Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his home at Denbigh Terrace , Richard Branson flicked off the television , breathed deeply on the tangible aroma of excitement in the air and allowed a broad smile to crease his face . |
| 2 | The practical consequence of the range of laws we have described was that , by 1979 , the freedom to engage in peaceful protest in this country was traditionally dependent not on the law but rather on the benevolent exercise of discretion by those in power . |
| 3 | They may also have missed out on the crucial period of sociability , relatively early in life , when dogs learn about their wider environment . |
| 4 | Smith ( ibid. 157 ) also touches on the crucial feeling of potentiality which the university experience can produce in the individual , but which the police are generally unable to incorporate . |
| 5 | The nearest we got to an official pronouncement on the recent escalation of terrorism was the inane comment of Security Minister Sir John Wheeler that the IRA was defeated . |
| 6 | Thus , the effect of NO synthase inhibitors may depend on the recent history of activity in the hippocampus . |
| 7 | Much argument centred on the proper meanings to be attached to particular words such as ‘ economic ’ and on the recent history of transport legislation . |
| 8 | Why , then , do they not do more for small business and look again at legislation on the late payment of debt ? |
| 9 | The paper also comments on the low proportion of expenditure to be raised through local taxation and the high ‘ gearing ’ on tax rises . |
| 10 | A parallel audit of the company 's technical record , carried out internally , is believed to have revealed a number of shortcomings , focusing on the low level of use of recycled materials in computer manufacture . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the financial position of provider units in the NHS . |
| 12 | During the May 13 debate objections centred instead on the administrative cost of issuing and processing visas and staffing customs and immigration posts . |
| 13 | The objection therefore to totalization is not founded on any simple analogy with totalitarianism — though neither can this be excluded — but rather on the implicit violence of ontology itself , in which the same constitutes itself through a form of negativity in relation to the other , producing all knowledge by appropriating and sublating the other within itself . |
| 14 | The division seems almost complete : classical criminology focused entirely on the causal-corrective significance of the criminal justice system and ignored individual , social and economic factors ; positivist criminology focused almost entirely on the causal significance of individual , social and economic factors and ignored the criminal justice system . |
| 15 | In coronary patients the effect is all on the peripheral utilisation of oxygen by improving the uptake of oxygen by the working muscles and increasing the efficiency of distribution of blood in the periphery . |
| 16 | Elite studies preserved for some time their emphasis on stability and survival of political rule rather than on the visible exercise of power . |
| 17 | Dendrochronology , varves and ice core dating are such techniques , based respectively on the annual formation of tree rings , lake sediment layers and polar ice-cap layers . |
| 18 | Brandt 's emphasis on the annual variation of light and nutrients was modified by Alexander Nathansohn ( 1878–1940 ) , who pointed out that the vertical circulation of water played a vital role in bringing nutrients to the surface . |
| 19 | So for instance it imagines gradually moving an unstable block ( such as B ) downwards , pivoting on the relevant point of support . |
| 20 | It is misleading to dismiss arguments that focus on the unequal distribution of power in Japanese society simply because there are some examples of disagreement among dominant groups . |
| 21 | Faced with a band of former employees livid that the company is phasing out payment of medical expenses for life for its retired employees , the company said the phase-out , over three years , was essential to the survival of the company , which remains on the fragile edge of recovery . |
| 22 | US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert . |
| 23 | To explain the non-proportionality of annual time-series data , such as that in Table 3 , Duesenberry suggests that aggregate consumption depends not just on current income , but also on the highest level of income previously attained . |
| 24 | Classification of the disease course ( remission/mild , moderate or severe ) and calculation of the mean stool frequency were both based on the highest level of disease activity experienced during the entire study . |
| 25 | We may at this stage , however , rest the case on the changing structure of employment ( Figure 3.1 ) : this is basic to our study because , as we have said , Primary , Secondary and Tertiary sectors of the economy tend to have different locational patterns , and a shift from one sector to another may thus have fundamental effects on the geography of employment — and therefore of population . |
| 26 | ‘ Ethnic communities are reproducing a culture which the majority of British people have n't yet accepted as part of the British landscape , ’ says Dr Tariq Madood , a fellow at Nuffield College currently writing on the changing character of racism . |
| 27 | The project is linked to the Science Policy Support Group 's initiative on the changing culture of research . |
| 28 | Much of the controversy which has arisen over land use during the past ten years has centred on the changing balance of power between planners and developers . |
| 29 | Wouters ' more recent writings on the process of informalisation begin to plug another gap in his early conceptualisation by focusing on the changing balance of power between the sexes . |
| 30 | The effect of energy efficiency improvements will have a major influence on the changing pattern of demand in the years to the end of the century . |