Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] on " in BNC.

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1 There are three sorts of seismic wave sources on the Moon .
2 We are currently undertaking a study into the impacts of present transport policies on the Welsh environment which we hope to publish later this year .
3 Up until that time much of the work in steel-making had been done by individuals or groups of steel-making master craftsmen on a jobbing or sub-contracting basis .
4 Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig .
5 In a pre-election report entitled Politics for All , Runnymede had already drawn attention to the painful gap between … the fine statements and aspirations of official policy statements on the one hand and the painful realities of discrimination and exclusion on the other .
6 The present inquiry examines in what ways the attitudes to new techniques were affected by unique circumstances of our pioneer industrial revolution ; tries to assess the extent to which Victorian businessmen and their successors failed to comprehend that a continuous regard for new techniques was a condition of survival in a competitive system ; considers the effects of two World Wars on technical innovation ; and presents the achievements and failures in a broad historical context .
7 Therefore the effects of exclusive purchasing agreements on social welfare are not clear , sometimes restrictions will be desirable , sometimes not , dependent upon particular parameters of the model .
8 However , despite their economic problems , farmers have come under fire from conservation interests because of the allegedly adverse effects of modern farming practices on the environment .
9 This point can be more clearly illustrated by considering the prolonged controversy surrounding the effects of modern farming methods on the rural landscape-This has created as much , if not more , acrimony between farming and environmental interests in recent years , with the destruction of traditional landscape features replacing the extermination of birds of prey as a rallying point for public attention .
10 The health issue was further pursued by Mr Roger Coghill , an expert on the effects of high-voltage power lines on the human body .
11 Some examples : third-world debt ; good and bad official aid ; the effects of present trade structures on the countries of the South ; theories of development ; the arms trade and development ; women and development ; input on particular countries and regions .
12 LIVERPOOL University has begun research into ‘ the effects of various refereeing decisions on the body . ’
13 West Belfast Action for the Unemployed has been active on the punitive effects of social security policies on unemployed people in the area .
14 The effects of these nerve cells on arousal and learning are very complex and still need to be sorted out , he added .
15 infant and child mortality particularly the deleterious effects of short birth intervals on survival chances : this work is of considerable policy relevance , attracting attention from a number of international agencies ;
16 This pattern occurs frequently due to factors such as the way in which meter readings for , say , electricity supply are made from house to house , i.e. not at random , or the effects of localized advertising campaigns on a larger file in which many unaffected records are stored .
17 At this stage it will be instructive to consider the effects of different growth assumptions on a firm 's share price , its dividend yield , its PE ratio and its total rate of return .
18 These authors studied the effects of high insulin concentrations on prostacyclin production by rat aortic rings in vitro and demonstrated that prostacyclin production was significantly reduced in the presence of insulin at concentrations of 2500 , 500 and 250 μU/ml ( Lasche & Larson , 1982 ) .
19 In the back rooms of Whitehall , where they worked on the knotty problem of what to do in a national emergency , there was a file on the likely effects of German air attacks on London .
20 It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere .
21 HMI lost no opportunity in ramming the message home , whether in individual school reports , in the ‘ Education Observed ’ and in the ‘ Curriculum Matters ’ series , or in their annual reports on the ‘ effects of public expenditure policies on educational provision ’ .
22 Material circumstances , then , do affect the standard and quality of teaching , as the HMI have themselves noted in surveys of the effects of public expenditure policies on teaching and learning .
23 EFFECTS OF ACTIVE OXYGEN SCAVENGERS ON INDOMETHACIN INDUCED GASTRIC MUCOSAL INJURY
24 The days of general haulage operations on a small scale are long past .
25 The incident followed several days of intermittent sniper attacks on Israeli forces in the area , claimed by Fatah Uprising , a Syrian-based Palestinian group .
26 But two days of sustained air attacks on Croatian positions , and artillery fire near Sarajevo , indicate that elements within the army are willing to fight openly in support of Serbs , who were vehemently opposed to independence for Bosnia .
27 There are many different kinds of edible food colourings on the market , available in felt-tip form , pastes , dry powders , syrups and liquids .
28 Sir , — That heroic huntin' person ‘ name and address supplied ’ tells us the tearing to pieces of foxes by packs of half starved dogs accompanied by hordes of fancy dress killers on horseback is legal , efficient and beneficial to the fox !
29 Some of these aspects may well combine in complex and inexplicable ways in the learning process and clearly the teacher can not take the chance of depriving learners of effective learning conditions on the grounds that they can not be explained or controlled .
30 The midday sun glinted against the bronze bas-reliefs of famous battle scenes on Napoleon 's column as Chantal steered the Harley-Davidson through the place de l'Opéra and turned down the busy rue de la Paix .
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