Example sentences of "on this [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore it would seem on this approach that the court first has to decide whether the covenant is intrinsically just and reasonable before it applies the object and intent test .
2 Building on this approach and something which I think you 'll see certainly during the course of your your medical studies antibodies directed against tumourler proce , tumourler process factor are now being used to try and interrupt the chain of events at a slightly later stage .
3 Based on this knowledge and looking at charts that plot the timing of stages , it is no surprise that the average Japanese project seems to exercise a higher degree of overlap between product engineering and process engineering than is true in the US and Europe .
4 Over the next three years the government plans to commit just £3.3 million on this field and to redirect British research towards collaboration with other European countries .
5 Mr has made more publicity on this issue than any other councillor .
6 Undoubtedly there are differences in people 's experiences of support between grandparents and grandchildren , but we have so little up-to-date evidence on this issue that it is difficult to say how far such experiences vary systematically according to gender , ethnicity or social class .
7 It was on this issue that his controversy with R. J. Campbell , then minister of the City Temple in London , centred ; many had accepted the views to which Forsyth had taken exception .
8 Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense .
9 We lack up-to-date and large-scale British data on this issue but the model of linear flows , in which children are net beneficiaries , does seem to fit the evidence of smaller studies discussed elsewhere in this chapter .
10 The Booksellers Association , which is not taking a view on this issue because of the differing interests of its membership , says it is nevertheless watching developments closely , and is recommending that booksellers lobby their MPs according to their trading preferences .
11 However , the courts may gradually have fewer and fewer decisions to make on this issue because the pendulum , swinging between control and decontrol since 1915 , has swung once again in favour of the landlord .
12 Afterwards the Cardinal accepted that he had not appreciated the strong feelings of Jews on this issue and that he now hoped to find out more about the Shoah ( the Hebrew word for the Holocaust ) .
13 But Neil Kinnock has endorsed the McNamara line on this issue and he has endorsed the main arguments used to justify it .
14 If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ?
15 The funding problem is linked to the Institute 's own financial problems , but this year 's District Societies Steering Committee is being very positive on this issue and is doing all it can to ensure a reasonable level of funding .
16 Some firms are very flexible on this issue and where possible , allow them to relocate at a later date .
17 If Frey is an exponent of gloom and doom , then Regan is a master of myopia on this issue and shows an unbecoming lack of sensitivity which suggests that his answer would be No .
18 With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without .
19 This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law .
20 I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God .
21 Nor is this merely constitutional or political theory , divorced from reality , for without doubt the election in 1985 for the GLC would have turned very largely on this issue and on the view taken of the controversial Labour administration at County Hall during its four years in office .
22 The result removed any lingering doubt on this issue and showed clearly that while the outcome of the Westminster elections was distorted in terms of seats secured by parties by the X-voting system the voting pattern roughly reflected the division in public opinion , ( see page 20 ) .
23 And on the Jimmy Young Show , as the news of Telecom 's unannounced increase in charges was discussed : ‘ Well , said Jimmy , brightly , ‘ let's take some calls on this issue and the first one is Mrs so-and-so from whatnot … ’ and , yes you 've guessed it , what did Mrs so-and-so from whatnot have to say ?
24 In the early days , SCOTVEC and the unions discussed their difference of views on this issue and an agreement was reached on the way in which the validation criteria would be interpreted .
25 The Association has pressed for a clear-cut answer on this issue and has not received it .
26 Let's be honest , I did n't wan na see good sections , I wan na see strong sections , I wan na see vibrant sections , but I also want to see the truth in those documents when it comes back afterwards , so I 'm disappointed on this issue and er I hope something in future will be done about to report the real things that we discussed at conference as well .
27 We have received much support from the Scottish Euro MPs on this issue and the matter was debated in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 12 June 1990 .
28 Formal negotiations on this issue and on a state treaty between the two countries were accordingly begun on April 25 .
29 We must continue to campaign on this issue and support taking legal action in Europe against the attack on women 's pay .
30 Thijs and colleagues recently reviewed the results of all controlled studies on this issue and noted that a statistically significant positive association between parity or pregnancy was found in 26 of 42 studies .
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