Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj -er] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers . |
| 2 | Madam Speaker , arising out of question time today , the leader of the house the leader of the house told the house that the Prime Minister has made a further statement on the back to basics policy , now since this has er we are told er permeated the whole of government policy since the prime minister 's speech to the party conference last October , is n't it time er that the Prime Minister was asked not to give statements to correspondents and at er press conferences , but made a statement to this house about the back to basics policy and at the very least , placed a copy of his speech and his thinkings on the back to basics policy in the library . |
| 3 | No one has had a greater influence on intellectual life in twentieth century Spain than Jos'e Ortega y Gasset ( 1883-1955 ) . |
| 4 | A plaque on a wall is admittedly not much to look at for those with a passion for working machinery and dramatic industrial landscapes , but this one marks the site of the foundation of that industry which has had a greater impact on civilization than any other . |
| 5 | They treat such dissertations in an entirely different way from Ph D theses , generally appearing to put a lower value on them as contributions to the science . |
| 6 | Evidence of the company 's determination to continue its remarkable expansion plan can be seen in a recent management restructuring , designed to give a sharper focus on key growth markets , such as the UK . |
| 7 | Warwick International , the TAED products manufacturer , has spent a further 140m on its Mostyn site . |
| 8 | The creation of a new party was also a more exciting enterprise which was expected to have a greater effect on public opinion : for the first twelve months — until the Falklands crisis arrived — the SDP gained much favourable publicity and appeared to be potentially successful . |
| 9 | That will be an uphill battle , and difficult to prove anyway , because the industry under private ownership needs to earn a higher return on capital — by several percentage points — than in public ownership to attract shareholders . |
| 10 | That will be an uphill battle , and difficult to prove anyway , because the industry under private ownership needs to earn a higher return on capital — by several percentage points — than in public ownership to attract shareholders . |
| 11 | The second quarter promised to show a further profit on both Charlie 's enterprises , and he warned Becky that he had his eye on the butcher 's shop , since the owner 's only boy had lost his life at Passchendaele . |
| 12 | He stared towards the point where the light had been , wanting to see a darker shape on darkness . |
| 13 | The conflict in Ireland is the most important of the case studies , and some of the broader themes have been selected to provide a wider perspective on this issue . |
| 14 | When individuals are mobile between local authorities , a local economy seeking to impose a higher tax on its upper-income residents would simply create an incentive for such residents to move to another locale . |
| 15 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 16 | It 's to help keep a better check on spending after complaints that some credit card outlets take too long getting signed slips to card issuers . |
| 17 | Today is going to have a greater significance on your life than you could ever imagine . |
| 18 | In other words , although they suppress the aberrant antibody , they suppress other antibody production too and also the production of blood cells , yet they seem to have a greater effect on the abnormal antibody than they do on normal ones and in quite large numbers of patients that have been treated in this way the side effects are really relatively slight . |
| 19 | In any event , the courts now seem to take a softer line on police practice so far as this can be discerned from the undiscussed elements in cases that reach the law reports for other reasons . |
| 20 | Mr Sydney Breeze returned to give a further talk on this subject and to relate many of his experiences during his long career as a top link GWR driver . |
| 21 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
| 22 | On the other hand , there were steps which de Gaulle might have taken in 1944 – 46 — steps which might have produced a better outcome on the ( to him ) all-important issue of the constitution and might also have bolstered his popularity . |
| 23 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 24 | The government , at no additional cost to the Exchequer , would have had a greater impact on the individual 's welfare . |
| 25 | These are not dramatic changes , but one might have hoped that Britain 's first woman Prime Minister would have taken a tougher line on women 's pay . |
| 26 | Had his life been prolonged , the writer thought it probable that he would have left a deeper mark on the science of the profession . |
| 27 | The organization planned to release a further report on atrocities committed by the Croatian forces against Serbs . |
| 28 | Non-fundholders wait ten months for some outpatient appointments , fundholders can bring the consultant to the surgery to see the patient within a couple of weeks ; this of course helps to get a quicker place on the operation waiting list . |
| 29 | Er men tend to have a lower pitch on the whole , erm th they 're louder and the 's due to their physiological differences , erm Jacqueline once said that , Men try to talk bigger than they are whereas women talk as though they 're smaller . |
| 30 | This is not intended to place a greater burden on recognised bodies than on traditional practices . |