Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 2 the police used batons , tear gas and live ammunition to disperse hundreds of youths who had set up roadblocks and stoned and burned cars in shanty towns on the outskirts of the capital . |
| 2 | Woolf seemed to ascribe this to the ignorance of English sentencers about prison conditions on the one hand and other countries ’ practices on the other . |
| 3 | This monograph deals with the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of stability tests on cosmetic products . |
| 4 | An important feature of this study was the use of the daily prices of call options on the outstanding contracts for each index to calculate the implicit market estimates of the subsequent price volatility for each of the outstanding contracts . |
| 5 | Further cuts in government subsidies on petrol , diesel , kerosene and fertilizer were announced . |
| 6 | Someone was balancing precariously on a ladder , inserting four-foot candles into gilt sockets on the wall while his partner was hanging gold balloons and purple streamers below . |
| 7 | The annual heads of government meetings on June 13-14 , 1990 , in Gothenburg ( Sweden ) and on May 24 , 1991 , in Vienna ( Austria ) were dominated by ( i ) the negotiation of a European Economic Area ( EEA ) agreement with the European Communities ( EC ) , a process which was to reach a conclusion in October 1991 and ( ii ) the development of a new relationship with the countries of central and eastern Europe . |
| 8 | There are a number of distinct approaches to providing the recipe for an optimal distribution of income which take the discussion away from the nuts and bolts of the actual effects of government policies on different income groups . |
| 9 | At the end of August the Soviet authorities eased restrictions on Japanese visits to family graves on Etorofu , the most militarily sensitive and least accessible of the four islands , and in September the Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited Japan and suggested that his government was prepared to negotiate over the Northern Territories . |
| 10 | Scarborough council is to spend £3,000 to provide 45 plaques for landmark buildings on the resort 's heritage trail . |
| 11 | Conflicting statements by banking officials on Aug. 10 and 11 caused confusion over government policy towards loans for Taiwanese business projects in China . |
| 12 | Apart from the dubious nature of several of these claims , no mention is made of the possible ill effects of health services on economic growth . |
| 13 | American steel firms have laid charges before the US administration that five European firms , including Britain 's United Engineering , have ‘ dumped ’ 200,000 tons of iron bars on the American market . |
| 14 | Off-road routes for mountain bikes on the Isle of Weight have been outlined in a new series of guides , Byways and Bridleways by Mountain Bike . |
| 15 | The discovery of large numbers of dolphin carcasses on the quayside of a Turkish Black Sea fishing village has triggered accusations of deliberate fishing . |
| 16 | They do agree , as a minimum , that there is a strong presumption against the use of nuclear weapons ; and that nuclear weapons must be subject , at the very minimum , to certain basic laws of war rules on such matters as not targeting the civilian populations as such . |
| 17 | For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands . |
| 18 | Test centres exist in other major cities as well , consequently the total figures for TOEFL candidates on a national basis would be far higher . |
| 19 | During the last few years there has been growing concern over the effects of sharp regional variations in house prices on the mobility of labour . |
| 20 | and Couchman and Carlberg , who argue that increased mergers in cluster haloes on a scale produced antibiasing . |
| 21 | Like using pastels , you just rub it on with your finger and get really subtle blend of there so , you can have it plain black and white or brilliant red or you know , very subtle , so you can get all sorts of paint effects on them okay ? |
| 22 | Birkenhead , Wirral 's principal town , was dubbed ‘ Smack City ’ by The Observer and apocryphal stories about heroin in school dinners and 5 wraps in ice-cream cornets on sale outside primary schools , first constructed in the popular Press , soon found their way into the worthy Times Educational Supplement ( 9 March 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Twenty five microlitre aliquots of bacterial suspensions , grown on nutrient agar slopes and prepared as described in the buccal cell adhesion assay , were mixed with equal volumes of sale solutions on a clean glass slide . |
| 24 | Mr Cecil Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , has told BR that all subsidies for commuter services on Network South East — currently £141 million a year — will be removed by March 1993 . |
| 25 | A substantial part of the increase certainly represented increased profits in money terms on the existing stock of US industrial investment abroad . |
| 26 | I can cite many examples of Government attacks on EC reports of the Government 's actions . |
| 27 | Of splendidly smooth rides out of King 's Cross and Paddington , sporty ones out of St Pancras on the HSTs , and nerve-racking , noisy ones with hunting bogies on ordinary stock out of Euston . |
| 28 | He and his wife were about to undertake a trip to America and Australia , which in the event developed into something of a busman 's holiday as he was persuaded , perhaps not against his will , to address numerous meetings of trade unionists on the West Coast of the United States and elsewhere . |
| 29 | There is , of course , very extensive provision already made in the field of in-service education for language teachers , ranging from award-bearing year-long courses in universities to the relatively informal meetings of teacher groups on a self-help basis . |
| 30 | A comprehensive range of taught units for research students on research methodology in Education was developed , and a handbook produced for supervisors . |