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

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1 Gasan Aziz ogly Gasanov was appointed as the new Chairman of the Council of Ministers on Jan. 26 .
2 Do Muoi , hitherto a Vice-Chairman , became Chairman of the Council of Ministers on June 22 , 1988 , following the death on March 10 of Pham Hung .
3 A referendum held in 1980 rejected the restoration of political parties ( proscribed by the King in 1961 ) but decided in favour of retaining the panchayat system with limited reforms , namely ; ( i ) the election to the Rashtriya Panchayat by universal adult franchise of 112 members for a five-year term ( the remaining 28 members being nominated by the King ) ; and ( ii ) the appointment of the Council of Ministers on the recommendation of the Prime Minister ( elected by the Rashtriya Panchayat ) .
4 President Mobutu Sese Seko carried out a reshuffle of the Council of Ministers on Jan. 11 , 1990 , the changes affecting more than one-third of its members .
5 In a significant reshuffle of the Council of Ministers on Jan. 8 , President Moussa Traoré relinquished his post as Minister of National Defence , which he entrusted to Brig. -Gen .
6 Masri 's position had been strengthened by the lifting of martial law and the decision of the Council of Ministers on July 14 to approve two draft laws , one amending the state security court law and the other sanctioning political parties .
7 Fundamental to the development of headhunting was the general acceptance of the payment of fees on a retainer basis , so that employing a search consultant was rendered comparable with that of engaging accountants , solicitors , or any other outside professional advisers .
8 A recent report of the Institute of Directors on the professional development of directors ( 1990 ) led a spokesman to say that ‘ it is not surprising that many boards do an adequate rather than an excellent job ’ ( quoted in The Independent , 1990 ) .
9 Colonial soil conservation measures during the 1930–50 period , which involved hedge planting , contour ridging of cultivated land and gully control , proved to be ineffective because of the unpopularity of controls on stock movement and resettlement .
10 Once again , if you really are determined to get fitter , go to a good bookshop and choose any one of the myriad of books on the subject ( see page 120 ) .
11 Seventeen Afar deputies walked out of the Chamber of Deputies on Dec. 23 and demanded talks between the government and the armed opposition .
12 A PDS deputy , Giorgio Napolitano , was elected as Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies on June 3 — an important preliminary to the appointment of a Prime Minister and a new government .
13 They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas .
14 Domokos Kosary was elected president of the Academy of Sciences on May 24 , 1990 .
15 Most of the work of geographers on settlement location , that of Von Thunen , Christaller and Weber for example , has concentrated on settlements as part of a hierarchy of places linked to trading patterns .
16 Even if ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are true , then this book may yet turn out to be one of the minority of books on philosophy that is not boring .
17 The burden of the debt is indeed a misnomer , since the burden arises only because of the existence of constraints on tax policy .
18 Another problem is the sheer eclecticism of progressive rock , both in terms of the variety of sources on which it drew and the range of styles contained within the genre .
19 There is also the question of the taxation of dividends on the shares in the index .
20 Much of the performance of Windows on any PC is down to the compatibility of the hardware with the operating system , and Windows itself .
21 With another five ( Nos. 3 , 4 , 5 , 10 , 14 ) , I should regard the evidence that they are ‘ firsts ’ as entirely satisfactory because of the coincidence of dates on title , verso , preface , etc .
22 The Substitute flipped open the latest of the pile of newspapers on the Captain 's desk .
23 If success is measured by the thickness of the pile of scripts on offer — and to many people it is then Ken was very successful indeed .
24 His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby .
25 Still chewing , he balanced the plate on the top of the pile of books on the bedside table , put his arm around Ginny and squeezed .
26 The most common methods of valuation in construction companies are : FIFO ( first in first out ) — the calculation of the cost of stocks on the basis that the quantities in hand represent the latest purchases or production .
27 Kanemaru reportedly said , however , that he had first learned of the involvement of Inagawa-kai on Dec. 23 , 1987 , whereas Watanabe had already stated that Kanemaru had called on him in September 1987 to ask Ishii to suppress the Nihon Kiminto campaign .
28 While there is again doubtless some validity in this , there is a problem precisely because of the dependence of results on team effort .
29 ‘ We try to promote a healthy lifestyle and we give advice on good living practice , ’ said occupational health nurse , one of two full time nurses at the centre who constantly monitor the health effects of the multitude of jobs on the site .
30 New council member Stella Robinson , a private home proprietor , told the council of the lack of awareness of CCETSW among private sector agencies , and the difficulty in assessing the value of the multitude of courses on offer .
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