Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] on the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eligibility for the scheme is defined in such a way as to exclude the very people who 've been worst hit by the cuts and to maximise the infl influence on the unemployment figures . |
| 2 | The Oxford University Student 's Union has expressed its disappointment at the Government 's action on the Student Loans Bill in the Commons last night . |
| 3 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 4 | It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire . |
| 5 | It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire . |
| 6 | In last week 's article on the US elections , ‘ All Bull And Bush ’ , we referred to the Republican candidate , Pat Buchanan , as ‘ a womanising rake ’ . |
| 7 | Some Institute members have already raised questions about , for example , the lack of a Tax Faculty response to the Institute of Taxation 's stance on the exam proposals in the first programme . |
| 8 | ALMOST two months into Colombia 's crackdown on the cocaine cartels , it is becoming increasingly clear that President Virgilio Barco has launched a war he can not win . |
| 9 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 10 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 11 | In 1861 the Bombay government published Rigby 's Report on the Zanzibar Dominions , a comprehensive and informative survey of the sultanate . |
| 12 | The Minister of Cabinet Affairs and Administrative Development , Atif Ubayd , speaking in January 1990 about Egypt 's view on the IMF proposals of a devaluation of the Egyptian pound to boost exports and an increase in the interest rate to encourage savers , said that the amount proposed was " not justified and bigger than needed " , but added that Egypt was willing to reach a compromise agreement on both issues . |
| 13 | Last week 's note on the animal antics that Durham County Fire Brigade gets up to rang a bell with reader H Featherstone from Bishop Auckland . |
| 14 | But there seems little doubt that the psychoanalysts ' stress on the childhood roots of adult problems played its part in the general investigation of primitive roots which fills Sweeney Agonistes . |
| 15 | The *actual* figure on the transfer papers for Cantona was 1.8 million . |