Example sentences of "the [noun] of [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newly-elected councillor should welcome the opportunity of serving on these outside bodies for only by so doing can he obtain a full appreciation of the part which these bodies play in local administration . |
| 2 | The whole world had the opportunity of hearing on television what President Yeltsin thought . |
| 3 | More than that , it gave him the opportunity of laying on the grass at lunchtime , trying to catch sight of Lana Turner 's legs … |
| 4 | I jumped at the opportunity of travelling on her . |
| 5 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 6 | It gives them the opportunity of working on a real live project er which actually has an end point and is going to be used . |
| 7 | This can be taken either as a criticism of the actual teaching of the subject or as a remark on the ineffectiveness of schooling on such attitudes in the Northern Ireland context . |
| 8 | He said that those last three sets of words ‘ point rather more clearly than does section 1 in the direction of running on business-like or commercial lines ’ . |
| 9 | Bem ( 1979a ) suggests that paying more attention to the patterns of scoring on BSRl femininity and masculinity subscales might produce a more detailed understanding of the power which particular sex-associated traits have for women and men . |
| 10 | Explain that you would need time to make a thorough assessment of the situation and would be aware of the dangers of treading on other people 's toes . |
| 11 | The dangers of overtaking on high speed single carriageways are well known . |
| 12 | To highlight the dangers of playing on building sites the Yorkshire Region and Laing North East teamed up to hold a ‘ Playsafe ’ competition recently . |
| 13 | She had hardly been in the country a month when she had the privilege of speaking on TV during a midnight service from George Square , Glasgow , on Christmas Eve . |
| 14 | I and my colleague here have the pleasure and the privilege of serving on a vast majority of a Liberal Democrat erm local authority . |
| 15 | I 'm paying seventy-five dollars a week to American Actors ’ Equity just for the privilege of acting on stage here . |
| 16 | Ken said that many performers ought to pay managements for the privilege of working on the stage . |
| 17 | Not always were Cusick 's warnings ignored by Directors , as in the case of working on Episode One of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ with John Gorrie . |
| 18 | But it does have the advantage of operating on a level where guilt or innocence might be easier to establish and where punishment could be imposed on a state basis . |
| 19 | The imperial presence was manifest : those who attended had the advantage of travelling on the imperial transport system ; the structure of the Council mirrored that of senatorial procedure , the 318 fathers ( a traditional number — actual attendance was more likely to have been about 250 ) gathered in a hall of the imperial palace ; Constantine spoke asking them to restore concord , and then left them to themselves . |
| 20 | Taking positive action and pleasing ourselves helps to capitalise on the advantage of retiring on our own . |
| 21 | After the experience of working on this table I would say that this is absolute rot . |
| 22 | Tyne & Wear Development Corp in the UK is using a specially adapted version of the Superscape virtual reality software from Aldermaston , Berkshire-based Dimension International Ltd to enable planners and the public to ‘ walk through ’ its £180m redevelopment scheme for the City of Newcastle Upon Tyne 's East Quayside : Newcastle-based Real Time Design Ltd , which is implementing the system , has already created the base landscape and a few of the proposed buildings in the virtual world , and will continue to add new ones based on architects drawings and computer aided design-generated images ; using the system , it will be possible to simulate , in real time , the experience of driving on the roads between the new buildings , ensuring that the Tyne Bridge is visible at some locations . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate the difficulty of moving on people who lead a nomadic lifestyle when there is nowhere to move them to . |
| 24 | Well it 's hard to know where to stop , really erm I mean the , the difficulty of concentrating on one area of the country , is that we 're of course I think there must be very great differences in different areas of the country . |
| 25 | Some of the reasons for this — the difficulty of deciding on appropriate proxy variables and on economical yet non-biasing temporal and spatial sampling frameworks , taking account of the relative importance of aperiodic and rare events as compared to near-continuous processes , processing the vast volumes of data usually involved and organizing the multidisciplinary and ( often ) multinational researchers involved — are discussed briefly later . |
| 26 | It is legendary that actuarial training is rigorous and difficult , but it is this depth of training which enables actuaries to take on the responsibility of advising on the financing of future payments involving billions of pounds for insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 27 | As Chairman of the National Curriculum English Working Group I was given the responsibility of deciding on programmes of study for all children from 5 to 16 , of putting right what I regarded as a major omission in the Kingman Report . |
| 28 | The West is considering further sanctions in the hope of piling on the economic agony in Serbia , where inflation has hit 28,000 per cent . |
| 29 | Gómez and Lloreda opposed extradition , favouring dialogue with the drug cartels in the hope of capitalizing on a perceived public weariness with the drug war . |
| 30 | Tim was taller and broader and he leaned towards the old man like a creature caught in the instant of springing on its quarry . |