Example sentences of "[conj] on the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 2 | Yet the system remains defective , with no limits at all on what British parties can spend on national campaigns , or on the size of donations they can receive . |
| 3 | The legacies of these origins have persisted and there has never been agreement on the nature of international affairs , on the proper methods for studying them , or on the range of elements which theories of them must take into account . |
| 4 | At the general meeting of 13 February mentioned above , and on advice from STA headquarters , conveyed by the ETS secretary John Common , the men voted to return to work on " the November conditions " , that is with an extra 2s 6d on the stab rate ( to bring it up to the Glasgow figure ) plus some concessions on overtime , but no joy on piece rates or on the question of hours . |
| 5 | A session of the federal government on March 1 approved a bill on private enterprises , removing all limits on the number of people whom such enterprises could employ or on the level of profits which could accrue . |
| 6 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the debate on Trident in Scotland is not on whether we should have three or four boats or on the number of warheads per missile but on whether we should proceed with expenditure which , over its lifetime , could amount to £23,000 million on a useless , dangerous military white elephant ? |
| 7 | Cripps , in particular , became associated with the notion of " working-class sanctions " ; that is the use of union power to prevent arms delivery and the avoidance of reliance on either the National Government or on the League of Nations . |
| 8 | For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against . |
| 9 | By a respondent 's notice dated 1 July 1991 the first defendant cross-appealed , seeking an order that on the taking of accounts and inquiry ordered to be taken by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 , the plaintiffs were not entitled to raise an objection to the defendants ' accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount unless the court had deprived the first defendant as mortgagee of relevant costs . |
| 10 | Statements of what people intended to get out of the policy-making process are generally something that has to be established on the basis of careful examination of the evidence rather than on the basis of assumptions about interests . |
| 11 | The main change concerned repeat fees which are now based on the audience , measured in TVRs , for each commercial , rather than on the number of times it is shown . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend should be aware how much we welcome his statement and that of the Secretary of State , which concentrate on how children are taught in schools rather than on the number of teachers employed . |
| 13 | It was not faced squarely even in the heyday of regional policy , when measures placed much more emphasis on the mobility of industrial investment than on the movement of workers , and it has been almost completely ignored since the dismantling of regional planning in 1979 . |
| 14 | This project will provide an up-to-date study of the impact of such factors on the size and composition of the population of children in care and on the likelihood of children coming into care . |
| 15 | However , the parties would have access to a specialized competition policy tribunal ( a restructured MMC ) , if they were unhappy with the conclusions of the Office of Fair Trading , and further rights of appeal to the High Court on points of law , on the interpretation of evidence , and on the level of fines . |
| 16 | Put these in a shallow dish and look for small animals on the stems and on the underside of leaves . |
| 17 | This provided information on the cultivation of Ananas ( pineapple ) and on the management of stoves and hot walls , and in an addendum many new plants were introduced . |
| 18 | These will give details on programmes of work and on the progress of developments . |
| 19 | Di Tella took a personal interest in the lives of his workers , giving gifts at weddings and on the birth of children and taking responsibility for the health and welfare of the workers and their families . |
| 20 | Each repeated the other 's remarks and on the couple of occasions that I went there when Sparks were crowded out , I found that it was extremely difficult not to laugh . |
| 21 | The reports we commissioned on group discussions and depth interviews with people who might have been particularly vulnerable to the risk of serious credit problems ( Appendix II ) , and on the experience of clients of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) , were designed to throw some light on such problems . |
| 22 | Released , the door swung open and the two women embraced , laughing , and on the edge of tears . |
| 23 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 24 | These inadequacies of structure in turn were thought to have a bad effect on the efficient delivery of local government services , and on the ability of citizens to understand the role of local democracy . |
| 25 | In his pioneering study , Noel Boaden ‘ suggests that activity in any service will depend on the incidence of need for that service , on the disposition of the authority to provide the service and on the availability of resources with which to provide the service ’ ( Boaden 1971:21 ) . |
| 26 | The time in the week the sessions take place depends on the demands of the ward and on the availability of teachers . |
| 27 | And on the subject of conspiracies , what future does Swedish winger Anders Limpar have at Highbury if a 20-year-old from up the Piccadilly Line at Wood Green is now ahead of him in the pecking order ? |
| 28 | Diseases of the liver and digestive system , motor vehicle accidents , accidents in the home and mental disorders are all commonly related to alcohol , and drinking also impinges powerfully on the work of social services , where child abuse is often related to parental drinking , and on the work of police and probation services . |
| 29 | All inheritance tax on death and on the making of gifts can now be avoided with respect to farming and other business assets . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend the Member for Westminster , North characteristically set the record straight about manpower allocations in the police force and about the critical role of Her Majesty 's chief inspector of constabulary in objectively advising the Home Secretary on correct force levels and on the identification of posts suitable for civilianisation — for that releases policemen and women from desk jobs and puts them back on the beat , which is what the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West wants . |