Example sentences of "in [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them do feel that they have succeeded in bringing on board the majority of people in a country such as this to support their claims . |
| 2 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 3 | In reflecting on the conflicts between freedom and responsibility , Burke said : |
| 4 | In reflecting on the subject of very large animals , some questions concerning evolution and thermoregulation arise . |
| 5 | In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening . |
| 6 | If practitioners can become aware of and able to understand and transcend these complicated messages from research , however , not only may they become more confident in reflecting on their knowledge when making such judgements , they may also become more confident in discussing these complexities and difficulties with both other professionals and the wider public , thus enhancing social understanding of the day-to-day realities of work in this area . |
| 7 | In reflecting on the varying complementarities of verse and prose in Shakespeare , then , we might ponder over van Gennep 's analysis of what he called ‘ the pivoting of the sacred ’ . |
| 8 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 9 | In reflecting on his own practices as an antiracist teacher , Philip Cohen too argues for more nuanced and localized initiatives to replace what he sees as the overly prescriptive and universalistic policies of the past . |
| 10 | In reflecting on the cultural change that has come about in Edinburgh and beyond , the professor voices concerns which sound remarkably like those of Pat Kane , not noted for his establishment views . |
| 11 | Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March . |
| 12 | If he has used it to swell his bank balance , it will be presumed that , in drawing on that balance , he has drawn out his own money before touching trust money ; if he has made an investment with trust money — even an investment which is itself a breach of trust — that investment is still trust property , to which the trustees ’ creditors have no claim . |
| 13 | This study breaks new ground in drawing on the women 's memories of the caring experience once it is over . |
| 14 | The research is therefore intended to contribute to this theoretical debate and , in drawing on field work over a period of nearly twenty years , to consider critically the applicability of ideas like discourse to a particular ethnographic case . |
| 15 | Lawrence does not neglect sound effects in impressing on us the harsh sensory qualities of the industrial scene . |
| 16 | The volume , at HK$2.12 billion ( £160m ) , was marginally higher than it was in trading on the market on Tuesday , but it did not suggest a rush of sellers . |
| 17 | High Street stores including Marks & Spencer , Boots and Argos were among the best performers in trading on hopes that consumer spending is at last picking up . |
| 18 | The rouble fell in trading on Sept. 22 from US$1.00=205.50 roubles to US$1.00=241 roubles . |
| 19 | Pizarro had been instrumental in launching on April 2 a new alliance of 13 left-wing groups , Democratic Convergence ( Convergencia Democrática ) , whose leaders were now expected to support Navarro 's presidential campaign . |
| 20 | President Frederick Chiluba faced a growing crisis when two Cabinet ministers who had resigned earlier in the month took part in launching on July 25 of a new party , the Caucus for National Unity ( CNU ) . |
| 21 | Vincent , overcome with gratitude for this ready help , apologised several times over for his presumption in landing on Mauve 's doorstep without warning . |
| 22 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 23 | Referring to widespread stresses Hare reviewed the carrying capacity of the earth , and planetary air pollution and climatic change with considerable vision and in ending on a fairly optimistic note commented : |
| 24 | There wo n't be any fun in walking on the beach unless you enjoy doing battle with the storm . |
| 25 | Those factors give them a competitive advantage in bidding on contracts . |
| 26 | There was little glory for Italy in dying on the Russian front , as so many did in 1942 . |
| 27 | I 've just had a phone call in I 've just erm had a phone call from a conference company and she and part of her research the woman in came on one of my courses to just see what the background and what we were doing . |
| 28 | Five factors created difficulties : delays in passing on information ; competing professional objectives ( criminal investigation or assessment of child protection risk ) ; unrealistic expectations of the powers and responsibilities of social work departments ; disputes over control or management of a case ; and procedural inexperience . |
| 29 | In some chapters of this book we have indeed thought of the individual organism as an agent , striving to maximize its success in passing on all its genes . |
| 30 | Rivals with a genetic tendency to resist manipulation would actually be less successful in passing on genes , because of the economic costs of resisting . |