Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | An objective judgement can then be made on how to operate in such a way as to optimise the level of risk on a day–to–day basis . |
| 2 | In order to monitor the sources of recruitment on the programme HCIMA will require centres to complete , for each cohort of students , a standard form setting out the prior qualifications/learning experience for the student group . |
| 3 | In order to monitor the sources of recruitment on the programme HCIMA will require centres to complete , for each cohort of students , a standard form setting out the prior qualifications/learning experience for the student group . |
| 4 | Whereupon it was resolved : ‘ That the Society will consult the good of the Community in general and of the limits of the Society in particular , by encouraging such means as are likely to promote the study of farriery on rational scientific principles . |
| 5 | This appeared to Barth inevitably doomed to dilute the concentration of theology on its proper task by compromising between the revelation in Jesus and other sources and authorities . |
| 6 | The other option was going to see the scum v Villa on Monday but that fell through , they wouldn't/could n't pay me enough money to go through with it . |
| 7 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 8 | This liberal model was articulated by one of the basic education tutors in the following way : ‘ To see the look of joy on someone 's face when they pass , when they 've never passed anything else in their lives , is wonderful … |
| 9 | Calculation of stress-strain relations seems more appropriate to estimate the load of distension on a rather thick walled human rectum . |
| 10 | It is hard to estimate the effect of Parliament on the other sectors of British government , though its role is best understood by regarding it not primarily as a check on the executive but as one of the institutions through which the government operates . |
| 11 | Since volcanoes composed of similar rock types are also found in a range of climatic environments they also provide the opportunity to compare the effects of climate on the rate and nature of denudation . |
| 12 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 13 | The Dental News newsletter , issued by the Princeton Dental Resource Centre , based in New Jersey and picked up by dental patients in waiting rooms all over America suggested that an ingredient of cocoa , tannin , had been shown to inhibit the formation of plaque on the teeth , therefore helping stop cavities . |
| 14 | Anyone seeking to include the Liberals in realignment on the left is not only misguided . |
| 15 | Two things happened , however , to divert trade unionism from the adoption of that role and to lead it instead into what has been called its revolutionary period , one which for a time made the ownership and control of industries by the people who worked in them its main objective , which sought in short to displace the organisation of industry on the capitalist model by an industrial co-operative commonwealth . |
| 16 | The ceasefire was initiated in an attempt to increase the chances of agreement on a stalled UN peace plan [ see p. 37654 ] at a meeting of the Cambodian factions in Jakarta ( Indonesia ) in early June . |
| 17 | The result is a tendency to increase the amount of erosion on the coast . |
| 18 | ‘ This additional loss of market confidence threatens in turn to undermine the investment needed for land reclamation and urban regeneration and , in so doing , to increase the pressure for development on greenfield land , ’ Mr Lang said . |
| 19 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 20 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 21 | Norton 's Speed Disk is just one of the utilities you can use to discover the amount of fragmentation on your drive and fix it . |
| 22 | We would also ask you to observe the tradition of dinner on the terrace taking place by candlelight . |
| 23 | He was nominated in January 1649 to the high court of justice for the trial of Charles I ; he did not attend the early stages of the court , but in the trial week he attended busily , and was in the group of commissioners who stood up to pass the sentence of death on Saturday 27 January . |
| 24 | Alter Mr Reynolds ' return to the ward post-operatively his position was changed every 2 hours to minimize the effects of pressure on his skin . |
| 25 | A new campaigning group has been launched to counter the ravages of tourism on the environment of Europe 's most popular mountain range . |
| 26 | Hawkshead , Ulverston , Ambleside , Kirkby Stephen , Dent and Sedbergh all had galleries where prospective purchasers could walk around to view the goods on sale on market days . |
| 27 | If you wish to explore the village of Badby on foot or join either The Knightley Way or The Nene Way , parking is available at the picnic area on the A361 ( marked on the map ) . |
| 28 | It represents the strategic space in which mothers work to resist the impact of poverty on individual health while trying , at the same time , to prevent their families slipping further into debt . |
| 29 | Comparisons are with restated figures to reflect the acquisition of Rhetorex on March 12 1993 on a pooling-of-interests basis . |
| 30 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |