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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The majority of players on both sides have had no competitive cricket since the World Cup .
5 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 .
6 This is so also for children , so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets .
7 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 .
8 He then handed business a plum : the majority of seats on each board will be held by business representatives .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 It is used in the majority of microcomputers on sale in Britain .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 They included , in May , the legalization of private banking and the reduction of taxes on company profits from 89 per cent to 59 per cent in an attempt to encourage investment .
17 April : April 1 : Bessmertnykh discussed in Beijing measures to resolve Soviet-Chinese border disputes , and the reduction of troops on both sides of the border ; April 4 : Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki held talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Poland , the internal situation in both countries , and prospects for co-operation ; April 4 : Romanian President Iliescu arrived in Moscow to sign the Soviet-Romanian Treaty ; April 8-9 : Bessmertnykh , visiting Belgrade , supported the preservation of Yugoslavia 's territorial integrity ; April 8 : Viktor Komplektov named as new Soviet ambassador to the USA ; April 9-10 : Bessmertnykh had talks in Athens with Greek President Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation ; April 16-19 : President Gorbachev visited Japan , the first visit by a Soviet leader , and had a number of ( inconclusive ) discussions with Japanese officials about the fate of the disputed Kurile Islands — the main obstacle to a significant increase in the amount of Japanese aid and credits to the USSR ; April 17 : as part of a $3,000 million aid package agreed earlier in the year , the South Korean Export-Import bank signed an agreement giving the Soviet Union $800 million worth of credits to purchase South Korean raw materials and consumer goods .
18 It explores the rituals of fans on the way to the game as well as the organisation of the curva , a spectacle during the game between rival fans or tifosi .
19 Apply a bead of non-setting mastic all around the base of rebates on the timber subframe , and across the front sill platform
20 Another problem is the sheer eclecticism of progressive rock , both in terms of the variety of sources on which it drew and the range of styles contained within the genre .
21 And to us , whose country markets are rapidly vanishing , the extraordinary activity and the variety of foodstuffs on sale in a little town of only three thousands inhabitants like Duclair , so few miles away from Dover , has a particular fascination .
22 The peoples of many different countries have settled here and grafted their own cultures on Malaysia — observe the variety of influences on architecture and the cornucopia of festivals celebrated .
23 Before embarking on care proceedings a local authority should always consider whether it could improve the family situation sufficiently by the provision of services on a voluntary basis ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 3.11 ) .
24 Through the provision of contracts on admission , and ongoing reviews of each resident 's career in the Home , difficulties might be ironed out at an early stage .
25 Another area of voluntary activity is the provision of classes on preparation for retirement .
26 Electronics and electrical machines are included as important fields of study and the ever-increasing importance of computing is recognised by the provision of courses on computer applications in engineering and the integration of computing into design and laboratory projects .
27 With a reasonable amount of intelligent deduction and a good deal of luck they find the loot of churches on the Spanish Main hidden by the priest-turned-pirate Domingo Mugnoz .
28 The Court ruled that the case against the three , who had exercised their right not to give evidence at the trial , had been overwhelmingly prejudiced following an announcement by King during the trial of restrictions on the right of silence [ see p. 37098 ] .
29 The existence of controls on investment in the non-sterling area therefore probably had little restrictive effect [ Blackaby , 1978 ; Tew , 1982 ] .
30 They understood faith to be an assent of the mind as agreeable to reason as assenting to the existence of objects on a table .
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