Example sentences of "on the [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , by virtue of being on the rota of solicitors , the advocate has undergone self-evaluation whereby he indicates publicly that he is competent to deal with criminal matters . |
| 2 | He emphasised that in dismissing McCrory 's application for judicial review he was not imposing a ban on the wearing of poppies in prison . |
| 3 | The policies did not develop on the terrain of racism , however , but under the sign of culture . |
| 4 | Michael Lee checked the address on the scrap of paper and then the name plate pinned high to the wall of the tenement . |
| 5 | Its huge eyes fell on the scrap of paper on the floor . |
| 6 | The city provost and his marshals became more organised , clamping down more ruthlessly on the legion of thieves which flourished in the slums around the Rue Saint Antoine . |
| 7 | During the second World War , Haworth took a completely different scientific route , working on the purification of uranium metal . |
| 8 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 9 | The funniest moment came after I 'd read out a letter about a young couple who were getting married at St Luke 's Parish Church in Charlton , let's say at 2 o'clock on the whatsit of May . |
| 10 | Or was she relying on the unlikelihood of Tom 's being able to defend his own corner effectively ? |
| 11 | Thus in the same building as the photographs of SS officers selecting the Jews on the ramps of Birkenau are news pictures of British paratroopers ordering the concentration camp survivors away from postwar Palestine . |
| 12 | Harrison and Mehta are more convincing when they argue that one precondition for a long-term settlement in Afghanistan based on a stricter interpretation of non-alignment could be a broad Great Power or regional understanding on the neutralisation of Southwest Asia . |
| 13 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 14 | While the Soviet side presented views on ensuring security in Asia on a collective basis the Malaysians ‘ acquainted the Soviet side with the essence of the proposal on the neutralisation of Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 15 | In autumn 1981 France associated itself instead with the EEC initiative on the neutralisation of Afghanistan . |
| 16 | You may also be able to store your notes on the equivalent of index cards on a computer ( in a database , or in word-processing document files ) . |
| 17 | What 's your guess on the invasion of France ? |
| 18 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 19 | Everyone 's guide to tulips , daffodils and lilies ; August 1 Focusing on the splendour of camellias , rhododendrons and magnolias ; |
| 20 | Editors have naturally concentrated on sources closest to Bach , but there is in the more peripheral ones a wealth of information about the origin and reworking of pieces , as well as performance practice ( notably fingerings and ornaments ) for which musical sources can shed light on specific details in a way more generalized literary documents rarely can ; and on the estimation of Bach 's music by his contemporaries and immediate successors . |
| 21 | The overestimation of estimated risk is at first sight surprising , both because the common assumption that an underestimation of true risk might be a major cause of road accidents ( e.g. Evans , 1991 , ‘ among the factors contributing to drivers ’ speed choice is a systematic underestimation of the probability that they will be killed ’ , p.152 ) and on the basis of previous research on the estimation of risks . |
| 22 | The Doppler effect is an example of the effect of the movement of a radiating body on the wavelength of radiations . |
| 23 | This is followed by a report on the construction of lifeboats , then by one on the state of knowledge on radiant heat , again the third of a series , essentially reviewing recent work all over Europe ; then an account of the results of magnetic observations at observatories in the British colonies , another Humboldtian exercise ; a report on how Solar Radiations affect the Vital Powers of plants , grown under bell-glasses of various colours ; a catalogue of meteors ; a report on the surface of the Moon ; another on water-pressure machinery ; and reports on the equivalence of starch and sugar in food , on deviations of the compass in iron and wooden ships , and on the vitality of seeds . |
| 24 | Only those who were regarded as ‘ fit ’ could be trusted not to trade on the despair of people , at their wits end , reduced for the first time in their lives to seeking a loan . |
| 25 | No mention is made of the lateral road on the ridge of Busaco which was so carefully restored by Wellington and which played such a vital role in the successful conduct of the battle . |
| 26 | Of the famous Lavra Monastery on the ridge of hills overlooking the Dnieper river on the outskirts of Kiev little exists from Medieval building . |
| 27 | Christopher Tricky , seen struggling one day to remove an old tree stump near his hovel at the park gate , became , as has already been noted , the subject of ‘ Simon Lee , the Old Huntsman ’ ; a remark from Tom Poole led to ‘ The Idiot Boy ’ ; ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ told the story of a Holford shepherd found weeping in the road ; and ‘ The Thorn ’ was inspired by a weather-beaten hawthorn seen ‘ on the ridge of Quantock Hill ’ . |
| 28 | She climbed up beside him on the ridge of rock . |
| 29 | She could see them standing on the ridge of hill that rose up behind Tara 's eastern boundaries , sending out the strong magic of the Samhailt to their creatures , so that the woods and the streams and the hillsides thrummed and quivered with the Mindsong . |
| 30 | Councillors , who had grown up and learnt their politics in a labour movement founded on the dominance of Sheffield 's skilled workers in the steel and engineering industries , now had to formulate a response as this dominance quite literally crumbled to the ground . |