Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing . |
| 2 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 3 | It was found that anxiety level had no effect on the consistency or direction of eye movement or on the relative extent of left-right deviations of gaze in response to verbal and spatial questions . |
| 4 | For example , in December 1938 Ben Smith , MP , wrote to the Board of Education warning that on the evidence of the evacuation rehearsals of September 1938 there would be a sufficient number of ill-clad or poorly-shod children to hinder the successful operation of the scheme ; but in reply the President of the Board of Education , Earl de la Warr , blandly denied that this would be so . |
| 5 | Loss of bitterness depends on the boiling conditions , on the degree , type and time of trub formation and on the yeast action in fermentation . |
| 6 | The concentration is less on the covering of a specific range of subject matter than on the acquisition of essential skills and increased insight into " modes of understanding " , of which History , Sociology , Biology and other subject fields are examples . |
| 7 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 8 | The way that organisational information systems are used depends less on technological forces or notions of information need than on the nature of organisational authority and control into which they are introduced . |
| 9 | I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land . |
| 10 | During the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cash cropping gradually increased , including the resumption of coffee cultivation but on a much more limited basis than hitherto . |
| 11 | Reviewing the information that is needed can have substantial and far-reaching effects on how senior executives think about business performance and on the decisions that they make . |
| 12 | It was agreed that a letter be sent to Mr Field thanking him for his work as Membership Secretary and on the Committee . |
| 13 | Large chains , such as McDonald 's and Beefeater , spend thousands of pounds on research into frying technology and on the best ways of cooking their staple menu item , French fries . |
| 14 | 2 All entries must be in ballpoint pen and on an official entry form . |
| 15 | This advice is usually given in ‘ one to one ’ meetings held in IDB House or on the companies ' premises . |
| 16 | Of course , all programmes may creak and require alteration as the term moves on , but do make a programme in diary form or on a bar chart , or both . |
| 17 | What I am trying to do is to , is to question the wisdom of introducing more rules and regulations and every time I try and raise this issue , whether it be in standing committee or on the floor of the house , quite understandably the chairman or the speaker , deputy speaker in your case , raises the point that in fact I 'm going outside the rules and regulations and the result is you can never challenge the whole principle because every time one tries to challenge it one gets up and that 's the disease I 'm afraid we 've now er facing in this country . |
| 18 | In its purest form , the doctrine advocated a return to subsistence economy but on a less individualistic and more communal basis . |
| 19 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |
| 20 | Erm I 've also received information on conference accommodation and on the billboards but I 've billed those as separate items so that you do n't listen to me half off all evening . |
| 21 | There are four main elements to the Government 's proposals in the Queen 's Speech : on higher education , on further education , on adult education and on the so-called parents charter . |
| 22 | A thriving plants depends as much on root vitality as on the good health of its top growth . |
| 23 | Within the schools , the Bilingual Education Project has created curricular materials such as Gaelic nursery rhymes and songs , cards , picture books with Gaelic tests , photographic sequences reflecting the communities in which the children are growing up and materials for young mothers aimed at informing and guiding them on issues related to the quality of playgroup experience , including books on children 's play , book-making materials and equipment and films on playgroup organisation and on the way young children learn . |
| 24 | I wonder how many of Expotel 's customers are aware that Expotel 's recommendations are based not on hotel quality but on the self-interested payment up-front of this ‘ sweetener ’ , plus exclusive corporate rates ? |
| 25 | Consider a unit volume dV in which there exist body forces f per unit mass and on the surface of which act stresses . |
| 26 | The senior Law Officer of the Crown , the Attorney-General , explained to the House that , on the question of the Shops Act 1950 , he had to make a decision based not on party politics but on the law . |
| 27 | Selling direct , by mail order and on the telephone , is cost effective , which means low prices for recession-strapped customers . |