Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] on the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 2 | It is unrealistic in these times to work on the assumption that profit sharing ratios , once fixed , are sacrosanct only ever to be changed when the number of partners changes . |
| 3 | They were essentially concerned with bartering about a price , for which purpose Gary and Aggi had sufficient expertise to comment on the quality and value of the jewellery . |
| 4 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 5 | The package is controlled from the tablet 's ce , the only time you need to use the keyboard after loading the program is when you want to enter text to appear on the screen or for a filename when saving or loading pictures . |
| 6 | But y you a are asking the inspectors to proceed on the basis that all land within the six-mile radius of the city centre serves a greenbelt function ? |
| 7 | Since there was neither oxygen to fuel the processes of decay nor any scavenging animals to feed on the bodies and destroy them , the tiny carcasses remained complete as the settling mud particles slowly entombed them . |
| 8 | Yes , there are other buttons and settings to use on the machine or carriages , but these deal more with the needle selection of the design , rather than with the way the actual stitch is formed . |
| 9 | you can get little speakers to put on the side but they use loads of power they do . |
| 10 | My colleagues and I , therefore , are agreed that as a general rule it is undesirable for members of the judiciary to broadcast on the wireless or to appear on television … |
| 11 | For some technical reason certiorari used not to be available in such cases ; but the aggrieved party applied for mandamus to require the other parties to act on the footing that the visitor 's decision was invalid . |
| 12 | But when the defendant appeared at the Bow Street Magistrates ' Court to answer an information that he had committed the offence under section 5(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1988 of driving with excess alcohol in the blood , he pleaded not guilty and at the close of the case for the prosecution a submission was made that he had no case to answer on the ground that the officer 's requirement at Vine Street Police Station that he provide a specimen of blood had not been validly made in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 13 | Will he authorise the Medical Research Council to plan on the basis that the funding needed by Dr. John Sulston of the laboratory of molecular biology of Cambridge will be available to keep in this country work on the nematode project , as that work is the foundation of the human genome project which is the foundation of the future of medical research and biotechnology ? |
| 14 | He has brought a profound influence to bear on the belief that preventing illness is not simply a matter of treating the individual . |
| 15 | There were lambs to put on the hillsides and dragonflies swooped the surface of the lake , clear and still from east to west-sou'-west . |
| 16 | Costs had been taxed in the action at law but it was no business of the courts of law to decide on the amount that , in equity , the mortgagee would be allowed in a redemption action . |
| 17 | Allusion to Matt. 5 : 45 , ‘ for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good , and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust ’ . |
| 18 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 19 | Mills does n't expect REM to go on the road until after their 1993 record is released . |
| 20 | He said that the FIA tribunal had no right to rule on the case until a hearing in Portugal and should not have heard representation from Mansell and Ferrari at a hearing in Paris last Thursday . |
| 21 | The FIA tribunal postponed any decision , but Balestre said it had no right to rule on the case until after the Portuguese hearing and should not have heard representation . |
| 22 | We 'll move to the m move to vote on the motion as moved by Councillor . |
| 23 | Cashman shouted , ignoring Matt 's hand , walking across the room to lean on the desk as though he was finding it difficult to remain upright without support . |
| 24 | A further point is that there is no need to rely on the right unless the decompilation is carried out to a substantial part of the original program ( there is no infringement to excuse otherwise ) . |
| 25 | One of the most fabulously rich of the Shahs ministers , Hushand Ansary , has obtained permission to leave on the grounds that he had an urgent appointment with Henry Kissinger . |
| 26 | They will not get an opportunity to vote on the deal because AMP says that the acquisition does not involve a change in its main activities . |
| 27 | I would advise anyone taken to Castlereagh to sit on the floor and say the Rosary for seven days . |
| 28 | Democrats accused Bush of timing the veto to capitalize on the fact that public attention was currently focused on the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings [ see p. 38510 ] . |
| 29 | She wants to run through them all and then you 've got to fill in a piece of paper on which three pieces you 'd like to do , and al you know , she wants the cheque and full details of what name to go on the certificate and that sort of thing . |
| 30 | Otherwise there are now further problems to report on the buses or trains . |