Example sentences of "on [noun sg] of [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over half the remaining grassland lies on Ministry of Defence land in Wiltshire ; most of the rest is on downland across the south of England . |
| 2 | THE LATEST controversy over political interference in research surfaced when a Sunday newspaper reported that the Prime Minister had personally pulled the plug on Department of Health funding for a survey of sexual habits to help scientists to predict the spread of Aids . |
| 3 | We know , in ICI , which of our competitors ' leaders look on loss of market share as a personal affront and will react accordingly , and we know which will always seek technical excellence regardless of commercial application . |
| 4 | The study of hapax legomena formed the basis of one of the earliest sophisticated statistical studies of the Bible , that of K. Grayston and G. Herdan in 1960 , who , building on work of P.N. Harrison in the nineteen twenties , argued that the Pastoral Epistles could not be the authentic work of the Apostle Paul . |
| 5 | After this paper was completed , the UK government announced its conclusions from the consultation process that had followed publication of the Green Paper on Abuse of Market Power in November 1992 . |
| 6 | The Green Paper suggested three possibilities for change including a proposal to adopt a general prohibition on abuse of market power in place of existing legislation similar to the Article 86 approach and supported by strong investigatory powers for the OFT , financial penalties for breach and the possibility of third party actions . |
| 7 | The EP on Feb. 11 voted , by 150 votes to 123 , for an EC-wide ban on tobacco advertising in magazines , newspapers and posters , on sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco companies , and on so-called " parallel " advertising ( in which other goods were associated with a tobacco brand name ) . |
| 8 | They will work with Sun on development of communications projects for nomadic computing — tying in with the work at Sun 's new FirstPerson unit ( CI No 2,119 ) , and is to use Sparc systems for all workstation products it develops for use in Russia . |
| 9 | This was suggested by the relative lack of change in rates of acid secretion and intragastric acidity on eradication of H pylori despite substantial falls in circulating gastrin concentrations , and by the suppression of acid secretion produced by H pylori on first infection . |
| 10 | Chittajallu et al were unable to detect a change in the response to stepped infusions of pentagastrin on eradication of H pylori from patients with duodenal ulcer disease , although circulating concentrations of pentagastrin were not measured . |
| 11 | Tax at 15% on excess of Example B over Example A ( after allowing 25% of additional pension relief on 11,400 ) 1,822.50 |
| 12 | Vines for SCO Unix — unlike Banyan 's vanilla implementation of Vines which functions as an integrated network operating system incorporating AT&T 's System V Unix — sits on top of SCO Unix in a layered configuration engineered by SCO . |
| 13 | There are no longer any weekly heating additions to help pay for extra heating expenses , but extra weekly amounts called premiums may be paid on top of income support to people with special needs . |
| 14 | Where can I get erm , where can I get erm a pink to do the lattice on top of mince pies from . |
| 15 | Novel approaches to funding will include photographs taken of products , company flags or banners , on top of Mount Everest for ‘ a price to be negotiated , probably in the hundreds of pounds ’ . |
| 16 | Main pic : on top of Mount Robert at 4,630ft . |
| 17 | Albert Tarr was lying half on top of Mrs. Thomas between the rails . |
| 18 | The Ibrox club 's prospects of staying on top of Group A of the European Champions League with Marseille had , before the full-back 's 70th-minute goal , looked bleak as a consequence of two contentious decisions by the Polish referee . |
| 19 | Mrs Rowling hoped to arrange the meetings on behalf of church groups in the town . |
| 20 | The block vote makes terrible television , as millions of votes are marshalled on behalf of union members with little or no loyalty to the party . |
| 21 | committee and that on behalf of West Sussex as a whole , we should grasp that responsibility , make it clear and I 'm not talking about the emergency arrangements which we 're coping with quite adequately it seems to me erm but I 'm talking about the coordination and overview of all the er contributing factors erm so that we can demonstrate that there is ultimately one body who can take er a view of these matters er ensure that there are not grey areas in future and to er initiate er action wherever it may be dealt with necessary . |
| 22 | " a petition subscribed by I 00 inhabitants of Stockport on behalf of Daniel Leech to be readmitted to the schoolmaster 's place , whereof he was in possession , but by indirect ways he was thence unduly ejected . " |
| 23 | It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area . |
| 24 | Carter had already excavated on behalf of Lord Amherst in the 1890s , but it was during his period with Lord Carnarvan that he made his most spectacular and significant finds , digging at Thebes and in the Valley of the Kings . |
| 25 | Russell Reynolds also handled the celebrated search on behalf of Lord Keith of Beecham which resulted in the appointment of Bob Bauman , then one of the most highly-paid CEOs in Britain on a £1m. salary . |
| 26 | Salisbury Group sent 280 appeal letters on behalf of child victims of human rights abuses . |
| 27 | ‘ in his opinion there was evidence to show that there had been serious breaches of the Lautro Rules in respect of the business conducted on behalf of Norwich Union by Winchester . |
| 28 | After a short while Mr. Wells felt able to tell the Chief Executive Officer of Lautro that ‘ in his opinion there was evidence to show that there had been serious breaches of the Lautro Rules in respect of the business conducted on behalf of Norwich Union by Winchester . ’ |
| 29 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 30 | The true test , however , was the secret mission on behalf of President Bush to Beijing in the month after the massacre , undisclosed until a second trip was revealed in December . |