Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding . |
| 2 | It 's bad enough having to rely on old daddy Reagan and Maggie Thatcher . |
| 3 | The CNAA was constantly having to negotiate on uncertain frontiers , and interpret and define forms of higher education for which there were no clear precedents or guidelines . |
| 4 | We do not know whether all learning depends on similar processes , or whether , in higher animals , it also involves the creation or loss of connections . |
| 5 | So , we ca n't use the fact that Earth has life to conclude that life must be probable enough to have arisen on another planet . |
| 6 | For one thing , she was n't cold-blooded enough to have capitalised on those moments . |
| 7 | Thank you Chairman you will only agree concentrate on this business over traffic calming . |
| 8 | possibly also they might not want to go on national television |
| 9 | I do not want to concentrate on procedural matters , but , as the hon. Gentleman said , it is curious that the Bill has not been introduced by the Government , especially as the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Bill has just completed its Committee stage . |
| 10 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 11 | A spokesman said : ‘ These include Government plans to charge VAT on coal , gas and electricity bills — a move which could hit the pockets of millions of older people throughout the UK , including many of the 100,000 pensioners in Northern Ireland , who are already struggling to survive on low pensions and reduced income . ’ |
| 12 | But we do not need to rely on actual mistakes in the past . |
| 13 | This would ensure that most pensioners would not need to rely on means-tested benefits . |
| 14 | Many believed that the United States did not need to intervene on this scale in the international economy . |
| 15 | Now , as I said in one of the quotes that we were talking about , a psychological explanation does not need to rest on physiological causes . |
| 16 | But we can not expect to live on this inheritance for ever . |
| 17 | It marked the second French defeat in a year ; it fully restored to the English their military reputation which was no longer seen to depend on one man , Henry V ; and , most important of all , it opened the way southwards for further advance into central France . |
| 18 | But viewers soon came to rely on Central South as their major source of regional news . |
| 19 | We wo n't be printing names ; this is not going to be a dealer persecution service , nor even a personal arbitration service such as Which ? magazine 's ‘ Personal Service ’ , because we simply can not become involved on that level . |
| 20 | This is a hallowed statement signifying that the terms set out are nothing more than an intention and will not become binding on any party until a formal contract has been negotiated , executed and exchanged . |
| 21 | Sorry , I know you do n't understand , and you 're not going to understand on this program . |
| 22 | Since then , Bonar 's African operations — hit hard by political upheavals and devaluation — have largely had to survive on local earnings , with little or no investment from their Scottish parent . |
| 23 | I remind the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) — he seems not to wish to rise on these matters — that the letter from the Labour party candidate to the trust applicant reads : ’ Were you to do this ’ — continue with the trust — ’ in the face of so much opposition , it could certainly be argued by an incoming Labour Administration that you had contributed to your own redundancy . ’ |
| 24 | Yet what we normally get to see on British cinema screens represents a small slice of what is produced globally . |
| 25 | The lower-ranking mandarins who agreed to work as interpreters were rewarded with big tracts of good rice-growing land in the Mekong delta , and the idea soon began to catch on that collaborating paid . |
| 26 | A centre will not have to take on devolved responsibility at a level which it is unwilling to accept — and SCOTVEC will not offer devolved responsibility to a centre whose internal quality systems are not ready for that responsibility . |
| 27 | It is a pity that she could not have elaborated on several points , and provided a fuller answer to the question she herself raises on p. 101 : " When is it … perfectly appropriate to tell jokes and play with words ? " |
| 28 | A case 's merit should not have to depend on strong-arm tactics . |
| 29 | He does not have to believe on reasonable grounds that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and so on : Lambert [ 1972 ] Crim LR 422 , where the accused threatened to tell the victim 's employers of his affair with the accused 's wife . |
| 30 | She should not have come on this picnic . |