Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canberra group had begun to study the effect of a variety of drugs on memory formation in the chick , using a novel learning task they had adapted from work done in Los Angeles by the veteran neurobiologist Art Cherkin . |
| 2 | It is recognised however that PC(a) requires pupils to identify a variety of viewpoints on the issue , and therefore they may have to include differing views . |
| 3 | This programme ( see Chapter 3 ) involved the spending of over £400 million by a variety of agencies on the regeneration of east Glasgow , through the creation of new business centres , industrial development schemes , environmental improvements and substantial housing renewal and rehabilitation ( Leclerc and Draffan , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | It also describes how to run the Validate program to check the integrity of the LIFESPAN database and the LISTREL ( LIFESPAN Relationship Listing ) program to produce a variety of reports on the contents of the LIFESPAN system . |
| 5 | This User Guide explains how to use LIFESPAN PMR , the LIFESPAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT REPORTS Program , which allows a variety of reports on the content and state of Design Changes(DCs) , Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) and Software Status Reports ( SSRs ) within LIFESPAN to be produced . |
| 6 | and print out a variety of reports on that |
| 7 | Direct interaction of CREB with other cellular proteins is certain to play an important role in allowing CREB to have such a variety of effects on cellular transcription . |
| 8 | It allows for a variety of views on how alike , or unalike , human beings are in their particularities , in particular what is the significance of the difference of sex between men and women . |
| 9 | As he said in a radio broadcast in 1946 , the Criterion in later years " tended to reflect a particular point of view rather than to illustrate a variety of views on that plane . " |
| 10 | so erm , in , in some sense , it is with the Secretary of State 's consent , erm , the land was conveyed back at less than market value as it stood , but erm , er , and I guess there are a variety of views on that particular er , aspect of the situation . |
| 11 | A variety of texts on trade and industry , transport , finance , insurance and advertising for advanced students of English . |
| 12 | The purpose of making notes is primarily to set out , in a shortened but logical form , information that you have gathered from a variety of sources on a particular topic so that it can be used for revision purposes and as an aid to memory . |
| 13 | The Select Committee on Employment took evidence from a variety of sources on the effect of ERM on Italy and France . |
| 14 | Whereas the American Constitution guaranteed that ‘ Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press ’ as early as 1791 , the British State continued to regulate the press through a variety of taxes on paper and advertising until the mid-1850s . |
| 15 | They sell a variety of goods on a self-service basis . |
| 16 | Here is a chance to see a variety of helicopters on the hangar floor , with the possibility of seeing how new helicopters arrive , are assembled and test-flown . |
| 17 | The Wagoners self-service restaurant offers hot and cold menus , and the Station Tearoom provides a variety of snacks on its menu . |
| 18 | An informal display uses a variety of shapes on each side . |
| 19 | Sociologists and political scientists have devoted much time to developing a variety of theories on the determination of public sector expenditure . |
| 20 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |
| 21 | A DETAILED questionnaire covering a variety of issues on the subject of women in rock was sent to a cross-section of female musicians , with instructions to answer the questions they felt most moved by . |
| 22 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |
| 23 | Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandelbrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in a variety of ways on the Alpha machine . |
| 24 | For example , poor and underprivileged members of society are very dependent in a variety of ways on the government ; but they are not well-equipped to enlist the aid of the courts to challenge governmental action affecting them . |
| 25 | There are a variety of violets on the market , from the very dull to the very bright . |
| 26 | And there are long strands of fixed points , a bit like beads on long strings . |
| 27 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 28 | This resulted in a reduction of trams on the London — Brighton road north of Streatham . |
| 29 | In any case a government committed to a reduction in taxes on incomes would not welcome the substitution of LIT for domestic rates ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 13 and 1986:23 ) . |
| 30 | The incoming Conservative government announced a reopening of consultations on local government reorganisation . |