Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fujimori announced on June 23 the capture of three Sendero Luminoso central committee members , Yovanka Pardave Trujillo , Víctor García Castano and Tito Valle Travesano , a former president of the Association of Democratic Lawyers specializing in the defence of detainees on terrorist charges . |
| 2 | The majority of players on both sides have had no competitive cricket since the World Cup . |
| 3 | Whilst accepting that this is an oversimplification of a process that includes a sophisticated method of calculating relative costs ( ie the weighted factors ) , it nonetheless indicated how the further education process could be improved , assuming that Colleges could enhance their income level once the majority of constraints on local operations were removed . |
| 4 | This is so also for children , so that together these two groups often constitute the majority of casualties on residential streets . |
| 5 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 6 | He then handed business a plum : the majority of seats on each board will be held by business representatives . |
| 7 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 8 | The first example describes , and because it does not comment , appears to legitimise the hierarchical organisation of labour in offices , with the majority of workers on lower pay than the minority . |
| 9 | It is used in the majority of microcomputers on sale in Britain . |
| 10 | Kamikamica announced a 20 per cent cut in income tax and the reduction of duties on a wide range of goods in recognition of the satisfactory performance of the economy . |
| 11 | The Safety Management System is a simple to follow 200 page manual , which hopefully will benefit Dounreay for many years to come and contribute to the reduction of accidents on site . ’ |
| 12 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 13 | They included , in May , the legalization of private banking and the reduction of taxes on company profits from 89 per cent to 59 per cent in an attempt to encourage investment . |
| 14 | April : April 1 : Bessmertnykh discussed in Beijing measures to resolve Soviet-Chinese border disputes , and the reduction of troops on both sides of the border ; April 4 : Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki held talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Poland , the internal situation in both countries , and prospects for co-operation ; April 4 : Romanian President Iliescu arrived in Moscow to sign the Soviet-Romanian Treaty ; April 8-9 : Bessmertnykh , visiting Belgrade , supported the preservation of Yugoslavia 's territorial integrity ; April 8 : Viktor Komplektov named as new Soviet ambassador to the USA ; April 9-10 : Bessmertnykh had talks in Athens with Greek President Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation ; April 16-19 : President Gorbachev visited Japan , the first visit by a Soviet leader , and had a number of ( inconclusive ) discussions with Japanese officials about the fate of the disputed Kurile Islands — the main obstacle to a significant increase in the amount of Japanese aid and credits to the USSR ; April 17 : as part of a $3,000 million aid package agreed earlier in the year , the South Korean Export-Import bank signed an agreement giving the Soviet Union $800 million worth of credits to purchase South Korean raw materials and consumer goods . |
| 15 | Apply a bead of non-setting mastic all around the base of rebates on the timber subframe , and across the front sill platform |
| 16 | Another problem is the sheer eclecticism of progressive rock , both in terms of the variety of sources on which it drew and the range of styles contained within the genre . |
| 17 | And to us , whose country markets are rapidly vanishing , the extraordinary activity and the variety of foodstuffs on sale in a little town of only three thousands inhabitants like Duclair , so few miles away from Dover , has a particular fascination . |
| 18 | The peoples of many different countries have settled here and grafted their own cultures on Malaysia — observe the variety of influences on architecture and the cornucopia of festivals celebrated . |
| 19 | Before embarking on care proceedings a local authority should always consider whether it could improve the family situation sufficiently by the provision of services on a voluntary basis ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 3.11 ) . |
| 20 | Through the provision of contracts on admission , and ongoing reviews of each resident 's career in the Home , difficulties might be ironed out at an early stage . |
| 21 | Another area of voluntary activity is the provision of classes on preparation for retirement . |
| 22 | Electronics and electrical machines are included as important fields of study and the ever-increasing importance of computing is recognised by the provision of courses on computer applications in engineering and the integration of computing into design and laboratory projects . |
| 23 | With a reasonable amount of intelligent deduction and a good deal of luck they find the loot of churches on the Spanish Main hidden by the priest-turned-pirate Domingo Mugnoz . |
| 24 | The Court ruled that the case against the three , who had exercised their right not to give evidence at the trial , had been overwhelmingly prejudiced following an announcement by King during the trial of restrictions on the right of silence [ see p. 37098 ] . |
| 25 | The existence of controls on investment in the non-sterling area therefore probably had little restrictive effect [ Blackaby , 1978 ; Tew , 1982 ] . |
| 26 | They understood faith to be an assent of the mind as agreeable to reason as assenting to the existence of objects on a table . |
| 27 | The burden of the debt is indeed a misnomer , since the burden arises only because of the existence of constraints on tax policy . |
| 28 | It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf . |
| 29 | The accounts were approved by the Board of Directors on 8th June 1993 and signed on its behalf by : R K A Wakeling Directors J N Sheldrick |
| 30 | The general advisory council , which helps the board of governors on policy , met yesterday and strongly criticised Mr Hussey for hiring Mr Birt under conditions which allowed him to be paid as a freelance , thus avoiding tax . |