Example sentences of "of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal pique over what they felt was inadequate consultation and personal rivalry between the leaders of the parties were seen by some as the most potent causes of the rift , but the official reason which the Liberals , the junior partners in the coalition , gave was their objection to the ending of tax deductions for car commuters and the raising of taxes on petrol and diesel fuel . |
| 2 | A former cabinet minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , was charged with evading ¥1.7 billion ( $12.6m ) of taxes on some ¥2.8 billion of ill-gotten gains that he made in a shares racket . |
| 3 | Apart from direct demands relating to pay and conditions for teachers , demands included : recognition of the professional status of teachers ; establishment of a technical commission on the financial needs of the Ministry of Public Education ; policies to defend the social welfare system ; elimination of taxes on books and educational materials ; and funding for student transport and school meals . |
| 4 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 5 | The attractions of the Bahamas include the absence of taxes on income , gifts , valued added , capital gains , wealth , inheritance and corporate profits , as well as the excellent climate . |
| 6 | ‘ Britain has the second highest level of taxes on alcohol in the EC and many are suffering as a result , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Whereas the American Constitution guaranteed that ‘ Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press ’ as early as 1791 , the British State continued to regulate the press through a variety of taxes on paper and advertising until the mid-1850s . |
| 8 | Journalism was more promising to the entrepreneur-scientist , with steam-presses , cheap paper , the abolition of taxes on knowledge , and new readership with expanding education and the growth of specialization . |
| 9 | The analysis of the impact of taxes on households should allow for the labour supply responses and for changes in the pattern of consumption . |
| 10 | If an inner-city supplies free art galleries , financed out of taxes on inner-city inhabitants , the rich still come in from the suburbs to make use of these facilities . |
| 11 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 12 | The researcher 's work on the effects of taxes on individuals and households draws heavily on the government 's Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 13 | The increases in excise tax included increasing the federal gasoline tax from 9 to 14 cents per gallon , the renewal of the tax on airline tickets , increased from 8 to 10 per cent , the doubling of taxes on a six-pack of beer from 16 to 32 cents , increased taxes on wines and spirits , and a tax increase ( from 16 cents a pack to 20 cents ) on cigarettes . |
| 14 | They included , in May , the legalization of private banking and the reduction of taxes on company profits from 89 per cent to 59 per cent in an attempt to encourage investment . |
| 15 | The incentives to industry included reductions in employers ' contributions to pensions and health insurance , the lifting of taxes on investment capital , and favourable export assistance . |
| 16 | Measures included ( i ) the elimination of taxes on fuel and gas oils and on kerosene ; ( ii ) extended tax rebates for exporters , calculated to be worth between US$670,000,000 and US$1,100 million per annum ; ( iii ) the reduction of the highest import tariff from 35 per cent to 20 per cent ; ( iv ) tariff increases for many intermediate industrial products , but the maintenance at zero of the minimum import tariff , which applied to fuels and capital goods not domestically produced ; and ( v ) a " temporary " increase , from 3 to 10 per cent , in a statistics tax levied on nearly all imports . |
| 17 | The main points were ( i ) a tax of 0.3 per cent on financial transactions ( ITMF ) , in force until 1994 , but not applying to wage cheques , pension payments and popular savings accounts ; ( ii ) to fight tax evasion an instruction to banks to report in specific cases and at the Finance Minister 's request all movements of individuals ' and companies ' accounts ; ( iii ) the simplification of the tax system with the elimination of three social contributions and their replacement by valued added tax ( VAT ) of between 7 and 10 per cent ; ( iv ) the elimination of taxes on manufactured products , fuel sales and additional income , and their replacement by a selective tax ( the rate of which had yet to be specified ) on cars , alcoholic drinks , fuels , electricity and telecommunications ; ( v ) the elimination of the separate collection of taxes by state and municipal governments and another by municipal government , so that all taxes ( except the ITMF ) would be collected by the federal government and shared with the states and municipalities , expected to produce a real increase in their revenues of 9 and 17 per cent respectively ; and ( vi ) a ban on the contracting of fresh debts by the Federal District , states and the municipalities until the year 2000 . |
| 18 | Both of these issues have a prominent part to play in assessing the impact of taxes on different groups . |
| 19 | In the absence of perfect competition , tax policy may be justified in influencing industrial structure , and microeconomic theory describes the impact of different types of taxes on monopoly firms ' decisions . |
| 20 | The CBI has suggested that petrol prices be raised faster than inflation , and that the current scale of taxes on company cars , at present related to engine capacity , should be altered to favour more fuel-efficient cars . |
| 21 | There are already a lot of Puritans on the London City Council , and they 'd love to close the theatres down . ’ |
| 22 | Support workers also worry about the effect of setbacks on the generally negative attitudes of many people in the community to people with learning difficulties . |
| 23 | A couple of setbacks on the journey kept our group of five wondering if we should really be going . |
| 24 | It will be a decisive day for the Government as a whole , which is desperate for a Budget coup to lift its fortunes after a series of setbacks on economic policy , pit closures and Maastricht . |
| 25 | There are , however , examples of lions on British vessels . |
| 26 | It provides them with an opportunity to spend a short period of time , usually two or three weeks , at work , doing a job , but also asking questions and canvassing a range of opinions on a variety of issues . |
| 27 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 28 | Thus , in a cumulative response , consensus , dissensus and , possibly , conflict of opinions on matters concerning the management of change and on curriculum theories in action , could be examined between and within the different groups . |
| 29 | And the Western experience of sex , he argues , is not the inhibition of discourse , is not describable as a regime of silence , but is rather a constant , and historically changing , deployment of discourses on sex , and this ever-expanding discursive explosion is part of a complex growth of control over individuals through the apparatus of sexuality . |
| 30 | But behind the vast explosion of discourses on sexuality since the eighteenth century there is no single unifying strategy , valid for the whole of society . |