Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IBA was made of sterner stuff when the Foreign Secretary called for the banning of Death on the Rock . |
| 2 | Holly could not resist , and they squeezed him out from the hole and when his feet were clear the two men stamped together on the steel plate to flatten it back , and between his knees he could no longer see the whiteness of snow on the stones and the zebra flash of the sleepers . |
| 3 | The key here lay in the provision of information on the occupational hazards of asbestos to the Raybestos Manhattan workers . |
| 4 | A similar shift occurred on attitudes to policies which promote equal opportunities for women and ethnic minorities and the provision of abortion on the National Health Service . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The change of mind on the part of the council is good news for the residents of Ferryhill . |
| 6 | On March 16 Fokin announced Ukraine 's intention of signing the G-7 memorandum , defending the change of stance on the grounds of the concessions obtained by Ukraine on Vneshekonombank . |
| 7 | The change of allegiance on the part of individual scientists from one paradigm to an incompatible alternative is likened by Kuhn to a ‘ gestalt switch ’ or a ‘ religious conversion ’ . |
| 8 | He promised Draper and Berry that he would not stake the existence of Virgin on the airline . |
| 9 | Haigh 's denial of the existence of anti-clericalism on the eve of the Reformation is a case in point . |
| 10 | This question is taken from the opening section of the report of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education on the Primary School chaired by W H Hadow . |
| 11 | She took a quick step forward and saw the flicker of surprise on the man 's face . |
| 12 | He glanced quickly at Edward and Corbett saw the flicker of annoyance on the Prince 's face . |
| 13 | Sara was not in the best of tempers because ( she kept saying ) she had nowhere to put her feet between the aubergines and the case of wine on the floor . |
| 14 | In the case of cross-licensing on the other hand , firms license use of the results of their own research out to their competitors . |
| 15 | The make-up of these bodies can be particularly important when governments exert pressure over a particular programme , as happened to the BBC in the case of Real Lives ( an examination of the life of an IRA sympathiser in Belfast ) and to the IBA in the case of Death on the Rock ( a This Week programme about the SAS shooting of three IRA members in Gibraltar ) . |
| 16 | The moral justice that Nizan attributed to the Soviet state was heightened by the rise of fascism on the international scene , by the need for a popular front anti-fascist movement . |
| 17 | For these MPs there is both more restiveness over the aimlessness of life on the backbenches and a stronger motive for not annoying the leader on whose patronage a ministerial career depends . |
| 18 | A tumour or trauma in one side of the brain causes a loss in the field of vision on the other side . |
| 19 | In this case a twelve-month sentence for unlawful wounding terminated the contract of employment on the first day of imprisonment . |
| 20 | Labour 's Doug Hoyle said it had ‘ lifted the cloak of secrecy on the arms that went to Iraq ’ . |
| 21 | My own view is of a series of historical accidents , subject to engineering constraints on the one hand , and to the conservatism of development on the other . |
| 22 | Its huge eyes fell on the scrap of paper on the floor . |
| 23 | However , the experience of farming on the urban fringe illustrates the scale of the problems encountered when urban recreation and agriculture are indiscriminately mixed without any attempt to manage their inevitable incompatibilities . |
| 24 | Adult sheep often have a few N. battus eggs in their faeces , but these are insufficient to precipitate a larval flush although enough to ensure the persistence of infection on the pastures . |
| 25 | The stubby third leg is probably the result of the difficulty of building on the marshy ground near the River Welland , although it has been suggested that the ‘ Blackfriars Spur ’ forms the phallus of the bull . |
| 26 | In his dramatic resignation statement before a huge press conference in the Ministry of Defence on the afternoon of Thursday 9 January 1986 , Heseltine explained his sudden walkout at that morning 's Cabinet meeting in terms which raised it high above a small , troubled helicopter manufacturer in the West Country . |
| 27 | TESTS carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture on the flock of 5,000 hens owned by nuns at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery in Northamptonshire , showed that there was no danger to public health , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 28 | Auctioneers nationwide are also angry that they , who have been expected to check ear tags with Cattle Identification Documents on all cattle going through the mart , have not been consulted by the Ministry of Agriculture on the new scheme . |
| 29 | During the war of 1939–45 , Emberton was housing officer to the Ministry of Aircraft Production , architectural adviser on hostels to the Ministry of Works , and consultant to the Ministry of Supply on the design of steel houses . |
| 30 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |