Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should I seek to impose a legal limit on daily TV viewing , even supposing that it were enforceable ? |
| 2 | You 'll probably need to apply a liquid waterproofer on top of the mastic . |
| 3 | Flynn got all the really difficult contracts , or the ones John was unsure of being able to visit regularly ; Flynn was the one man John would trust to manage an entire contract on his own . |
| 4 | As a centenary project perhaps it will consider mounting a major display on the flip side of the Bowes legacy the despoiled Durham countryside , and the heroic efforts still being made to repair the damage . |
| 5 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 6 | The early dimetrodon , as we have seen , did appear to have a cooling device on its back , with the spines helping to increase the creature 's surface-to-mass ratio . |
| 7 | This may appear to place a heavy burden on the plaintiff but it has been held that he does not have to identify the exact person responsible for the defect ( Grant v Australian Knitting Mills ) . |
| 8 | He 's got to apply for an extended licence so we can stay open an extra hour on August Bank Holiday , that 's all . |
| 9 | It is our feeling that the council needs to be encouraged to take that attitude because if we have a change of policy as the District Council are asking , so that the number of sites released from industrial use is compensated by new green field sites being allocated , then it seems a little bit like a blank cheque to us and we should like to see a firmer control on the amount of land that is lost to development and in seeing that firmer control we 'd like to put pressure on the District Council by not offering them compensation |
| 10 | I would like to suggest an alternative interview on Wednesday 8 September 1993 at the above address at 2.00 pm . |
| 11 | Mrs Bottomley , representing ‘ caring Conservatism ’ , will face Mr Michael Portillo , the new Treasury Chief Secretary , who is equally keen to establish his Right-wing credentials by demonstrating he can keep keep a tight grip on the public purse strings . |
| 12 | Yes , that 's right , I 'd like to raise a separate point on that later on rather than the accuracy ones for this , do the accuracy ones first . |
| 13 | I 'd like to have a good head on me . |
| 14 | Could I get I 'd like to get an Irish accent on the Where would she be ? |
| 15 | I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended . |
| 16 | I 'd just like to say a few words on the conferences that I attended . |
| 17 | We are already too stretched , and the law does not give us automatic ex access to time off for training , but we have got to ask , and we should commit the G M B to lobby for an extension of existing laws , and to lobby for various E C funds , and then we can begin to make a real impact on the environment . |
| 18 | Would you like to make a small report on that , Mr Vanbrugh ? |
| 19 | Music and horse racing are Quinn 's great passions outside football and when his playing days are over he would like to make a new career on the turf . |
| 20 | Yet the reality is that it is only in companies where each shareholder has a sufficiently substantial stake in the company to make it worth his or her while performing the tasks of monitoring and supervising the behaviour of the directors that this constitutional framework can hope to provide an adequate control on the behaviour of directors . |
| 21 | Yes , Yes , Yes : - ) I must have formed a mental block on the exact details due to the severe trauma involved ! |
| 22 | Though his extravagance was well rewarded , it must have placed a severe strain on the house 's finances . |
| 23 | Someone up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam . |
| 24 | It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor . |
| 25 | One might have expected a sadistic Nightmare On Elm Street lyric to emerge from such interests , but instead he wrote the wonderfully moving ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ and later made a point of condemning Myra Hindley . |
| 26 | I have to have regard to the fact that there is another statement after this one and that there is such pressure on the debate on the Gracious Speech that I shall have to impose a 10-minute limit on speeches . |
| 27 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 28 | Had vocation advisors been around they would doubtless have recommended a commercial future on the scientific side . |
| 29 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 30 | I dismissed this concept because the seriality of placement would have imposed a formal composition on the hall isolating the installation from the conditions and functions of the architecture . |