Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] of [noun pl] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second of these choices was the one that most feminists adopted , and as a result the next decade was marked by an increasing self-confidence on the part of feminists about their place in philosophy . |
| 2 | A certain narrow-mindedness has pervaded studies of electronic information as the focus has been predominately by national archives on the preservation of records about the national governments themselves . |
| 3 | The use that will be made of the online information retrieval systems depends in part on the education of users about the availability and functioning of this method of information retrieval . |
| 4 | This is argued on the basis of assumptions about the behaviour of ‘ bureaucrats ’ who are unable to operate by making profits from the services they provide as entrepreneurs do in the private sector . |
| 5 | Statements of what people intended to get out of the policy-making process are generally something that has to be established on the basis of careful examination of the evidence rather than on the basis of assumptions about interests . |
| 6 | The most recent , from the Institute of Directors , firmly opposed ’ any system of levy or tax that discriminates between employers on the basis of assumptions about what a firm spends on training ’ . |
| 7 | Despite his strange dealings in the transfer market up to now , I 'm still one of the pro-Wilko group , and I 'm not going to start slagging him off on the basis of rumours about what he might conceivably do . |
| 8 | Practically , this is ensured by the governments being composed of parties which have to compete for votes at elections , on the basis of promises about what they will do if they get back into government next time . |
| 9 | On the basis of calculations about what local and national inspectors could manage by way of inspections , Becher et al ( 1979 ) go further and conclude that , ‘ It therefore becomes hard to see inspection becoming a routine form of accountability without at least doubling the number of inspectors ’ . |
| 10 | To extrapolate what they might say about women 's experience under patriarchy on the basis of comments about the reading material they choose is quite a leap . |
| 11 | Major , addressing the Welsh Conservative Party conference on June 14 , dismissed those " sulking on the fringe of talks about the destiny of Europe " and declared that " the British government and the British parliament would only move to a single currency if they took a further , separate and explicit decision to do so , not just when to do so but whether to do so at all " . |
| 12 | The only parts of this procedure that are not immediately susceptible to practical implementation are those that rely on the assumption of facts about expressions . |
| 13 | June : June 1 : Bessmertnykh and Baker announced in Lisbon agreement in principle on the resolution of disputes about the CFE treaty ; June 5 : President Gorbachev in Oslo accepted the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize and called for active and practical Western support for perestroika and glasnost ; June 11 : it was reported that Soviet-Cuban trade , halted because of Cuba 's hard currency shortage , would be continued on a barter basis ; June 11 : it was reported that the rouble could become domestically convertible on Jan. 1 , 1992 ; June 19-20 : Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , had two days of talks in Moscow on Soviet-EC co-operation ; June 19 : the last Soviet soldier left Hungary . |
| 14 | We can no longer smugly claim that literary criticism is concerned only with ‘ the best ’ expression of the period , because what is best is dependent on a host of preconceptions about what we wish to learn about Renaissance writing . |
| 15 | In itself the Beveridge structure rested on a set of assumptions about employment and family allowances which could not be planned for and might easily have proved disastrously misplaced . |
| 16 | ‘ a system of ideas and practices based on a set of beliefs about heterosexuality being the normal and natural sexuality for both women and men , and all other sexual practices , in particular homosexuality , being deviant . |
| 17 | This was done very effectively in the late seventies in campaigns by Whitbread , who ran a series of ads asking for public comments on a number of propositions about the law affecting pubs and licensing ; and subsequently by the major banks , who ran a joint campaign partly designed to deter the threat of nationalization — a campaign which attracted many thousands of replies from the public . |
| 18 | Our planning of an appropriate induction course for the French and German teachers is based on a number of assumptions about what they already have and what they lack : |
| 19 | Sir Hilary " Hal " Miller , a senior Conservative MP , told the House that he had acted on behalf of WS during the past few years , and had warned the DTI , the Defence Ministry and an unidentified " third agency " on a number of occasions about suspicious Iraqi orders . |
| 20 | Some more drastic solutions than those discussed above have been proposed , although , as Moseley ( 1979b ) argues , they are based on a number of myths about rural mobility . |
| 21 | The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts . |
| 22 | For that reason , he volunteered to look after Ron Martz , of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , and his ‘ primary assistant ’ , Lloyd Burchette , when they arrived in Nicosia at the invitation of the DEA to work on a series of reports about international drug trafficking . |
| 23 | Since I was n't in a position to return the Parsons ' hospitality , I felt an obligation to provide conversational value for money , so I embarked on a series of anecdotes about my time abroad , some true , all exaggerated , a few plain invention . |
| 24 | He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets . |