Example sentences of "on an [noun sg] of the " in BNC.

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1 Given this limitation therefore , one has to rely on an interpretation of the relationships between the mosaics themselves .
2 The party considerations , in this as in so many other aspects of local government reorganisation , seemed to have been based more on an assessment of the past rather than on considerations for the future .
3 The Chair 's decision will be based on an assessment of the student 's academic suitability and on the estimated size of the Stage II group .
4 The Soviet and American interest in schemes for regional neutralisation , like their promotion of the neutralisation of disputed states , is likely , however , to depend on an assessment of the regional balance or ‘ correlation ’ of political and military forces and interests in each case .
5 In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail .
6 The decision to accept ordinary shares may therefore often depend on an assessment of the economic situation , the company 's gearing level , its capacity for growth and its ability to service its debt .
7 That is , the emphasis is on an element of the propositional content of the utterance .
8 The project was designed to develop and evaluate a radically new French language course and teaching method for university and polytechnic students in final honours , based on an adaptation of the ‘ communicative ’ methodology .
9 With this Virtual Target Capability application code can be developed without a target , as the code can be run on the host processor or switched to run on an emulation of the target node .
10 It is very difficult to muster a cogent argument against the landlord 's request for guarantors either on the grant of a lease or on an assignment of the lease where a corporate tenant or corporate assignee has either recently been established or is a concern of limited substance .
11 An important premise of this book is that people 's actions are socially constrained , although not socially determined ; people make decisions which are based on an awareness of the potentialities and limitations of certain courses of action .
12 Courses in the technologies and the professions may encourage action but , again , is it always action based on an awareness of the alternatives , their value positions and their social consequences ?
13 The two have jointly developed an Open Computing environment for MIPS Platform , OCMP , specification based on an expansion of the MIPS applications binary interface developed by Unix System Laboratories Inc and announced by the M-SIG special interest group at this year 's UniForum .
14 Jennifer Kerr worked on an evaluation of the management programme for headteachers .
15 So much so , that attempts were made — unsuccessfully — to make the 1988 package of expanded capital availability offered by the Bank of Japan conditional on an easing of the perceived unreasonableness of the Malaysian authorities .
16 Asger Jorn 's interest in folk cultures and tribal societies which lacked a notion of ‘ art ’ as a distinct intellectual practice separated from the common culture , was based on an understanding of the extent to which the spheres of art and work have become conflicting practices within bourgeois relations of production .
17 Development will come , he says , but built on an understanding of the forest and not a brutal sacking of its riches .
18 It allows the most sensitive care to be practised , because it rests on an understanding of the realities of terminal illness and care .
19 The answer to this question depends on an understanding of the role that intention played in the interpretation of civil-law dispositions .
20 Individual care is based on an understanding of the social , psychological and physical condition of the patient .
21 This type of reasoning is based on an understanding of the underlying physical principles and the relationships between system components .
22 Each album benefited from and enlarged on an understanding of the others .
23 In this sense the picture of the housewife which emerges in the present study not only bears on an understanding of the situation of women in society today ; it also illuminates one face of urban family life .
24 This has to be based on an understanding of the code of ethics , working to an agreed code of practice and so on , and Ann will be saying more on this .
25 It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift .
26 The assessment of the relative " equities " of the parties depends on an understanding of the geology of the site and the engineering technicalities of extracting the oil and/or gas , and the application to that information of an agreed method of calculation .
27 A FAT little plumber called Mario caused chaos yesterday as thousands of youngsters converged on an exhibition of the latest high-tech games .
28 There are unlikely to be many more than four situations in which the defendant 's case will rest on an application of the decision in Morgan , because his belief in consent was honest , though unreasonable .
29 The support and guidance of ‘ real ’ employers on the boards of mini enterprise schemes can be helpful ; the advice of professionals about equipment purchase , attendance-pattern of trainees , syllabus choice or , even , staff recruitment can all be derived from an active and effective pattern of Governors ' Advisory Committees ; industrial or commercial figures on governing bodies can give a helpful perspective ; one-off lectures or presentations on an aspect of the business world can enhance a course — but all these examples depend for their success on agreed objectives .
30 Before that , in 1963 , I had published my first article — also on an aspect of the language of advertising .
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