Example sentences of "an [noun sg] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there would be no total prohibition on the payment out of trust monies subsequent to the death by virtue of the fact that there would be £1M of relevant income ready to be used in an assessment on any beneficiaries under TA 1988 , s740 . |
| 2 | Head of Department : ‘ We make an assessment on three criteria , then combine them to give a mark out of 10 . ’ |
| 3 | Where teaching was unsatisfactory this was because of an over-dependence on formal lectures . |
| 4 | This newsletter gives an update on current activities — I hope you will find it useful . |
| 5 | A look behind the scenes and an update on current issues . |
| 6 | 's involvement in free range chicken production is proving a highly successful and profitable venture — poultry manager , , gives an update on recent developments . |
| 7 | An update on various reports . |
| 8 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the Government drew attention to the need to reconsider traditional teaching techniques in order to promote and encourage the development of oral skills : ‘ In the majority of primary and middle schools there is an over-concentration on practising skills in literacy and numeracy … much work is too closely directed by the teacher and there is little chance for oral discussion . ’ |
| 9 | The harmonization of laws affecting domestic transactions in member States has an effect on international transactions in that within the field covered by the harmonizing measures these obviate the need to resort to conflict of laws rules and thus achieve one of the objectives of a Convention regulating international transactions . |
| 10 | Loss of fish , of course , has an effect on fish-eating birds and in Scandinavia and North America ospreys and divers are declining due to lack of food . |
| 11 | When it comes to plants , micro-organisms and tissue culture systems , the remedy picture as worked out for human patients is wholly inappropriate , and experiments have to be conducted on the basis of trial and error to see if particular remedies have an effect on particular plants or micro-organisms . |
| 12 | The Comintern , however , disapproving strongly of these tactics , obliged the Mexican Communists ’ to send directives to the peasant leaders instructing them to turn their arms against the government and fight an action on two fronts with a view to precipitating social revolution' ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 6 ) . |
| 13 | Junior army officers support the idea of a volunteer force and one of their leaders , Major Vladimir Lopatin , is now an adviser on military affairs to Mr Yeltsin . |
| 14 | I leave with him the thought , especially as Labour is apparently committed to adding another £9 a week to national insurance contributions for 3 million or more people , that if such a policy had been pursued , contributions for an employee on average earnings and his employer would now be about £9 a week more than they are . |
| 15 | In order to accomplish this , and to place the deaf before the public in their true light and proper position , as useful members of the community at large , the formation of an Association on American lines is most desirable . |
| 16 | There must be an intention on both sides for there to be legal consequences in the event of a breach , in order to constitute a binding contract . |
| 17 | The parliament dissolved in February 1990 passed a comprehensive Companies Act and an Act on Foreign Investments in 1988 , and in 1989 an act on conversion of state enterprises and co-operatives into companies and also a statute reforming the land law in state and co-operative ownership . |
| 18 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 19 | As he is an expert on such matters , the hon. Gentleman knows better than I that public prosecutions in Scotland are a matter for the Lord Advocate . |
| 20 | Ali was an expert on such matters . |
| 21 | Whereas I , wrote Harsnet , have become something of an expert on real endings , on true endings . |
| 22 | Admiral Bryson , an expert on guided weapons , was not of conventional lord lieutenant stock . |
| 23 | An expert on Oriental destinations , Mr Collins labelled Angkor the greatest tourist asset in South-east Asia , and the keystone of its future development . |
| 24 | In seventeen years as a schoolmaster , first at St Peter 's School , Galashiels , and from 1875 at Madras College , St Andrews , Lapworth became an expert on these fossils , the graptolites , and trained himself in detailed geological mapping and in visualizing the attitude and arrangement of strata in three dimensions . |
| 25 | If you 're an expert on these things these er Amstrad things because I know some they do tend to lose things do n't they to disappear of you just ca n't get it back out erm can anyone help cos she 's stuck with it , seven six double one three four . |
| 26 | This is just one that 's come to mind , I 'm not saying it 's the correct one at this stage because as I have said I would like to go away an work on these plans |
| 27 | The works of Trubar and his contemporaries were rediscovered and had an influence on such figures in the Yugoslav renaissance as Kopitar and Vuk Karadžić . |
| 28 | Targets ( or intermediate variables ) are the variables through which government actions have an influence on macroeconomic objectives . |
| 29 | However , government expenditure and taxation flows also exert an influence on monetary variables — and therefore affect economic activity — since the size and financing of the public sector borrowing requirement ( negative or positive ) are crucial elements in the determination of the money supply and interest rates . |
| 30 | Picasso had never shown publicly at the big Salons , but Braque 's Cubist works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1909 were widely discussed and were undoubtedly an influence on some painters , while they must have helped others to interpret Cézanne in a more intellectual , objective way . |