Example sentences of "an [noun] on [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there would be no total prohibition on the payment out of trust monies subsequent to the death by virtue of the fact that there would be £1M of relevant income ready to be used in an assessment on any beneficiaries under TA 1988 , s740 . |
| 2 | We had quite a lot of homework , so that those of us on a train journey involving an hour on either side of the school day , and then a couple of hours work , were not left with much free time . |
| 3 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the Government drew attention to the need to reconsider traditional teaching techniques in order to promote and encourage the development of oral skills : ‘ In the majority of primary and middle schools there is an over-concentration on practising skills in literacy and numeracy … much work is too closely directed by the teacher and there is little chance for oral discussion . ’ |
| 4 | The harmonization of laws affecting domestic transactions in member States has an effect on international transactions in that within the field covered by the harmonizing measures these obviate the need to resort to conflict of laws rules and thus achieve one of the objectives of a Convention regulating international transactions . |
| 5 | Television has had as profound an effect on contemporary sport as the railway or the popular press had on Victorian sport . |
| 6 | The Comintern , however , disapproving strongly of these tactics , obliged the Mexican Communists ’ to send directives to the peasant leaders instructing them to turn their arms against the government and fight an action on two fronts with a view to precipitating social revolution' ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 6 ) . |
| 7 | Junior army officers support the idea of a volunteer force and one of their leaders , Major Vladimir Lopatin , is now an adviser on military affairs to Mr Yeltsin . |
| 8 | There must be an intention on both sides for there to be legal consequences in the event of a breach , in order to constitute a binding contract . |
| 9 | Ulcers were found by chance during an experiment on ulcerative oesophagitis after thoracic irradiation in the mouse . |
| 10 | Today I heard an interview on Italian radio with EMF . |
| 11 | In an interview on French television on Dec. 2 , Saddam Hussein said that " if this meeting is to be a true path to dialogue , then we are closer to peace , … but if this meeting is to be nothing more than a formal exhibition … then we are closer to war " . |
| 12 | In Kufra the police and , so far as it is possible to know , the secret police , were all Kufrans ; in Ajdabiya the officers reflected the tribal composition of the local population ( although their deputy chief was an outsider on temporary assignment for a few years ) . |
| 13 | The parliament dissolved in February 1990 passed a comprehensive Companies Act and an Act on Foreign Investments in 1988 , and in 1989 an act on conversion of state enterprises and co-operatives into companies and also a statute reforming the land law in state and co-operative ownership . |
| 14 | In fact I am not an expert on any aspect of the subject on which I am to speak . |
| 15 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 16 | ‘ You seem to be sort of an expert on this kind of thing , ’ Sam says . |
| 17 | The researchers , headed by Dr Margaret Klinowska , a Cambridge biologist , and David Goodson , an expert on acoustic engineering at Loughborough University , say new data shows that plastic sound reflectors attached to fishing nets can warn dolphins of hazards . |
| 18 | As an incentive to preserving wrecks , court awards to conscientious salvagers often approach the total value of the treasure , according to , an expert on marine policy for the Woods Hole ( Massachusetts ) Oceanographic Institute . |
| 19 | This is part of an insistence on greater transparency in company dealings . |
| 20 | We now think of an insistence on grammatical correctness as a conservative position . |
| 21 | Anticipations of that rise exercise an influence on present sales for future delivery , and that in its turn influences cash prices ; so that these prices are indirectly affected by estimates of the expense of producing further supplies . |
| 22 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 23 | The works of Trubar and his contemporaries were rediscovered and had an influence on such figures in the Yugoslav renaissance as Kopitar and Vuk Karadžić . |
| 24 | Inside this octagon is another , with a diameter of 55 feet , having an apse on each side of the figure except the east . |
| 25 | There 's no money to stake you — if you had an eye on that win from the cockfight — it 's gone towards paying my debts … a drop in the ocean . ’ |
| 26 | The Queen Mother is also a shrewd judge of character who makes it her business to keep an eye on new members of the family and , if necessary , step in to protect her beloved ‘ firm ’ . |
| 27 | Both participants can make changes and annotate files with handwritten notes as they keep an eye on each other in the video window . |
| 28 | December 's page from the RAF Museum 's find 1992 calendar — a Hurricane of 615 Squadron keeping an eye on two Stirlings of 15 Squadron , from the canvas of John Young . |
| 29 | With an eye on recent developments in neighbouring Romania , trade union leaders appealed to strikers not to stage demonstrations , apparently fearful of a spread of unrest . |
| 30 | keep an eye on sniffable products in the home . |