Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reconnaissance parties divided up their gear , to share out the better UK equipment , before COPP 3 sailed in HMS Unbending for a reconnaissance of the beaches between Sciaco and the river Belice , some 15 miles ( 24km ) of coast on the south-west shores of Sicily . |
| 2 | The ex-communist ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) inflicted a humiliating defeat on the opposition parties in a general election held on June 28 . |
| 3 | The planting consists of pairs of Ficus benjamina ( one 6m and the other 7.5m ) in each in situ planter feature in each wing of the atrium , a reception backdrop of ballheaded Ficus nitida ; and repeated ballheaded Ficus on the office walkways on every level . |
| 4 | I was able to study only a few of these birds but Brosset 's ( 1978 ) research on the Malimbus weavers of the Gabon forests has usefully extended the story . |
| 5 | That there should be more research on the language needs of employment and that the relationship between such needs and the teaching of English , community and foreign language should be explored in teacher education . |
| 6 | That there should be more research on the language needs of employment and that the relationship between such needs and the teaching of English , community and foreign languages should be explored in teacher education . |
| 7 | Three recent significant changes have created a great opportunity to focus research on the health needs of the population . |
| 8 | The creation of the purchaser and provider split , the introduction of medical audit , and the new research and development strategy for the NHS provide an opportunity to focus research on the health needs of the population |
| 9 | Research projects are concerned with housing for the elderly , the mentally handicapped and mentally ill and it is hoped to carry out research on the housing circumstances of single women , ethnic minority groups and the physically disabled . |
| 10 | The machine was ‘ perfectly balanced ’ , the Scientific Farming Machinery Co claimed , with the engine ahead of the front axle to put 95% of the weight on the driving wheels for maximum traction . |
| 11 | The additions to this B-tree have had no effect on the index entries on the left-hand side of the tree , but have led to several changes to the right-hand index entries . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that contemporary comment was no stronger than it had been in the nineteenth century , World War I had a dramatic effect on the marriage expectations of women , and it may be hypothesised that there were concomitant changes in attitudes towards the desirability of careers for daughters of middle class parents . |
| 13 | Indeed , my guess is that this particular political scandal will have a far more profound effect on the spending patterns of the British public than any Autumn Statement incentive or cut in interest rates . |
| 14 | This means , in turn , that divorce can have a devastating effect on the income prospects of , mainly , older women ( Joshi and Davies , 1991 ) . |
| 15 | In the meanwhile , it appears that the over-elaborate Kenyan system of import licensing has had a more dampening effect on the animal spirits of entrepreneurs than the more selective Brazilian CACEX system . |
| 16 | It is striking that Papinian ( if it is he ) emphasizes the value of the decision only in terms of its effect on the family expectations of father and children as to how mother will behave . |
| 17 | The *actual* figure on the transfer papers for Cantona was 1.8 million . |
| 18 | The answer depends a good deal on the value judgements of the government in power . |
| 19 | Another scene on the Wicker Arches during the transition from steam to electric in 1954 . |
| 20 | It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire . |
| 21 | It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire . |
| 22 | Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours . |
| 23 | In 1844 one auxiliary corps of artillery still stood guard on the city walls at night , and they disturbed many people with their noisy alerts . |
| 24 | And this is precisely the conclusion that Evans reaches in his more recent work on the computer industries of Brazil and South Korea ( Evans and Bastos Tigre , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | From careful work on the snail faunas of the chalk sludge from one of these ( the Devil 's Kneading Trough in Kent ) Dr Michael Kerney showed that the erosion must have happened in a very short time indeed . |
| 26 | This is the second stage of work on the innovation problems of small high technology firms and their subsequent varying impact on regional economies . |
| 27 | The psychiatrist John Cooper has carried out some work on the personality characteristics of ‘ houseproud ’ women . |
| 28 | It is of interest to refer in this context to Beckett 's ( undated ) empirical work on the adoption practices of Torres Strait Islanders where adoption has traditionally been open . |
| 29 | The section will conclude with some remarks on two topics of special interest : the effects of exchange depreciation on the balance sheets of Yugoslav banks , and the revealing light thrown on the Yugoslav financial system by the recent collapse of the Bosnian firm of Agrokomerc . |
| 30 | FoE pollution campaigner Karen McVeigh says that such allowances should be made conditional on the bus operators including a requirement for low-sulphur diesel in their fuel specifications . |