Example sentences of "of [noun pl] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 2 | The seeds on which weavers feed do not of course require spaced hunting , and flocking facilitates the location and congregation of birds on patchily distributed resources . |
| 3 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 4 | It allows for a variety of views on how alike , or unalike , human beings are in their particularities , in particular what is the significance of the difference of sex between men and women . |
| 5 | However , asking people to express attitudes was a relatively straightforward way of producing a large number of indicators on almost any subject that was of interest . |
| 6 | The actress Jane Asher , author of books on really sticky cakes , asked the audience to boycott Nescafe when she accepted the consumer section award on behalf of the Baby Milk Action Coalition , which has criticised the Swiss giant for selling milk substitutes to third world babes . |
| 7 | The impact of computers on almost every aspect of industrial life has been most marked and it would be strange if R&D and project management had escaped . |
| 8 | Er , but they have a lot of steps on how to do things . |
| 9 | Esther says of Mrs Jellyby : her voice impressed my fancy as if it had a sort of spectacles on too Ch 8 and of Mr Turveydrop : |
| 10 | The research sets out a number of hypotheses on how market share turbulence should affect investment . |
| 11 | The Laboratoire de Conservation de la Pierre , now in its tenth year , has organised a series of lectures on how science can contribute to the restoration of works of art . |
| 12 | Blacks , on the other hand , harbour a much more narrowly defined set of possibilities on how they might advance . |
| 13 | You often hear managers say that : ' I 've run out of ideas on how to deal with him … ’ or ‘ she could do so much better but I just ca n't seem to make any progress … ’ or ‘ he simply did n't do what I asked … ’ |
| 14 | There is at last discussion and pooling of ideas on how to make residential services accessible . |
| 15 | Women 's magazines were full of ideas on how to make the best of one 's appearance in spite of the meagre supplies of make up available in the shops . |
| 16 | What is more surprising , when considering what advocates of testing have to say on this subject , is the lack of ideas on how such information could ever help schools . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm very interested to see how workshops are run out there and I have a lot of questions on both the design and financial sides . ’ |
| 18 | The rarity of lianes on truly oceanic islands , e.g. Mauritius and Galapagos Islands ( one or two only ) , can be explained by wind-dispersal not being efficient enough to get them to islands . |
| 19 | No right of appeal is afforded by the Act against the imposition of conditions on either processions or assemblies nor on the power to impose bans . |
| 20 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |
| 21 | Afforestation and reforestation are both characteristic of modern forestry ( the former is the planting of forests on land previously unoccupied by trees while the latter involves the re-establishment of trees on formerly forested land that has been cleared ) . |
| 22 | Goodness , a lot of files on there ! |
| 23 | Electronic surveillance ( bugging ) , telephone tapping , infiltration of political organizations and squats , photographing demonstrations , the maintenance of files on perhaps 2 million political activists and ( in London ) the systematic recording of all public meetings and demonstrations , including the names and addresses of speakers and chairpersons , are all practices that have been admitted by the police or have emerged in the course of court hearings . |
| 24 | Introductory notes give tips on tension swatches , measurements and knitting methods with a list of suggestions on how to use the designs to create individual and personalised garments . |
| 25 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 26 | It would not be sufficient to store a set of instructions on how to act . |
| 27 | and very importantly is er , a list of instructions on how to use it , in order to erm , update it for the current month . |
| 28 | He says that he hopes that there will be a meeting of minds on how to deal with traffic problems . |
| 29 | The Corum Conference people are running a series of seminars on both the East and West Coasts on how to value , prepare and sell your software company entitled ‘ Selling Up , Selling Out . ’ |
| 30 | In addition 25 other trade-related agreements were ratified which included the mutual reduction of tariffs and export duties on 350 manufactured goods ; the freeing of restrictions on nearly all primary agricultural produce and the equalizing of tariffs of 170 food items ; and a bilateral annual trade of 10,000 vehicles . |