Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , by virtue of being on the rota of solicitors , the advocate has undergone self-evaluation whereby he indicates publicly that he is competent to deal with criminal matters . |
| 2 | He emphasised that in dismissing McCrory 's application for judicial review he was not imposing a ban on the wearing of poppies in prison . |
| 3 | The city provost and his marshals became more organised , clamping down more ruthlessly on the legion of thieves which flourished in the slums around the Rue Saint Antoine . |
| 4 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 5 | Everyone 's guide to tulips , daffodils and lilies ; August 1 Focusing on the splendour of camellias , rhododendrons and magnolias ; |
| 6 | The overestimation of estimated risk is at first sight surprising , both because the common assumption that an underestimation of true risk might be a major cause of road accidents ( e.g. Evans , 1991 , ‘ among the factors contributing to drivers ’ speed choice is a systematic underestimation of the probability that they will be killed ’ , p.152 ) and on the basis of previous research on the estimation of risks . |
| 7 | The Doppler effect is an example of the effect of the movement of a radiating body on the wavelength of radiations . |
| 8 | Of the famous Lavra Monastery on the ridge of hills overlooking the Dnieper river on the outskirts of Kiev little exists from Medieval building . |
| 9 | To Victorian eyes , any interior from that earlier period might have seemed underfurnished ; but the construction that George Eliot puts on the dominance of walls and ceiling is decisively Victorian in its moral emphasis : ‘ in walking through these rooms with their splendid ceilings and their meagre furniture , which tell how all the spare money had been absorbed before personal comfort was thought of , I have felt that there dwelt in this old English baronet some of that sublime spirit which distinguishes art from luxury , and worships beauty apart from self-indulgence ’ . |
| 10 | Following the inquiry 's recommendations , in February 1989 , the Secretary of State issued a Circular on the discharge of patients from hospital ( HC(89)5 ) , and in September 1990 followed this with the Circular on the care programme approach , stating that from April 1991 all patients leaving hospital should be the subjects of care programmes , and that in September 1991 regions should report back on the implementation of this policy . |
| 11 | The main participants were the People 's Party of Free Russia led by Rutskoi , the Democratic Party of Russia ( which thus withdrew support from the government ) and the Union of Renewal ( based on the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs ) . |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia had established a trade mission in Beijing in August 1989 , but relations between the two countries had become strained following the suppression of Moslem revolts in the Chinese western autonomous region of Xinjiang Uygur in April 1990 , which resulted in 23 deaths and in restrictions on the building of mosques and in the importation of Islamic literature [ see also p. 37373 ] . |
| 13 | The manifesto contains a promise to invest £6,300 million over the next three years in the trunk road and motorway network , with concentration on the building of bypasses , a further 40 of which will be opened by 1995 . |
| 14 | Or when he meditates on The Price of Bras : |
| 15 | What might be called the traditional view of the effect of the capital structure on the price of shares is that there is an optimal debt-equity mix which will maximize the value of the company 's securities . |
| 16 | What you do depends on the type of weeds concerned , the time of the year , the weather and where they grow . |
| 17 | MPAs should be given guidance on the type of conditions which may become relevant , including those relating to compensation . |
| 18 | Both assume that the nature of government , indeed the existence of a state at all , depends on the type of resources available to a regime , and the ways in which these resources may be transferred . |
| 19 | This code depends on the type of lenses you need and also decides the maximum amount of help the voucher can give you . |
| 20 | If the last counter-offer came from the buyer , then the seller will signify acceptance ( depending on the type of goods and the nature of the transaction concerned ) when he ei ther appropriates goods to the contract , puts their manufacture in hand , or delivers them to the buyer . |
| 21 | In fact , the statistics on the type of problems on which advice is sought have remained remarkably constant since 1973/74 . |
| 22 | The amount of report in each category was highly dependent on the type of roads ( which they divide into residential , arterial and shopping ) . |
| 23 | Since the SSL had received an increasing number of enquiries about standards , and as BSI now places restrictions on the type of standards it is willing to lend , the SSL now has complete sets of the Standards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers ( IEEE ) and the American Society for Testing of Materials ( ASTM ) , and Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique ( CCITT ) blue books . |
| 24 | The form of animal husbandry adopted depends on the type of facilities available and the nature of the experiments . |
| 25 | Paragraph 4.15 of the non-technical summary rightly states : ’ there will be restrictions on the type of watersports that can be carried out in the Bay . |
| 26 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 27 | But those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US Transportation Secretary , Federico Pena , also laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 28 | A company 's competitive position no longer ( solely ) depends on its internal capabilities ; it also depends on the type of relationships it has been able to establish with other firms and the scope of those relationships . |
| 29 | Historians working on the history of crafts , trades , housing and furniture have also made significant advances in their subject by using probate inventories . |
| 30 | More time and energy has been expended on the history of roads and tracks than on any other feature in the English landscape and most of it to little effect . |