Example sentences of "on [noun sg] and [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as verifying centres ' assessments , our verifiers offer support and advice on assessment and other topics during their visits . |
| 2 | The government on Jan. 17 abolished controls on steel prices and drastically reduced duties on scrap and steel-billet imports in an effort to boost domestic output . |
| 3 | The article ‘ Scientists disagree and the seal hunt goes on ’ ( This Week , 2 December , p 547 ) distorts the recent report by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ( ICES ) on harp and hooded seals in the north-west Atlantic . |
| 4 | The colonists in North America were encouraged to partake of the new refreshment but were taxed on tea and other imports from 1765 onwards , which led to a trade in tea smuggling from Holland to avoid the taxes . |
| 5 | Central government departments are expected , alternatively , to comply with the provisions of Government Accounting : a Guide on Accounting and Financial Procedures for the Use of Government Departments . |
| 6 | This form is laid down in Government Accounting a Guide on Accounting and Financial Procedures for the Use of Government Departments issued by H.M. |
| 7 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 8 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 9 | Blossom on blackthorn and great banks of bluebells . |
| 10 | The council 's curriculum working-party on lesbian and gay issues in education produced a thoughtful and well-researched document , Mirrors Round The Walls — Reflecting Diversity , which received none of the media interest experienced by the earlier misinformation . |
| 11 | Norway and the Soviet Union agreed on Dec. 15 , 1989 , on the terms of a treaty providing for an exchange of information on civilian and military accidents at sea outside their territorial waters . |
| 12 | Complete the research project directed at reducing waste materials on site and improving arrangements for recycling , and publish results.PS |
| 13 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 14 | The UK government welcomed the release and expressed the hope that it would be followed by the release of a British businessman , Ian Richter ) , sentenced to life imprisonment on bribery and economic charges in 1986 . |
| 15 | The six leaders agreed that ASEAN should intensify debate on security and political issues through the mechanism of the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conferences ( PMC ) . |
| 16 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 17 | On July 19 the Japanese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs , Muneo Suzuki , said during the first official government visit to South Africa since 1969 that Japan was considering lifting economic sanctions , having lifted its ban on tourism and non-economic sanctions in June [ see p. 38270 ] . |
| 18 | This chapter contains summaries of the principal findings and recommendations of some of the major official reports on education and related topics from 1944 until the present day . |
| 19 | Leaving aside Fox Talbot 's 1835 picture of a lattice window , Niepce 's earlier experiments in France , Daguerre 's pictures on metal and other examples of ‘ fixing an image ’ as a one-off , the earliest photographs in our sense date from the 1840s . |
| 20 | The government has made minor cuts on welfare and some changes of a largely symbolic nature . |
| 21 | The result may transform black American films into a two-tier system , with commercially successful directors on top and independent film-makers at the bottom , scrambling for scarce money . |
| 22 | At Galerie Berndt , thirteen works on paper and two objects by Meret Oppenheim are exhibited from early June until the end of July . |
| 23 | This was clearly shown in Case 28/84 Commission v. Germany , where the animal foodstuffs directives , which , as mentioned in the previous paragraph , had been held not to preclude health inspections under national law , were found to create a comprehensive system with regard to the composition and preparation of animal foodstuffs , so that Germany could not lay down its own rules on minimum and maximum levels of certain ingredients . |
| 24 | Peasants told his collaborators that under NEP conditions not even the poorest received financial help and advice on sowing and agricultural methods from the local Soviets , as they had done previously , during the period of War Communism . |
| 25 | This community occurs in pastures on better-drained and base-poor soils in north-west Britain and mostly at low altitudes . |
| 26 | Radio 4 roadshow consisting of light entertainment , a ‘ higher education and society ’ debate and a talk on news and current affairs by Brian Redhead . |
| 27 | Since then , he has won the world singles three times outdoors and three times indoors , four Commonwealth gold medals , a Commonwealth fours gold , a world indoor triples gold , six world indoor pairs golds and 26 national titles , the singles six times on grass and nine times on carpet . |
| 28 | For more information on Manufacturing and Industrial Applications of Computers tick box SER90 on the coupon ; for information on other packs tick box ITU90 . |
| 29 | Use picture and context cues , words recognised on sight and phonic cues in reading . |
| 30 | The final focus is on gender and gender-related structures of both media and society . |