Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , registering shareware means you often save up to 50% on the price of buying a similar package from a computer shop . |
| 2 | If the transferred employee insists on moving into bigger or more ‘ up market ’ accommodation , the excess mortgage allowance is based on the price of housing comparable with that owned in the old area . |
| 3 | It is clear that all participants in the planning process will require information , although of different types , and the amount required by each level will depend on the type of planning management . |
| 4 | The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment . |
| 5 | be at least 35 years of age on the date of making application |
| 6 | The two exiles fall in together and set out on the adventure of becoming a suburban couple . |
| 7 | With the Rule of St Benedict ( c. 550 ) , supremely , the monastic community was launched on the road of catering for ordinary people rather than a spiritual élite . |
| 8 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 9 | The research draws upon existing statistical studies of patenting activity , work on the history of patenting and on recent theories of technological innovation . |
| 10 | V. G. Kiernan 's recent book on the history of duelling — the work of a historian who is able to grasp , as many historians now are not , that the literature of the past is evidence of the past — discusses Lermontov 's real and imaginary duels . |
| 11 | With chapters on the history of ballooning , record breaking flights and mad , mad , balloonists , all the intricacies of hot air balloons . |
| 12 | These will be used initially for displays of work by pupils of Frome Art College and displays giving information on the history of shopping in Frome and special events and attractions in town . |
| 13 | Leaving her chair , she went to the kitchen and set the kettle to boil for a warm drink , while her thoughts drifted back to what had started her on the trail of looking back . |
| 14 | Activity is dependent on the presence of reducing agent and shows no requirement for divalent cations ( data not shown ) . |
| 15 | Er land should be distributed by taking village as a single unit , that should be distributed in a unified manner according to the population therein based on the principle of allotting the land to its present tiller and making necessary readjustments in land held by taking into consideration the amount , the quality and location of land . |
| 16 | For the buyers in the labour market operated on the principle of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest , though sometimes ignorant of proper cost-accounting methods . |
| 17 | And they seem to work on the principle of allowing each other to do anything they like . |
| 18 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 19 | In Re Hopper ( 1867 ) LR 2 QB 367 , Lord Cockburn CJ said that a judicial inquiry was conducted on the principle of hearing the parties and the evidence of their witnesses . |
| 20 | Therefore , many hotels work on the principle of accepting a percentage more reservations than there is accommodation available . |
| 21 | The ability to call a strike without a ballot was provided by the result of a 1981 ballot on the principle of fighting pit closures ( where the grounds were economic ; the NUM was prepared to accept closures if they agreed that the pits were ‘ worked out ’ ) . |
| 22 | He compared the legal systems of different societies , and showed that they varied according to how many laws were based on the principle of repression , and how many on the principle of restoring the situation to what it had previously been ( restitution ) . |
| 23 | These UPSs work on the principle of interposing a rechargeable bank of batteries in the mains supply , between the power socket and the electrical device . |
| 24 | Both types work on the principle of swelling up at high temperatures to produce a ‘ charred ’ foam coating which so insulates and protects the member from heat that the temperature of the metal remains well below that of the fire . |
| 25 | study bearing directly on memory for events at the tactical level , ‘ waking up ’ with no recollection of the previous road , however , is a rather more striking possibility and appears to be related to phenomena which have recently attracted interest in the literature on the psychology of driving . |
| 26 | Eikmeyer ( 1989 ) , in a paper from a conference on coherence , points out that reader interpretation depends on the depth of understanding the reader requires . |
| 27 | At that same January meeting , Maritz tried to sell Sun on the notion of porting Windows NT to its Sparc RISC . |
| 28 | In contrast to make , which focusses essentially on the notion of producing an effect , force explicitly evokes the means used to bring about the realization of this effect , namely force , and so refers to something prior to the effect 's coming into being . |
| 29 | The importance that structuralism in general and Barthes in particular place on the notion of writing both supports structuralism 's challenge to traditional ways of talking about literature , and questions a number of presuppositions of the discourse of structuralism itself . |
| 30 | Research on crisis support invariably focuses on the notion of coping , but the complexity of this idea is not always reflected in intervention studies . |