Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
2 | Erikson suggests that at different phases of life an individual faces a particular psycho-social problem which needs to be resolved before moving on to the next phase . |
3 | While Raybestos had succeeded in carrying on despite the intense opposition of two communities , it was unable to survive the actions of its own workers fighting the hazards of asbestos at the point of production . |
4 | Jumpman lives is another excellent game from Apogee which gives you the arcade action of video games combined with the brain teasing problems to be solved before carrying on to the next stage . |
5 | This provided a confidence that came from getting on with the job . ’ |
6 | Note the tension produced by holding on to the passing note of A♯ in bars 12 and 16 , and the ‘ heavy ’ sound of the minor 3rd ( G natural ) against the E7 chord in bar 18 , anticipating the ♭7th of the A7 to follow . |
7 | The questions at the end of each chapter have been designed to assist students to test that the reading has been understood before moving on to the next chapter . |
8 | These characteristics lead to a generally well-controlled and efficient method of production , whose main disadvantage is the time-delay caused by the queueing effect of individual units waiting for the batch to be completed before moving on to the next operation . |
9 | Although Crawford had two safety wires attached to him , he succeeded in holding on to the car during all the filming . |
10 | Bottles and cans started to fly as the Indians were stopped from running on to the pitch to mob the batsmen by burly stewards . |
11 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
12 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
13 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
14 | But as David Bull says in his reply , even if we have misgivings about the way any campaign is handled , let's hope we are not deterred from getting on with the job in hand ! |
15 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
16 | Jonathan Russell , 27 , fell after climbing on to the battlements to take photographs . |
17 | Yet it was so , for when we docked at Rangoon next morning civil evacuation had been ordered , to be completed within forty-eight hours , and the wharves were black with excited refugees , who insisted on crowding on to the boat before we could get off . |
18 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
19 | Tell you what , Jacqui and I were thinking of tootling on to the midnight matinee at the Parthenon after this lot . |
20 | If you are thinking of heading on towards the Capital there 's no such problems there , the M4 the M40 and the M25 running quite nicely this evening . |
21 | However , they had been plunged into a welter of activity in which they tried to respond to urgent and practical matters placed before them and it is , therefore , not surprising that a commonly held view was that ‘ the best form of training comes from getting on with the job ’ . |