Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year .
2 The most useful definition is that of groups formed on the basis of occupational difference .
3 Modules may be offered as free-standing units or in integrated modular programmes depending on the needs of various client groups .
4 Our large cases sit on a small side table at knee-level .
5 Whatever the need for honesty , there is little point , and usually no advantage , in allowing discussions to continue on the basis of anger or mutual recrimination .
6 An intercommodity spread between two index futures , where the shares in one index are a subset of the shares in the other index , represents a futures contract on the shares that are in one index but not the other .
7 The settlement price ( or the exchange delivery settlement price , EDSP ) is the trading price ( per 100 nominal ) for the futures contract on the last day of trading .
8 On 26 June 1991 LIFFE launched a futures contract on the ISE 's new Eurotrack-100 Index .
9 A stock index represents the market 's estimate of the present value of the subsequent cash flows expected from the constituent companies , while the current price of a futures contract on an index for delivery at time T represents the market 's estimate of the present value at time T of the subsequent cash flows .
10 The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right .
11 Far from providing a new kind of experience and ‘ meaning ’ , at bottom ( on Gellner 's view ) these counter-cultures depended on the existence of mainstream society and culture for their critiques to have any purchase .
12 As Professor Landes has pointed out , the tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account .
13 Gryglewski et al ( 1978 ) incorporated collagen strips into extracorporeal circuits in animals and showed that prostacyclin brought about disaggregation of platelet aggregates formed on the collagen strips .
14 This supply response takes a variety of forms depending on the institutional arrangements within particular labour markets , but the Lucas model postulates that there will be a diminished demand for holidays and other leisure activities and an increased demand for overtime or weekend working .
15 It is therefore primarily an adult process , but will take different forms depending on the circumstances of the participants .
16 The red stone gleamed in the sun ; the white birds floated on the thermals , wheeling in silent inspection ; on the rocks below , other birds screamed now and then .
17 As in so much of eighteenth-century Sussex local patterns depended on the experiences of one family , yet overall the role of the aristocracy and gentry remained more or less unquestioned .
18 It moved uncertainly towards her , its uncut claws rattling on the tiles , and gave her hand a soft , wet greeting .
19 Doleys and Arnold ( 1975 ) treated an 8-year-old mentally handicapped boy by encouraging him to copy another child and by reinforcing attempts to sit on the lavatory for longer periods .
20 The US decision was the decisive factor in persuading the military-backed interim government and local business groups to agree on the same day to renewed negotiations with the Organization of American States ( OAS ) .
21 When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed .
22 He respects , looks up to , objects placed on a pedestal … but only within limits !
23 But only last year she used to spend hours weeping on the floor of her flat because she thought her career was n't getting anywhere .
24 Named copies distributed well before the start of school on Monday , with spare copies posted on the staff room notice board gets the week off to a good start .
25 Special needs groups concentrate on the disabled .
26 This is because the subjects taught really fall into three types , namely , appropriate parts of basic disciplines taught on a theoretical basis , e.g. economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics ; essentially practical , procedural subjects such as accounting , and problem areas which are a mixture of theory , practice and problem solving , e.g. marketing , policy studies .
27 These measures may have unsettled the crowds gathering on the campuses but did not stop them .
28 But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) .
29 The researchers relied on the ability of the material to repel a magnetic field , a trademark of superconductors .
30 THE nights were still so cold that icicles formed on the outside of the chutes that fed the water-mills , where the water churned white and spilled over .
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