Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stewart added his voice to other MEPs in the region in stressing that Objective One was not an indication of failure nor poverty but an opportunity for Merseyside to build on the initiatives which were beginning to take shape . |
| 2 | The first meeting would concentrate on users ’ views , with an opportunity for CW to elaborate on the IT Review . |
| 3 | Therefore the model which recognises the regeneration of hydrocarbons to occur on the attainment of the previous maximum exposure temperature is a likely description of actual processes . |
| 4 | I said that I hope to breed the fish in this tank , but at the moment there does not appear to be any indication of willingness to breed on the part of any of the fish . |
| 5 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 6 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 7 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 8 | At the same time , the early Church had no compunction about modifying its own tenets and dogma in order to capitalise on the opportunity afforded it . |
| 9 | Finally it will provide an indication of the incidence of special classes in HE to bring candidates up to an adequate level of attainment to cope on the mainstream course . |
| 10 | He fussed about what kind of headphones to use on the aircraft , approved uniforms and checked menus . |
| 11 | In short , it seems inevitable that most PC software will need some kind of re-write to run on the Portfolio , and some of it will never fit at all . |
| 12 | The new Committee agreed to ask the University of Birmingham to comment on the application , visits were made to the College , and discussion of the proposals and their implications continued . |
| 13 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 14 | Literature classes with older people can be rewarding ; they bring a longer experience of life to bear on the subject , and often a wide range of reading . |
| 15 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 16 | Programs can involve much more elaborate calculations than the teacher , let alone the pupils , can possibly undertake in the class ; equally the management of information to appear on the screen is essentially sophisticated . |
| 17 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 18 | The loss of profit because they had been compelled to sell their home in order to complete on the purchase and the cost of borrowing and er the ancillary matters that are set out in the claim and dealt with by the accountant . |
| 19 | Mr Warren was n't at his home in Tackley to comment on the report . |
| 20 | The political implications of Sukenick 's experimentation can be seen clearly in his second novel Out ( 1973 ) , which sets up a journey as structural metaphor in order to comment on the political temper of the late Nixon years . |
| 21 | The illusion of an automatic tabula rasa also undermines the need for society to reflect on the consciousness that evolved under the conditions of the past 40 years . |
| 22 | Erm to be discussed at a future meeting for Steve to speak on the subject . |
| 23 | In France there is 40% inheritance tax for children to pay on the estates of their parents . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're developing a spreadsheet product that will allow a group of people to interact on the same spreadsheet , so people can contribute different ideas , assumptions and scenarios to a common spreadsheet . |
| 25 | Registered foreign lawyers are required to pay a fee ( £280 for 1991/92 ) on first registration and an annual fee of an amount equal to two thirds of the current practising certificate fee in order to remain on the register . |
| 26 | She had already tried , without success , to press Franz-Joseph and the King of Italy to intervene on the side of France by at least bringing diplomatic pressure to bear on Berlin . |
| 27 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 28 | In Northern Ireland , in order to prevent hordes crossing the border in order to reside on the qualifying date , three month 's prior residence in the constituency is required ( 1983 Act , s.1(2) ) . |
| 29 | Back in nineteen eighty eight the government faced a massive crash cash crisis in N H S funding , and er many people within the trade union movement took part in a massive rally in London to call on the government to review its policy towards the , the Health Service . |
| 30 | Blues manager Ian Porterfield was at Dean Court on Tuesday to spy on the £500,000-rated keeper in action against Brighton . |