Example sentences of "from [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the NHS is under threat from overspending on administration while ignoring clinical costs . |
| 2 | ‘ It makes a change from jogging on the spot to ‘ Sesame 's Treet ’ , ’ announced one girl in that unavoidable staple of female club culture , the loo queue . |
| 3 | This is essentially what has been done at Foster Wheeler over the past six years , and the views expressed in this paper arise largely from reflecting on the experiences of that project . |
| 4 | If , on the Other hand , there is a violent distortion of the market in a particular case , as for example when only one tug-boat is available to save a ship from foundering on a reef , then the element of voluntariness is missing . |
| 5 | All may have been quiet on the 808 State front over the last year but , far from resting on their laurels , the techno titans have been locked in the studio , ripping it up on the mixing desk . |
| 6 | But far from resting on its laurels the company now plans to make major inroads in the American market . |
| 7 | It does not arise , as Letterman imagines , from impressing on women your sympathy and sensitivity to their imagined plight . |
| 8 | Over the next few days , Syrian George taped an assortment of Arab cab-drivers in Tel Aviv broadcasting on taxi frequencies with r bits and pieces of low-level intelligence picked up from observations while driving around town and from eavesdropping on their fares ' back-seat conversations . |
| 9 | However , the second element must always be present : typically there are at least short-run gains from reneging on an agreement and so tacit collusion requires the perception that to do so would in the end turn out to be unprofitable because of punitive reactions by the other firms . |
| 10 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 11 | In Stoke-on-Trent City Council v. B&Q ; PLC and Norwich City Council v. B&Q ; PLC [ 1991 ] 2 WLR 42 the High Court granted injunctions to the two plaintiff councils restraining B&Q ; PLC from trading on a Sunday . |
| 12 | This was an appeal by leave dated 18 November 1991 of the House of Lords ( Lord Bridge of Harwich , Lord Ackner and Lord Browne-Wilkinson ) by the appellants , Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council , from the judgment dated 30 April 1991 of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon , Mann and Beldam L.JJ. ) allowing the appeal of the respondents , Wickes Building Supplies Ltd. , from the judgment dated 14 May 1990 of Mervyn Davies J. granting the appellants an interlocutory injunction to restrain the respondents from trading on Sunday contrary to section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 , within the appellants ' administrative area . |
| 13 | The Tokyo regulatory exchange also barred the offending companies from trading on its floor for a period of two days , and the City of Tokyo was reported to have withdrawn some commission work from them . |
| 14 | In retaliation , the Serbian authorities in Kosovo prevented Albanians who had heeded the strike call from returning on Sept. 4 to jobs in state-owned shops , government inspectors having patrolled towns during the strike to padlock the doors of Albanian-run enterprises . |
| 15 | In Oz David Widgery took time off from musing on the revolution to provide an obituary for Jack Kerouac , one of the people with whom the entire movement had started . |
| 16 | This conclusion was based on the premises that ( 1 ) it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of a provision of Community law ; ( 2 ) article 30 was such a provision ; ( 3 ) if Wickes is right that section 47 of the Act of 1950 is incompatible with article 30 , it has a current right to open its stores for Sunday trading , and it is the duty of the national court to protect that right ; ( 4 ) in the absence of an undertaking in damages , Wickes will have been restrained from opening on Sundays , without any right to compensation ; ( 5 ) there is no need for this purpose to assess the strength of Wickes ' challenge to section 47 on the basis of article 30 , it being enough that the challenge is not without foundation : see [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 985 , 993 , per Dillon L.J. , and pp. 999–1000 , per Mann L.J . |
| 17 | The respondent is entitled to argue that section 18 should be construed in a way favourable to him and for that reason I have refrained from pronouncing on that matter . |
| 18 | On harebells , primroses , rabbits and just the sheer pleasure people get from walking on such familiar , ancient places , too . |
| 19 | Sometimes I feel frightened and sometimes tired from walking on a knife 's edge , and also from seeing too many beautiful things . |
| 20 | The two abrupt changes in plot — from walking on the deck to the water , and from the water to the next world — are typical of the " scene-shift " phenomenon of dreaming . |
| 21 | You know , trying stop you from walking on the |
| 22 | Increasingly , they have been linked to more nefarious activities , from cheating on taxes to financing cocaine traffickers . |
| 23 | In general , the more heavily firms discount the future ( i.e. the higher their cost of capital ) the smaller will be the present value of future losses of profit caused by punishment , relative to the immediate gains from cheating on an agreement . |
| 24 | In the present context the time-inconsistency problem suggests that the optimal combination of unemployment and inflation can only be achieved if there is some effective restraint to prevent the government from cheating on a commitment to zero inflation . |
| 25 | The House summoned him to attend in August , and in October Rushbrooke was searched for arms ; in mid-November he was again summoned , accused of sending the king money and discouraging the Bury townsmen from contributing on the Propositions . |
| 26 | They also prevented the general public from landing on the island , one of the most interesting and spectacular in Scotland . |
| 27 | Heavy seas prevented salvage teams from landing on the wreck and hampered the clean-up operation . |
| 28 | Most of the Party 's agitational work was devoted to the very small number of local kolkhozy , as if , like Catherine the Great , it sought to derive comfort from over-concentrating on its equivalents of Potemkin 's model villages . |
| 29 | A lengthy illness prevented her from appearing on Alice Faye 's ‘ This Is Your Life ’ tribute a couple of years ago . |
| 30 | This controversial political lineage caused the Republican Party establishment to disown him , and in several states there were plans to attempt to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot papers . |