Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will examine the main determinants of international production and foreign direct investment and how these have changed over the last 50 years ; the way in which decisions are taken within multi-national enterprises ; the changing forms of international involvement , and the impact of the activities of MNEs on the home and host economies in which they operate . |
| 2 | In addition to the activities of members on the floor of the House or in the parties , there has been an attempt to restore or increase the influence of the Commons by adopting new procedures , most of which involve the development of a new committee system . |
| 3 | Throughout the 1650s , extreme restrictions were placed upon the activities of individuals on Sundays ; a strict Puritan sabbath was imposed , and all working , sports , and non-essential travel were made illegal . |
| 4 | Fujimori announced on June 23 the capture of three Sendero Luminoso central committee members , Yovanka Pardave Trujillo , Víctor García Castano and Tito Valle Travesano , a former president of the Association of Democratic Lawyers specializing in the defence of detainees on terrorist charges . |
| 5 | Membership : 19 countries with the addition of Angola on Aug. 14 , 1990 [ see p. 37569 for other 18 ] . |
| 6 | The majority of work on structural semantics has remained philosophical or at best highly theoretical , and has inspired few computational implementations . |
| 7 | The majority of players on both sides have had no competitive cricket since the World Cup . |
| 8 | By far the majority of life on Earth , indeed , is underpinned by plants , which have evolved the trick of tapping solar power by photosynthesis ; or at least , have borrowed that trick from bacteria . |
| 9 | Whilst accepting that this is an oversimplification of a process that includes a sophisticated method of calculating relative costs ( ie the weighted factors ) , it nonetheless indicated how the further education process could be improved , assuming that Colleges could enhance their income level once the majority of constraints on local operations were removed . |
| 10 | Indeed , the formula for the majority of comedy on television remains as it was before a ragged man struggled along the seashore , collapsed and panted seemingly with his last breath : ‘ It 's … ’ |
| 11 | This is so also for children , so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets . |
| 12 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 13 | The results-seen and heard by the majority of Teesside on TV , radio and the newspapers — proved the journalists had been genuinely impressed by the work of the laboratory . |
| 14 | that the shop stewards would reply to Michael Taylor 's memo to all staff expressing the anger and disappointment of the Union at the manner in which the decision was made , disregarding the strength of feeling of the majority of staff on this issue ; |
| 15 | He then handed business a plum : the majority of seats on each board will be held by business representatives . |
| 16 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 17 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 18 | The first example describes , and because it does not comment , appears to legitimise the hierarchical organisation of labour in offices , with the majority of workers on lower pay than the minority . |
| 19 | A calculated campaign of domination over the media , and other major information outlets , has ensured that the perception of the recent events documented in the following pages never reaches the majority of people on this planet . |
| 20 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 21 | but the majority of people on a Tuesday night are going for a leisurely swim are n't they ? |
| 22 | It is used in the majority of microcomputers on sale in Britain . |
| 23 | In particular , several scientists supported a hypothesis put forward by John Woods , senior marine scientist at the UK Natural Environmental Research Council ( NERC ) , who suggested ( in a paper presented to the British Association for the Advancement of Science on Sept. 14 ) that the ability of ocean plankton to absorb CO2 could fall drastically once temperatures began to rise . |
| 24 | Le Grand , for example , insists that for egalitarian policies to succeed , ‘ it is necessary to reduce the hold of the ideology of inequality on people 's values and beliefs and this can only be done by challenging the factual underpinnings of that ideology . ’ |
| 25 | Before the passing of the 1980 Act certain decisions of this court , in particular Wallis ' Cayton Bay Holiday Camp Ltd v Shellmex and BP Ltd [ 1974 ] 3 All ER 575 and Gray v Wykeham-Martin [ 1977 ] CA Transcript 10A were thought to have established a general doctrine that in one special type of case there would be implied in favour of the would-be adverse possessor , without any specific factual basis for such implication , a licence permitting him to commit the acts of possession on which he sought to rely ; the effect of implying such a licence would , of course , be to prevent the squatter 's possession from being " adverse " . |
| 26 | Cranston stopped a beadle in his blue cloak , the shield of office on his breast and long staff tapping the paving stones proclaiming his sense of importance . |
| 27 | A variety of statistical techniques have been employed to relate the attitudes of judges on general political issues , such as the desirability of government intervention and the importance of individual as opposed to governmental rights , to their decisions in substantive cases . |
| 28 | Kamikamica announced a 20 per cent cut in income tax and the reduction of duties on a wide range of goods in recognition of the satisfactory performance of the economy . |
| 29 | The Safety Management System is a simple to follow 200 page manual , which hopefully will benefit Dounreay for many years to come and contribute to the reduction of accidents on site . ’ |
| 30 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |