Example sentences of "[adj] that [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 2 | It is clear that expenditure on old people dominates all other items , followed by expenditure on the unemployed . |
| 3 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 4 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 5 | Mr. Dear painted a picture of a poorly funded , undermanned force under great pressure , and a chief constable with his hands tied behind his back by council rules and bureaucracy such that decisions on spending even minute amounts have to be referred to a committee , including items as minute as the installation of a telephone line . |
| 6 | I corrected it and the hook was so violent that people on adjoining fairways dived for cover . |
| 7 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 8 | Erm , one of the things we had on the stall is erm this erm application form for N H S charges , now many people including probably people here do n't know that erm , you do n't have to be on supplementary to get help and Ann knows actually , er if your getting any rent or rate rebate and you fill this in , you 'll get some help , in some cases quite considerable help , and I suggested that we had some of these on our store room , got some from Welfare Rights , and they went like hot cakes , because most people did n't know about this , so following that we shall have , we shall keep these on our stall and I 've more or less suggested that Lisa on Age Concern in the Leah Manning should have them there because she 's constantly getting enquiries on that , so she is going to do that . |
| 9 | Opening the debate yesterday , Lord Mackay said the bill 's key aims were to ensure a voice for the users of legal services , and to make sure that decision-takers on legal services were answerable and took their decisions with the benefit of full and considered advice . |
| 10 | In contrast to the established systems which simply distribute torque equally between the front and rear wheels , our good engineers have made sure that power on the Carrera 4 is delivered 31% to the front wheels and 69% to the rear . |
| 11 | Stuart Anderson , their secretary , says : ‘ The general message is that Kent have put their house in order , turned the corner and are confident that improvements on the field will be matched by overall prosperity . ’ |
| 12 | But concern about the operation has been so great that police on the Isle of Man have been flooded with more than 50 calls asking if the operation is above board . |
| 13 | Those that land on a suitably moist site then develop into new plants . |
| 14 | Among the groups of invertebrates worst affected were those that prey on others , the grazers on plants such as algae , and the so-called detritus collectors . |
| 15 | The fact that both these forms of aphasia are frequently observed suggests that there are separate systems for perceiving and producing speech ; and we have already seen in Chapter 6 that research on normal subjects suggests the same conclusion . |
| 16 | It 's important that people on TV do n't just stay icons , but meet people in living colour , if you do n't mind the pun ! |
| 17 | As capital is a scarce resource , it is important that information on a company gives a fair and accurate view of its prospects , such that resources ( capital ) are allocated efficiently . |
| 18 | I think it 's probably worth mentioning on that similar context following Mr 's comments about the false alarms , that the more successful we are at reducing those , the more that impacts on our budget because they take out for S S A , unlike road accidents . |
| 19 | Desirable though it may be , it seems unlikely that texts on specifically chemical aspects of economics will be developed . |
| 20 | Constitutional Development Minister Gerrit Viljoen said on Aug. 27 that negotiations on a new South African constitution should begin in 1991 and be completed within two years . |
| 21 | It is probable that Phylakopi on the island of Melos was similarly adopted , and not actually founded , by Minoans . |
| 22 | By 1221 the town was so successful that encroachments on the market place began . |
| 23 | The colour photography of John Riddy is nothing short of sensational , however , starting with plate number one , a deep purple painted steel construction from 1965 that lounges on a white New England wooden veranda . |
| 24 | By the time amber had reached the head of the Adriatic it was readily accessible by sea and it is hardly surprising that Kakovatos on the west coast of the Peloponnese should have yielded the richest find of amber from this period in Greece . |
| 25 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 26 | It is true that statistics on marriage are one thing , expectations of marriage another . |
| 27 | GLIDEWELL L.J. , having reviewed the authorities , concluding with Pao On v. Lau Yiu , continued : It is true that Pao On v. Lau Yiu is a case of a tripartite relationship , that is , a promise by A to perform a pre-existing contractual obligation owed to B , in retum for a promise of payment by C. But Lord Scarman 's words seem to me to be of general application , equally applicable to a promise made by one of the original two parties to a contract . |
| 28 | I was brought up in one myself , but it is true that girls on the whole do better in the subjects traditionally regarded as male subjects in single sex schools . |