Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 In both kinds of work take care not to draw the yarn tightly at the back or the stitches will pucker on the right side of the work .
2 ‘ It has been announced by the Chancellor Neville Chamberlain that work will recommence on the hull designated 534 in Clydebank .
3 Czechoslovak Prime Minister Marian Calfa declared on Feb. 5 that work would recommence on the basis of the so-called " C " scheme , which envisaged the diversion of Danube waters .
4 Dáil members would act on a decision of the hierarchy once that hierarchy had said the teaching of the church was at issue , providing of course that the area in question was a grey one , a new territory not previously covered by the generally accepted sacred-profane spheres .
5 There are machines which will act on a spoken command .
6 They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped .
7 ‘ We must act on the complaints , ’ said a spokesman for the council .
8 Did Marsilid act on the enzyme in the brain and protect a transmitter amine from premature destruction ?
9 They represent an attempt to retain autonomy through prior expression of will , after the ability to choose and act on the choice has gone .
10 It did n't act on the living , like yeast .
11 But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here .
12 A trader should never act on the presumption of retrieving his circumstances when he had become flagrantly insolvent .
13 Various organisations and societies will act on the artist 's behalf in this respect and , in return for an annual subscription fee , will deal with necessary paperwork and pass on agreed fees .
14 The earliest the Treasury could act on the tax front , would be March 1991 .
15 The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body .
16 The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices .
17 He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly .
18 We would all act on the assumption that others were acting in a similar manner .
19 In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament .
20 The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it .
21 The parliamentary reserve is lifted , and the Government can act on the proposals in the Council without further reference to the House .
22 What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole .
23 Does he realise that if he will not act on the problem , it will not only produce a tide of human misery , but will bring to a clattering end any hope of economic recovery ?
24 Why do the Government not act on the huge injustices currently affecting business people , such as original lessee liability ?
25 Her Department should act on the recommendation that local officers should be able to top up that gap for claimants if no other resources are available .
26 The surroundings include all other objects which might act on the system under investigation .
27 … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women .
28 We can ready quickly , we can learn things quickly , we can cope , we can act on the whole rather better and rather quicker than the Continentals .
29 It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex .
30 You can buy on the spot .
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