Example sentences of "on [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) On reacting potassium chlorate ( vii ) ( potassium perchlorate ) , with fluorosulphonic acid a gas X is evolved |
| 2 | On July 21 the six groups formally agreed on a continued ceasefire and on maintaining opposition to forces of former President Siyad Barre in the south , and on respect for " coexistence and national unity " . |
| 3 | The ball had to be struck perfectly and Stewart , who has an enviable rhythm at all times , concentrated on maintaining balance . |
| 4 | If he does sport independently , he has to concentrate on maintaining control over any associated reactions which could knock him off balance as he makes a physical effort . |
| 5 | This year 's Better Environment Awards for Industry include a new category : for companies with bright ideas on recovering waste . |
| 6 | This is very much in line with a wider emphasis on transmitting leadership qualities at Nottingham . |
| 7 | Perhaps the development of most interest to us in 1854 was that on an American initiative there had been an international conference at Brussels on shortening ship 's passages by producing better charts of winds and currents . |
| 8 | ‘ So far ’ , Iain Anderson reports , ‘ the group has been concentrating on gathering information on the courses available in the SCOTVEC and SEB systems to attempt to produce clear advice to teachers and pupils on the ‘ pathways ’ through the various options . |
| 9 | for instance , you may want to know about training , holidays or canteen facilities ( see p. 27 on gathering background information ) ; |
| 10 | George Pulman , QC , a member of the Bar Council 's working party on contingent fees , told a conference workshop on financing litigation that unlike other forms of contingency fee arrangement , lawyers would have no personal interest in the outcome of litigation and there would be no ‘ legal aid blackmail ’ — where cases are legally aided the normal ‘ costs follow the event ’ rule does not apply and defendants have to meet their own costs even when they win . |
| 11 | For those meals when family members insist on eating meat , keep a stock of vegetable pies and bakes in the freezer . |
| 12 | Early tennis players were already up and away but we dawdled on enjoying yoghurt and fruit , scrambled eggs , bacon and excellent Greek bread as we watched , across the turquoise Aegean below us , the sun changing the colours of the mountains behind Corinth . |
| 13 | The two sides also discussed the question of Japanese wives in North Korea , but reached no agreement on allowing home visits or welfare inspections . |
| 14 | Muccio handed Rhee an American note containing advice on handling inflation and referred to the unhappy precedent of China : |
| 15 | In some systems this increased efficiency shows savings between 30% and 50% on handling efficiency alone . |
| 16 | I can not believe that Access genuinely charge interest on repaid money , which means that his bill was a cock-up and the brass-faced hussy at Southend was a liar . |
| 17 | It is applied by adults who read a wide variety of material with a wide variety of ‘ value ’ ( the newspaper headlines , a new best-selling novel , the horoscope for the day , financial annual reports , personality gossip , a Jane Austen novel , holiday brochures to exotic places , hints on cooking rice ) but feel that children should only read things of lasting value and of clearly-identified worth . |
| 18 | People will spend more on cooking oil during the lifetime of the machine that they did on the initial capital cost of the machine . |
| 19 | Even though India is the world 's tenth largest industrial power , half of the energy its people consume , excluding animal energy , is spent on cooking food . |
| 20 | There is still no study that describes what families at different levels of earning spend on cooking energy , and how this changes over time . |
| 21 | A national policy on cooking energy also has to take into account the increasing interaction between the energy needs of the urban and rural areas . |
| 22 | So much so that occasionally Rosemary would insist on cooking supper and bringing it over — always with enough for an extra helping in case a guest should turn up . |
| 23 | On contacting Head of Personnel , the matter has been clarified and the instructions from Regional Managers are to be ignored . |
| 24 | Now Chris Sheehan , pivotal Starling , is an ex-user , and he 's clearly become psychologically dependent on using music as a cathartic way of coming to terms with his past . |
| 25 | The policy review sparked by controversy over British Coal 's original pit closure plans will be greeted with relief by offshore oil and gas companies that feared thousands of jobs , many of them in Scotland , could be hit by any restrictions placed on using gas in power stations . |
| 26 | Well as example of the kind of thing that we 've just finished doing is we 've run a course for local school teachers from East and West Sussex on using electronics in schools . |
| 27 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |
| 28 | The initial outlay is quite low and the information here is based on using equipment and ingredients that are freely available . |
| 29 | He believes there are serious gaps , such as the limitations on using computer information ( audit trails and logs for example ) as admissible evidence in court . |
| 30 | Ask your dentist or dental hygienist for advice on using floss . |