Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working on board can build up a hearty appetite and catering for the 180 crew on board Balder has been managed by P&O Catering . |
| 2 | It has been decided that the introductory day on future courses should include a substantial session on confidentiality . |
| 3 | The introductory document on national curriculum English hints at formal examinations at the end of key stages and this saddens her . |
| 4 | Most appropriately , the introductory chapter on distribution and evolution is an up-to-date review by that eminent physical anthropologist G. H. R. von Koenigswald . |
| 5 | After the introductory chapter on scepticism , the first part contains a chapter on the nature of knowledge and its relation to true justified belief , and another concentrating on one particular theory . |
| 6 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 7 | Whether quoting ‘ Pop ’ ( ‘ Success is a frame of mind ’ ) or Groucho Marx ( ‘ When it 's 9.30 in New York , it 's 1937 in Los Angeles ’ ) , Hearst slips the reader the inside story on some very high times . |
| 8 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 9 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |
| 10 | In Scotland , Irish imports were banned , and after the Union in 1707 the total ban on European imports extended to Scotland and at the same time free trade between England and Scotland was allowed . |
| 11 | The total ban on all vehicles including cycles will run from 10.30am to 4pm and they stressed disabled drivers who get into the area before 10.30 would be able to stay for three hours before driving out . |
| 12 | The total spending on food still increases , but at a slower rate than the level of income itself . |
| 13 | By 1988 — 9 the total spending on social security was £47.6 billion or 31 per cent of total public spending , up from 25 per cent in 1978 — 9 . |
| 14 | Education is one of the largest consumers of public money : the total expenditure on education in 1989–90 by central and local government in the United Kingdom was an estimated 24.1 billion , some 14% of the total spending on all services . |
| 15 | MV will be the total spending on national output , and therefore must be equal to PQ . |
| 16 | When national expenditure is computed , it is measured initially in market prices — for example , the total spending on beer is equal to the quantity of beer bought times its average market price . |
| 17 | The total write-down on £102.7m would have seriously dented Trafalgar 's £122.4m of pre-tax profits for 1991 . |
| 18 | The total expenditure on renewables research up to 1988 , for example , had been £152 million , equivalent to less than eighteen months spending on the fast reactor . |
| 19 | Such is its diversity that measuring the total expenditure on it seems quite impossible and the number of ‘ actors ’ already involved is vast . |
| 20 | Half of the total expenditure on social security is on retirement pensions and , apart from 5 per cent of the retired men , the remainder receive a full pension . |
| 21 | In 1979–80 , for example , the total expenditure on pharmaceutical services by the National Health Service was £989 million , while the total expenditure by universities and local education authorities in England and Wales on books and educational equipment was £314 million . |
| 22 | Perhaps some of the total expenditure on deprivation payments could be reserved by the family health services authorities for appeals , providing that the money was ‘ ring fenced . ’ |
| 23 | In both cases , the total expenditure on advanced further education could be strictly regulated . |
| 24 | Education is one of the largest consumers of public money : the total expenditure on education in 1989–90 by central and local government in the United Kingdom was an estimated 24.1 billion , some 14% of the total spending on all services . |
| 25 | By ‘ optimum ’ we mean efficient , and by size we refer to the number of residents and the total expenditure on local public goods . |
| 26 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 27 | The total balances on the sales ledger ( visitors ' ledger ) will give the total sundry debtors ; the total balance of the purchases ledger will give the total of the sundry creditors . |
| 28 | Prospective members are concerned with the total effects on their balance of payments of joining the CU . |
| 29 | Now that genuinely bypassable traffic is a minority of the total traffic on the A fifty nine system . |
| 30 | The following are proportions of the total wind on the nose or tail with each 10° wind angle . |