Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] on an " in BNC.
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| 1 | TENANTS living in council owned sheltered accommodation could be allowed to keep their pets without having to apply for permission on an annual basis.Uttlesford District Council has allowed tenants to keep a pet dog or cat , but until now only on a temporary basis.For the past two years , tenants have had to apply annually for permission to keep a pet under the council 's rules . |
| 2 | Judgment creditors may apply on notice for increase in instalments , or for payment on an earlier date , and this is also determined by the district judge ; if the judgment creditor seeks extended payment , or smaller instalments , he writes to the court and the proper officer simply makes the new order . |
| 3 | To qualify for engagement on an Employment Action scheme applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 59 and have been registered as unemployed for at least six months . |
| 4 | To qualify for engagement on an Employment Action scheme applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 59 and have been registered as unemployed for at least six months . |
| 5 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 6 | That afternoon the passport was delivered to the Soviet Embassy for renewal on an emergency application . |
| 7 | Najibullah was replaced as President on an acting basis by Abdorrahim Hatef , hitherto one of four Vice-Presidents . |
| 8 | In appropriate cases after service on an individual partner the acknowledgment may contain a denial that the person served was a partner at the date of the accrual of the cause of action or at any other material time . |
| 9 | For example , the code ( ESC ) A 8 will set the spacing between lines on an Epson-compatible printer to inch . |
| 10 | EIGHT Darlington nuns face a gruelling sea journey and a 1,000 kilometre trek through desert on an epic journey to Africa . |
| 11 | One of these is none other than Caccini 's celebrated ‘ Amarilli ’ , in which Nauwach inserted ‘ passages ’ more suggestive of fingers on an instrument than vocal ornamentation , with the necessary additional bits of continuo bass . |
| 12 | The interviewer is seeking to interview a sample of housewives on an estate about , let us say , the work-day pattern of wives who work only within the home . |
| 13 | The controlled trial compared duration of remission on an elimination diet ( n=10 ) with that on an unrefined carbohydrate , fibre rich diet ( n=10 ) . |
| 14 | Similarly , of 16 species of Chitonomyces on an aquatic beetle ( gyrinid beetles ) six were seen only on males and nine were limited to females . |
| 15 | An alternative way of examining harmonic distortion is to display the total spectrum of frequencies on an oscilloscope ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 16 | I believe that the Minister will soon come to the London borough of Newham on an official visit to hear about our arts policy . |
| 17 | And definitely not with several days ' growth of beard on an aggressively masculine jaw , or with so much … so much compelling strength in his face , in his ice-blue eyes . |
| 18 | It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . |
| 19 | Always avoid doing too many new things in one flight ; i.e. do not fly a new type of aircraft on an unfamiliar airfield . |
| 20 | A BRANCH of Harrods on an industrial estate was closed when locals objected to an invasion of the Knightsbridge set . |
| 21 | The ANC announced on Oct. 22 that a high-level meeting had been arranged with the leadership of Inkatha on an unspecified date . |
| 22 | It will do so through the collection of a new body of data on an area of public policy which will contribute to our understanding of : — UK science and technology policy ; — European collaboration in science and technology ; — UK relations with Europe , at the time of the first attempt to join the Common Market ; — UK relations with the USA , in an area of military as well as civil significance ; the development of space launcher and satellite industry . |
| 23 | The behaviour of trajectories on an attractor that exhibits sensitivity to initial conditions is strange and unexpected , and the geometry of such an attractor is often strange and complicated . |
| 24 | RIGHT The use of Electronic Distance Measurement ( EDM ) is a very accurate method of undertaking surveys and of establishing the precise location of finds on an excavation . |
| 25 | A little bit of revision on an old topic . |
| 26 | Strategic issues are discussed at all levels of management on an as-and-when-needed basis . |
| 27 | If the current share price is 8.80 , what is the equilibrium rate of return on an investment in the shares of this firm ? |
| 28 | ( The rate of return on an additional investment is sometimes called the marginal efficiency of investment or MEI . ) |
| 29 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 30 | were written in this way , because erm there was a move from a certain part of the organization to exclude the Q Ss from elements of work on an unreasonable to an unreasonable extent . |