Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allows little opportunity for self-actualization on the part of the majority of organizational members ( those in the lower occupational strata ) . |
| 2 | Despite the advantages of the best Unix systems , however , and the enhancements coming with Solaris 2.0 and OSF/1 , Brown reckons the window of opportunity for Unix on the commercial desktop will shut within two years . |
| 3 | He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank . |
| 4 | A decade ago yesterday , British Rail signed a million-pound contract for repairs on the Victorian Darlington Station 's roof . |
| 5 | This potential development value is therefore speculative , but until the individual owners are proved to be wrong in their assessments ( and how can this be done ? ) all owners of land having a potential value can make a case for compensation on the assumption that their particular pieces of land would in fact be chosen for development if planning restrictions were not imposed . |
| 6 | There is certainly a case for subsidy on the social railway , but I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree with the judgment of the previous Labour Government , who said that there was no case for subsidising inter-urban services , nor was there a social case for subsidy with regard to inter-city services . |
| 7 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 8 | However , these positive steps still did not add up to a radical new direction for farming on the scale that is needed . |
| 9 | People may smoke , drive at 80 miles an hour through fog on a motorway , go in for hang-gliding or rock climbing at the weekends . |
| 10 | At the Essex Forest Eyre in October 1634 , for example , the judges , after consulting with the Chief Justice of the King 's Bench and the Barons of the Exchequer , decided that there was no right of common of pasture for sheep on the forest wastes . |
| 11 | CONSIDERATION is being given by Powys ' highways department to providing a right turning lane for traffic on the A483 trunk road in Newtown , following concern expressed by Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council for the safety of pedestrians crossing the road between the Do It All superstore and the Safeways supermarket . |
| 12 | POLICE are hoping to help their search for a man who attacked a hotel doorman , leaving him in a coma , by broadcasting a plea for help on the BBC 's Crimewatch programme . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that President North intervened in the judicial progress with a plea for clemency on the grounds that Dr Proctor is too essential to the shaky economy of the United States to be executed . |
| 14 | This kind of property is capital and yields income through profit on the productive use of property . |
| 15 | Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class . |
| 16 | The holder is entitled to sell or supply alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises but not off the premises , when food and non-alcoholic beverages are also on sale . |
| 17 | It relates to places of entertainment such as cinemas , theatres , dance halls , and proprietary clubs and permits the sale or supply of liquor for consumption on the premises to persons frequenting them as an ancillary to the entertainment provided . |
| 18 | This portion of the curve is consistent with the idea that in normal driving levels of risk are low and that the increases in this level observed in most of this study correspond to levels still below the optimal level for performance on the memory task . |
| 19 | Rather than analysing ‘ social ’ history in isolation from political developments , as social historians are at times accused of doing , they have dwelt upon the interaction between popular experience and mentality , on the one hand , and the struggle for power on the other . |
| 20 | E-mail is automatically date stamped on receipt so the order of responses or interaction between accounts on the network is indisputable . |
| 21 | Long-term unemployed claimants who work for ‘ Benefit Plus ’ receive benefits plus a top-up award for involvement on a job creation scheme , similar to the American Workfare projects . |
| 22 | The expansion of building for owner-occupation on the other hand is normal ; it reflects a long-term social advance which should gradually pervade every region . |
| 23 | Commentators are a maligned lot and deserve some credit for disseminating enthusiasm for sport on a hitherto unimagined scale . |
| 24 | Sir George Calvert , a politician at the Stuart court , had already shown his interest in colonization by trying to found a settlement in the Avalon district of Newfoundland , though this had failed partly because of the climate and partly because of the opposition of the fishermen who came from England every summer to use it as a base for fishing on the Grand Banks . |
| 25 | EIGHT Darlington nuns face a gruelling sea journey and a 1,000 kilometre trek through desert on an epic journey to Africa . |
| 26 | Lord Tucker observed : ‘ I do not question that such a drastic step [ closure of the factory ] … may be required on the part of a reasonably prudent employer if the peril to his employees is sufficiently grave , and to this extent it must always be a question of degree , but , in my view , there was no evidence in the present case which could justify a finding of negligence for failure on the part of the respondents to take this step . ’ |
| 27 | * Look for ideas on the shelves and in the catalogue of your library , in bibliographies , in anthologies and also in bookshops and publishers ' catalogues ( see p. 38 ) . |
| 28 | Even in a system dominated by the class cleavage , there is no necessity for people on the same side of the cleavage living in different places to favour the same political party . |
| 29 | THE GWILI RAILWAY has recently taken delivery of a Great Western Railway horse box body , which is to be restored to its former glory for use on the railway . |
| 30 | As Premchaud ( 1983 , p.207 ) states : ‘ the responsibility for decisions on the totality of public expenditure was divided between central or local governments and nationalised industries ’ . |