Example sentences of "on [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , human peripheral blood neutrophils were smeared on eight well Nutacon slides and fixed in 96% ethanol ( 15 minutes 4°C ) . |
| 2 | The vault was supported on eight massive stone piers fronted by granite columns 38 feet high . |
| 3 | The course is based on eight self-contained case studies representing a realistic negotiation or decision-making meeting at managerial level . |
| 4 | In each context , the major international instrument is a Convention elaborated under the aegis of the Hague Conference on Private International Law ; these conventions have attracted the support of many of the States most involved in international trade , and other regional agreements have been heavily influenced by the Hague models . |
| 5 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 6 | The second session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law held in 1894 agreed a draft Convention on Civil Procedure which was signed on 14 November 1896 , the first of four Hague Conventions to deal with service of process . |
| 7 | After a good deal of further debate in the various Inter-American bodies , the General Assembly of the Organization of American States resolved in 1971 to convene an Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law ( CIDIP from its Spanish title , Conferencia Especializada Inter-Americana sobre Derecho Internacional Privado ) . |
| 8 | As a result , the United States delegation at the Second Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law ( CIDIP 2 ) , held in Montevideo in 1979 , secured the adoption of an Additional Protocol , limited to service of documents but containing a fuller treatment of that topic drawing inspiration from some aspects of the Hague Convention . |
| 9 | The Protocol was prepared by Committee I of the Second Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law , almost entirely on the basis of successive proposals from the United States ' delegation . |
| 10 | The revived Hague Conference on Private International Law renewed the Civil Procedure Convention in 1954 , but a full revision was not undertaken until 1964 . |
| 11 | Figure 4.1 shows the growth in spending on private acute care in cash and real terms ( after allowing for general price inflation ) between 1972 and 1989 . |
| 12 | There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) . |
| 13 | JOHN JAY ( ’ The fall-out from Labour ’ , March 29 ) correctly points out the shortsightedness of withdrawing tax relief on private medical insurance — but , by using figures from only one insurer , he has grossly underestimated the flaw in Labour 's arithmetic . |
| 14 | Include a clause in the Finance Bill abolishing tax relief on private medical insurance for the elderly , and invite bids from regional cancer centres for investing the savings . |
| 15 | We will also launch a new programme to invest £60 million in the modernisation of Britain 's cancer services , using the resources we will save by scrapping the Conservatives ' tax handout on private medical insurance . |
| 16 | People over the age of 60 are able to get tax relief on private medical insurance . |
| 17 | HOW MUCH IS SPENT ON PRIVATE LONG-STAY CARE ? |
| 18 | Since 1982 biennial national surveys conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys have provided valuable information on adolescent smoking behaviour . |
| 19 | A series of confrontations between protesters and police escalated into violence , with the numbers swelling on each successive night . |
| 20 | After playing through each of these examples individually , combine them into a 12 bar sequence and use different double stops for each chord on each successive chorus . |
| 21 | The four short barrels on each forward edge of the turret are smoke dischargers arranged in such a pattern as to form an instant smokescreen in front of the vehicle in an emergency |
| 22 | Make sure you read at least one book on each relevant topic . |
| 23 | Seat adjustment is not so easy , however ; if the seat is too close or too distant from the rudder pedals ( in those models so equipped ) , then one must deplane , pick up the seat and re-position one of four pairs of locating holes on each lower seat tube , spaced about an inch apart , on to two floor-mounted prongs . |
| 24 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
| 25 | The maximum number of links required on each remote node can be calculated as follows : — |
| 26 | Only one FTSP is required on each remote node irrespective of the number of LIFESPANs running and where the host node of each LIFESPAN is located . |
| 27 | For example : After payment of the Preference Dividend and the Preferred Dividend payable in respect of each financial year of the Company ( including any Arrears of the same ) the Company shall [ subject to provisions of clause … of the facility agreement ] pay to the Ordinary Shareholders out of the balance of any profits available for distribution a non-cumulative dividend of such amount as the Company shall determine ( but not exceeding the amount recommended by the Directors such recommendation to include the consent of the Investors ' Director ) on the capital from time to time paid up or credited as paid up on each Ordinary Share . |
| 28 | If the point is at all doubtful , take the facts each way and state the legal result following on each possible finding . |
| 29 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 30 | The study , by Mr Tony Travers , showed that spending on each primary school child increased by 41 per cent in real terms between 1980 and 1990 . |