Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun] of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current drugs education materials targeted at 13-17 year olds are based on two premises : i ) that substance abuse needs to be approached in the context of the general use of legal drugs in society and ii ) that young people should be encouraged to make rational decisions about their use of drugs on the basis of criteria related to personal health , self-identity and relationships with others . |
| 2 | The children , via the network , are able to learn about one another and develop their understanding of global issues through their exchange of messages on the system . |
| 3 | IN the musical South Pacific , American GIs sung of their pursuit of women on the mythical , tropical island of Bali Hai . |
| 4 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of theses on human geography , found that the modal value was 0 , i.e. the largest number of thesis-derived papers were published in the actual year of thesis deposit . |
| 5 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of theses on human geography , found that the modal value was 0 , i.e. the largest number of thesis-derived papers were published in the actual year of thesis deposit . |
| 6 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 7 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 8 | They had a soft spot for its mid- morning scene of desolation , the familiar down-and-outs warming themselves at their bonfires of pallets on the lorry park , street cleaners ineffectually sweeping piles of rotten fruit and a pecking order of scavengers collecting their portion of the spoils . |