Example sentences of "on [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person on whom a notice is served may appeal against the notice , or any terms of it , to an industrial tribunal . |
| 2 | He was part of a new phenomenon : twentyish actors on whom a studio could hang a flick , stars to match the new , young movie audience . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by a person on whom a notice has been served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there the information or documents required by that notice and of exercising the powers conferred by subsection ( 5 ) of that section . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |
| 5 | Section 40(1) allows the Bank of England 's officers to enter the premises of a person on whom a section 39 notice has been served for the purpose of obtaining the information or documents required , with no protection of reasonable excuse accorded to the person on whom the notice was served ; indeed any obstruction will , under subsection ( 3 ) , expose that person to the risk of prosecution . |
| 6 | Colman 's film credits are a roll-call of Hollywood movies at their prewar and most Anglophile best : Bulldog Drummond ( 1929 ) , Raffles ( 1930 ) , Cynara ( 1932 ) , Clive of India ( 1935 ) , A Tale of Two Cities ( 1935 ) , Under Two Flags ( 1936 ) , Lost Horizon ( 1937 ) , and The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) , all establishing Colman as one of the richest and most reliable of the Hollywood raj , the man on whom a whole later generation of expatriates , led by David Niven [ q.v. ] , modelled themselves and their officer-and-gentlemanly acting careers . |
| 7 | It would be difficult to dramatise Horton into a laboratory wizard on whom a man 's freedom might depend . |
| 8 | Gregory , who had been teaching English in Thailand for two years , has said she was acting as a courier for Lock , on whom no drugs were found . |
| 9 | Right at the outset we are alerted to the tact that Mary Frith , the real-life cross-dresser on whom the play is based , is being given a more virtuous image than she in fact possessed ( dedication , ll. 19 ff. ; prologue , ll. 26 — 7 ) . |
| 10 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 11 | He is , variously , a militant secularist or a pious Muslim ; a socialist or a free-marketeer ; a proud Iraqi or a proud pan-Arabist ; the scourge of the West or the pragmatist on whom the West can safely rely . |
| 12 | The most colourful is Anthony Scrivener QC , on whom the odds are suddenly shortening . |
| 13 | To have that authority over members of the community one has to show , among other conditions imposed by the normal justification thesis , at the very least that members of the community on whom the scheme will impose some burdens have reason to contribute their share to the maintenance of the scheme . |
| 14 | While he was not typical , the notorious sadist , Lieutenant Colonel Muraviev , one of the former Tsarist officers on whom the Red Army was obliged to rely , vowed to hold the Ukraine by fire and the sword . |
| 15 | The royal ritual was closely associated with the history of Osiris , the divine prototype on whom the pharaohs modelled themselves by re-enacting his traditional deeds . |
| 16 | One such was a striking clock designed by Giovanni de' Dondi 's father Jacopo , on whom the surname ‘ del Orologio ’ was conferred . |
| 17 | Alton played as a team on whom the schedule was taking its toll . |
| 18 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 19 | The pope was father in God to the Romans , and to all men ; he was St Peter in person , the earthly representative of the apostle on whom the fame and fortune of the city most depended ; but he was also a petty tyrant — one of the ancient rulers who had failed to go away ; the symbol of all that was alien to the new found liberty so loved by the Italian city dwellers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 20 | rankled with the Caribbean public on whom the social and political significance was not lost . |
| 21 | At this time Moggach met the man on whom the character of Mac in the book is based , and as she recalls it : ‘ I became very rebellious and sort of opted out . ’ |
| 22 | He seemed more brusque and hostile than on the previous day , a man whose nerves were beginning to fray , a man on whom the pressure was mounting and who had decided to exert some pressure of his own . |
| 23 | Figaro , now promoted to personal valet , is to marry the countess 's vivacious maid Susanna , on whom the count has dishonourable designs . |
| 24 | This has been defined as ‘ systematic and continuous abuse of an elderly person by the carer , often though not always a relative on whom the elderly person is dependent for care ’ ( Cloke , 1983 , p. 2 ) . |
| 25 | One on whom the sun played even through the bed of snow cloud over the roofs of the Administration block . |
| 26 | Alongside the experts from the Commission for Restitution there will be input from representatives of the outside nations involved , and from the departments on whom the fate of the collections to a large extent depends the Ministry of Justice , the Ministry of Finance , the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Security . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the conclusions reached through therapeutic work with some patients can not be generalized to all mankind , or to human beings in very different cultural and social circumstances from those on whom the therapy was carried out . |
| 28 | When transmitted , the letter must be accompanied by certain other documents , intended for delivery to the person on whom the process , summons or subpoena is to be served , and all must be translated into the official language of the state of destination . |
| 29 | After 1789 , Bentham , who was among that distinguished band of foreigners on whom the Revolution conferred honorary French citizenship , saw that the people were capable of acting politically for themselves , and was converted to the general principle of political democracy . |
| 30 | SDP left-wingers were more neutralist and anti-American than their leaders , and anxious to see more radical domestic reforms but Brandt feared that greater radicalism would alienate the FDP , on whom the SDP still depended in the Bundestag . |