Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] on an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless there is a specific provision about this in the expert clause ( see 8.15.10 ) , the expert will have less authority to impose disclosure on an unwilling party : but he can draw adverse inferences from the failure to disclose . |
| 2 | This was necessary in order to provide the same level of performance as our old manual system where , in order to obtain information on an individual employee , we would simply look at an employee card which was filed in surname order within department ; |
| 3 | This resolves any remaining doubt about whether the court has power to award interest on an interlocutory judgment whether on default or acknowledgement of service , notice of intention to defend or pleading or on an admission of liability . |
| 4 | There 's probably nothing in it and it would be dreadful to cast suspicion on an innocent person . ’ |
| 5 | Lenny Sinken , a lawyer for the Washington-based Christic Institute , wants the mission delayed for 18 months while Nasa studies alternative power sources or arranges for Galileo to leave Earth on an unmanned rocket , less prone to failure than the shuttle . |
| 6 | Gerald was impatient : ‘ Do we have to waste time on an empty box ? ’ |
| 7 | US oil production over the past decade has failed to match consumption on an annual basis by amounts varying between 217 million tonnes in 1982 and 400 million tonnes in 1978 . |
| 8 | A student from Darlington 's German twin-town has travelled to Britain to study life on an English newspaper . |
| 9 | Open-Plan Go had turned out to be a game of placing black and white stones on a grid to claim territory on an infinite board . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to get information on an old theatre . |
| 11 | In the early days of the development of anthropology it was the fashion to place culture on an evolutionary ladder ranging from primitive to developed . |
| 12 | The court has the power to include interest on an interim payment but will rarely do so . |