Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but if he 's gon na come Saturday I mean we can hang on painting we ? |
| 2 | If the flight gets really ‘ exciting ’ , there is also the possibility the pilot will become so frightened that he will begin to hyperventilate , and this can bring on hypoxia and unconsciousness very quickly . |
| 3 | For example , strong tea , coffee , alcohol , fruit juice or highly spiced dishes can bring on Cystitis attacks or make them worse . |
| 4 | Before it is through , Pound 's centenary year will bring on indigestion in even the most devoted Poundians . |
| 5 | The factors that cause stress can also cause clinical depression and , surprisingly perhaps , as with stress , changes in life which are happy and positive may bring on depression as well as those associated with sadness and loss . |
| 6 | Lying down does not bring on sleep , only a sense of enormous rage . |
| 7 | Breathing can be affected : people suffer from shortness of breath or panic attacks in which they are unable to catch their breath at all ; stress may bring on asthma attacks if people are prone to them . |
| 8 | Sex at full term can bring on labour . |
| 9 | Cold drinks can bring on chilliness or cough . |
| 10 | Alternatively , you could carry on south out of As Cain , down a more minor road , to the village of Sare . |
| 11 | So but the residual element which would carry on south through Harrogate is |
| 12 | A central provision of the Act is section 3 , which provides that no person shall carry on investment business in the United Kingdom unless he is an authorised person or an exempted person as defined . |
| 13 | It carries on business in Jersey , and does not carry on business in England and Wales . |
| 14 | In Campbell v. Neilson ( 1897 ) 24 R. ( J. ) 28 , where the circumstances were similar , it was said by Lord Justice-General Robertson at p. 30 : " It is the transferee alone who can lawfully carry on business in the premises under the certificate . |
| 15 | If his bargain is concluded between quarterly meetings , he must wait until he obtains a transfer at the next quarterly meeting of the licensing board before he may legally carry on business on his own behalf under the licence . |
| 16 | Once a bankruptcy order is made , it is likely that the proceedings commenced by a Government department in the High Court under r 6.9(1) ( o ) will be transferred to the appropriate county court if the debtor does not reside or carry on business within the London insolvency district . |
| 17 | This ‘ business ’ characteristic does not require that he should regularly carry on business as an agent but simply that on the occasion in question he was acting as a business proposition . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of these Rules , a body corporate may carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships provided that before commencing any such business such body corporate shall have been recognised by the Council as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of such services and provided that at all times while carrying on such business it remains so recognised . |
| 19 | Practitioners are strongly advised to use Clause 3(a) as under the Rules a solicitors ' incorporated practice is permitted only to ‘ carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships . ’ |
| 20 | Practitioners are strongly advised to use Clause 3(a) as under the Rules a solicitors ' incorporated practice is permitted only to ‘ carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships . ’ |
| 21 | If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 22 | However , where a defendant does not reside or carry on business within the district of the court and he desires the action to be transferred to the court for the district in which he resides or carries on business , he may , after delivering a defence , counterclaim , or request for time for payment , apply ex parte in writing for an order to transfer the action to that court . |
| 23 | Commission officials , however , have argued that if given no alternative , fishermen will carry on fishing until there are no fish stocks left . |
| 24 | The solution being put forward is that a member of the RICS may only carry on practice as a surveyor through the medium of a company ( limited by shares or unlimited ) provided that he complies with the new conditionally approved regulations . |
| 25 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 26 | The nature of my duties both in the Province and in this House means that I have not yet had the pleasure and privilege of reading Dr. FitzGerald 's book , but I shall take on hearsay what the hon. Gentleman says about this entry . |
| 27 | They will take on responsibility for countryside management and access in the whole of the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) between Harting in the west and Eastbourne in the east , and will be consulted on significant planning applications in the area . |
| 28 | Surely it would be better to have Home Helps , Meals on Wheels , all that , and a Social Worker to advise and take on responsibility , than have to do it all yourself ? |
| 29 | The Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee has argued in vain that law centres should be treated as an essential part of the national network of legal services and that the Lord Chancellor should take on responsibility for their core funding . |
| 30 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |