Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] on [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 2 | Joseph Anthony Villa , boss of the company since 1966 , admitted 13 charges of carrying on a food business in unclean premises . |
| 3 | Courageous in taking on the over-spending bogey that did such havoc in 1987 , it nevertheless opened the floodgates to a fortnight of ‘ we can give away more tax than you ’ , and exchanges between the two parties of a staggering triviality that effectively supplanted any wider debate about the economy . |
| 4 | Section 3 prohibits any person from carrying on an investment business unless he is an ‘ authorised person ’ under Chapter III or an ‘ exempted person ’ under Chapter IV of Part I of the Act . |
| 5 | A group of Country Whigs certainly remained important " out-of-doors " , in carrying on the propaganda war against the Court . |
| 6 | ‘ an appointed representative whose principal … is a member of such an organisation … and is subject to the rules of such an organisation … in carrying on the investment business in respect of which his principal … has accepted responsibility for his activities ; … |
| 7 | ‘ an appointed representative whose principal … is a member of ( a recognised self-regulating organisation ) and is subject to the rules of such an organisation … in carrying on the investment business in respect of which his principal or each of his principals has accepted responsibility for his activities ; … |
| 8 | He had agreed to taking on a reading tour in Scotland . |
| 9 | Taylor is obviously full of anticipation as he embarks on the most important year since taking on the England job . |