Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] on the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 2 | ‘ The residents are all going to oppose this , and a lot of them are planning to go along on the day of the appeal , ’ she said . |
| 3 | The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats . |
| 4 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 5 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 6 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 7 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 8 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 9 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 10 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 11 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 12 | Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 14 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 15 | I was able to try out on the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy some local antidotes to the disease he had diagnosed a decade before . |
| 16 | Er I wanted to come back on the question of regeneration and the opportunities in Leeds . |
| 17 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 18 | It was time for News on Sunday to set off on the trail of the people and organizations who had theorized about the prospects for a popular left-wing newspaper for so long . |
| 19 | B While the legends of the First Age are a ‘ calque ’ , then , their resemblance to a known pattern directs us primarily to difference from that pattern ; the elvishness of the elves is meant to reflect back on the humanity of man . |
| 20 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 21 | Despite an obvious desire to hold out against its bigger competitors , Phillips have been forced to give in on the issue of increased buyers ' premium . |
| 22 | A FAST-TRACK law to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland is to be backed by the Government . |
| 23 | NEW LAWS to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland were ‘ nodded through ’ without dissent in the Commons yesterday . |
| 24 | And the RUC is urging for public help to clamp down on the level of incidents throughout the province . |
| 25 | Getting boot Rhuddlan Borough Council is to clamp down on the number of car boot sales being held regularly at various places , although occasional sales for charities may still be allowed . |
| 26 | Anders Ljungh , the bank 's vice-president for finance , left the bank 's first annual meeting before its official opening today , to report back on the state of the offices in Leadenhall Street , immediately opposite the Baltic Exchange . |
| 27 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 28 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 29 | However , despite an apparent dictum to the contrary , the Torquay Hotel principle does not , it is submitted , extend to imposing liability in a case where A has , without any unlawful act , done no more than persuade B to exercise an option open to him under his contract with C , for example , to terminate it by proper notice , for so to hold would be to draw an indefensible distinction between existing , but terminable , relationships and those which are merely prospective , and render it necessary to fall back on the defence of justification in order , for example , lawfully to persuade an employee to change his employment for higher pay . |
| 30 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |