Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall was apt to be described as ‘ a tough-as-nails reporter with a marshmallow centre ’ , though in her ‘ Dear Unity ’ role , the emphasis was rather on the concoction of sympathy than on the cutting edge of insight . |
| 2 | The day concentrated on personal awareness of accidents , on the theory and practice of prevention and on the written procedure that had been produced to eliminate major injuries . |
| 3 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 4 | But I 'm going to give you a little piece of paper and on the piece of paper it 's got ten questions . |
| 5 | You may be asked to concentrate on a pinpoint of light or on a particular spot on the ceiling while the therapist makes his suggestions of relaxation . |
| 6 | She had the same manner as George , a sad kind of demeanour that on a woman was attractive while on a man like George it was annoying . |
| 7 | It seems fanciful to imagine that the existence of a handful of male victims and female defendants would have any impact either on the future development by the judges of the substantive law of rape or on the handling of rape cases by the police , or indeed on the way that rape is generally perceived . |
| 8 | It is probably not an exaggeration to say that far more work has been published on the first type of task than on the second . |
| 9 | These are based on both the degree of digestion and on the proportions of teeth and bones affected , and using these patterns it is sometimes possible to identify predator species when they are unknown . |
| 10 | it stresses that risk should not be based on job title or place of work but on the extent to which there is actual physical exposure to the following substances : |
| 11 | As in the case of Bacon , the central importance of Paracelsus rests on the general impetus he gave to the reform of science and on the development of a comprehensive religious and ethical framework for scientific and medical endeavour . |
| 12 | Finally , it is also important for an officer to know about the processes which give rise to the particular effluents in his patch , since this helps the business of containment and on the spot diagnosis in an emergency . |
| 13 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 14 | In general , the Buid place far more stress on the process of growth than on the acts of planting seed or of conceiving children . |
| 15 | Now I 'd like to bring you back to Mr Williamson 's opening remarks in which he described the allocations of land for industry and all these other things that are tied in with industry now as generous , making generous allocations , and the Civic Society would like to see those allocations rather less generous , we are like trying to develop a climate of restraint when on the expansion of Harrogate and the rate at which people are encouraged or wish to come into the town . |
| 16 | Well we 'll start off at the top of Road and on the one side there was the furniture people they used to make furniture . |
| 17 | The major limitation relevant here is that Parliamentary ( or ‘ primary ’ ) legislation ( that is , ‘ statutes ’ ) can not , because of the doctrine of Parliamentary supremacy , be challenged in a court of law except on the ground that it is inconsistent the European Community law . |
| 18 | The moonlight glimmered on the great sweep of lawn and on a curious bird standing in the middle of it , the size of a swan but more ungainly , with a little coronet of feathers on its head . |
| 19 | In 1975 he wrote his open letter to President Husak about the price that would have to be paid for delivering their country into the hands of an ‘ entropic ’ regime which depended ‘ solely on the ruling minority 's instinct of self-preservation and on the fear of the ruled majority ’ , a regime which positively required the suppression of truth and history for its surival . |
| 20 | ‘ Does n't matter if they 're still at school , as long as they 're over the age of consent and on the Pill . |
| 21 | On the one hand she is a strong and independent woman of power while on the other she is undeniably a patriarchal invention , a master of disguise designed t inspire fear of such female independence and power by associating it with demonic forces . |
| 22 | Thus the QLF structure above survives if and only if the constraints on the third argument of pick-up2 and on the only argument of jack2 are consistent . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 24 | Vieira said on May 13 , 1990 , that the PAIGC had begun the process of creating conditions for the introduction of a multiparty system , adding that it was essential that this process developed in a spirit of dialogue and on a non-tribal basis . |
| 25 | Labour 's success was based not on equality of opportunity but on the assertion that a working man was more equal than others in his claim to represent the working-class electorate . |
| 26 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 27 | Whatever men and women have been interested in , concerned about , preoccupied with , either in the line of duty or on the domestic and recreational fronts , they have communicated it in letters , notes , diaries , journals , files , log books and the like . |
| 28 | In order to equal the shares of the children , any sum paid by the intestate to a child by way of advancement or on the marriage of the child must be brought into account . |
| 29 | Throughout our course we place a strong emphasis on the logical structure of information and on the document and hypertext structures available to support it . |
| 30 | The focus on class fragments is , however , often based less on the problem of exploitation than on a Romantic vision of the working class as an authentic humanity , whose sensuality and desires are preferable and proper . |