20 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 21 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
| 22 | These would best be resolved by a form of cost-benefit which pays close attention to the social ‘ externalities ’ involved in investment projects , which compares the time profiles of return on projects competing for resources at non-usurious rates of discount , and which does not operate with the technocratic pretension that all factors in an investment decision can be rigorously quantified ( i.e. which does not disguise as purely technical questions matters which should properly be open to political debate ) . |
| 23 | The money would be spent specifically on projects to reduce emissions of pollutants into the air and into rivers and the Baltic Sea . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend look with his Cabinet colleagues at the fact that Kent is receiving considerable capital-infrastructure funds but virtually all of that money is going on projects linked to the channel tunnel , to the great detriment of Kent 's other needs ? |
| 25 | Shell is also working on projects to help find training and work experience for some of Brazil 's 13 million street children . |
| 26 | In the UK , level of management decision on projects correlates positively . |
| 27 | Next year , Victim Support will be publishing reports on projects covering child victims of crime , families of murder victims , racial harassment and high crime areas . |
| 28 | Most car companies are working on projects to make cars more recyclable . |
| 29 | All the cost-cutting tricks which the Reichmanns had learnt on warehouses served them well , as did their single-minded determination to give their customers what they wanted . |
| 30 | The Institute is a founder member of the International Association of Institutes of Export , many of whose members have based their operations on patterns pioneered by the Institute in the U.K. |