Example sentences of "[conj] on [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee contains leading representatives of the tobacco industry and its task is to monitor the operation of the agreements on advertising and on sponsorship of sports by tobacco companies in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The American embassy in Seoul analysed current trends within the North Korean Labour Party ( NKLP ) at the beginning of 1950 ; it was based on various embassy records and on interrogations of refugees from North Korea . |
| 3 | For example , in the late 1970s there were widespread reports in the press and on television of attacks on and thefts from innocent people in the street , attacks which subsequently became known as ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 4 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 5 | The concern is expressed on behalf of defendants in custody because they may ultimately be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences , and on behalf of defendants on bail because of the uncertainty and unpleasantness of a pending criminal trial . |