Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly on deck and on the navigational side we had all that was necessary but everything was very basic down to the manual anchor winch . |
| 2 | This is truly a ‘ cruise train' with all facilities on board as on a luxury liner . |
| 3 | Any correction of ethnic disadvantage , therefore , has to focus both on racism and on the mechanisms of class disadvantage . |
| 4 | Although there is a strong structuralist tradition in sociology itself , there has always been a competing emphasis on action and on the voluntary will of human beings . |
| 5 | The whole question of national health is bound up with that of efficiency and output and it is impossible to rank as a ‘ burden ’ on industry or on the community an outlay which safeguards wellbeing and ( to put it no higher ) conduces to the efficiency of the machine . |
| 6 | For his part , Yeltsin on May 29 said that he hoped to build a partnership with Gorbachev " not on confrontation but on a businesslike basis , on dialogue and talks " . |
| 7 | The Congress , describing itself as the " first legal representation of Latvian citizens since 1940 " , declared Latvia an " occupied country " and passed resolutions on independence and on the withdrawal of Soviet troops [ see p. 37322 for holding of similar " Congress of Estonia " in March ] . |
| 8 | ‘ It has an effect on perception , it has an effect on mood and on the ability to move the muscles , memory , to name just a few . |
| 9 | In negotiations , the railway unions will often look to their federations and confederations to support their demands and to put additional pressure on management or on the administration . |
| 10 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 11 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 12 | Not all employers have equal access to occupational pensions , and manual workers are less likely to receive one on retirement or on the same level as non-manual and professional employees . |
| 13 | It might be possible , however , to construct new variants on the Gettier theme which do not rely on inference or on an inference of this sort , as we shall see in the next section , and if so no complaints about PC j or other principles will be very effective . |
| 14 | The latter may prove difficult to achieve until good data is available both on outcome and on a more subtle classification of initial severity of the case . |
| 15 | With vowels you are relying more on sound ( or memory of sound ) and on appearance than on the feeling of the movements of your own ‘ speech organs ’ . |
| 16 | An analysis of national attitude surveys which include questions on poverty and on the way social security should be organised will also be carried out . |
| 17 | This program is available on disk and on a ROM chip . |
| 18 | Planning a path on paper before you build gives an idea of the shapes and patterns you can create with the materials available to you — and it 's easier to correct mistakes on paper than on the real thing ! |
| 19 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 20 | Show an increased awareness that a first draft is malleable , eg by changing the form in which the material is cast , eg from a story to a playscript , or by moving text around ( either on paper or on a computer screen ) , or by altering sentence structure or choice of vocabulary . |
| 21 | To an incoming Minister , who may owe his appointment more to adeptness in handling argument on paper or on the floor of the House of Commons , such inhibitions can come as an unwelcome surprise . |
| 22 | A procedure for the righting of wrongs which depends on peace-making and on the payment of enough compensation to make the peace hold , implies a different notion of justice from that embodied in a penal code in which offences are offences against the state . |
| 23 | Her final essay , indeed , echoes the theme of the whole book : the focus must be on democracy and on a sensitivity to local and individual needs and aspirations . |
| 24 | Howard realised the importance of avoiding walking barefoot in public places such as swimming pools or on other people 's carpets , so he decided to walk barefoot on grass and on the beach whenever possible , or simply to sit outside and expose his feet to the elements . |
| 25 | The plaintiff group of companies borrowed sums of money from the defendant bank secured , inter alia , by mortgages and it was a term of the mortgage deeds that the plaintiffs would pay on demand and on a full indemnity basis all costs , charges and expenses however incurred by the bank or by a receiver under the mortgage or in enforcing the security . |
| 26 | Already in the later seventeenth century , moreover , the designation of chargé d'affaires had begun to be given to secretaries who thus acquired a representative character , either on appointment or on the death or departure of the head of the mission of which they were part . |
| 27 | The importance of the Positive School is that it focussed attention on motivation and on the individual criminal . |
| 28 | This chapter focuses on manufacturing and on the current state of that part of the economy which once made the UK the workshop of the world . |
| 29 | Our task was to devise classroom practices which would maintain the imaginative developments of the 1960s while introducing more emphasis on craft and on the structures of language . |
| 30 | The engineering ( Simon Lawman and Bob Auger ) is first-rate — there is not the slightest suggestion of turgid inflation in the sound , the digital focus even firmer on CD than on the excellent tape . |