Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is excellent news for Reds manager Frankie Parks who is increasingly worried he wo n't have men fit enough to write their names on the team sheet . |
| 2 | He seemed , indeed , to have become much more decisive altogether , for at exactly the same time as he signed the rescript , he created a new governmental body under his own chairmanship , the Council of Ministers , whose purpose was apparently to strengthen his grip on the central administration . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I urge all those who are in a position to do so to use their influence on the men of violence from both sides of the community to end their murderous activities , and to create the only basis on which an enduring peace can be established . ’ |
| 4 | The reader might be well advised to read over Chapter 2 on the LDCs just to refresh his memory on the economic and social problems confronting these nations . |
| 5 | Young Group , the open cast coal miner that is soon to lose its quote on the unlisted securities market , was a peculiar market . |
| 6 | The wind whipped at him , making it hard to hover and harder still to drop his talons on the moving branches on which he was trying to land . |
| 7 | Women have' in their distress , been known repeatedly to bang their heads on the walls and floor to cut and injure themselves . |
| 8 | She bent a little to lean her fists on the window seat , with her back to him . |
| 9 | v. Warwickshire County Council , ex parte Johnson , the Appellate Committee again admitted parliamentary material either as an aid to construing section 20 of the Consumer protection Act 1987 , or alternatively to confirm its judgment on the construction . |
| 10 | Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register . |
| 11 | It seems inappropriate even to mention your feelings on the subject to your children . |
| 12 | The financing of the UKCC comes from individual nurses themselves who pay a fee of £30 tri-annually to maintain their names on the register . |
| 13 | In Paris , an engineering specialist in deep tunnelling in heavy rock strata , home on leave , made up his mind there and then to turn his back on the remaining two and a half years of his contract . |
| 14 | It is likely to be up to 10 years before the banks would be able either to sell their stake on the local stock market or to pass on their holdings to other investors . |
| 15 | They then drew alongside him and told him again to put his hands on the handlebars . |
| 16 | Let's try it again to put our trust on the line , now . |
| 17 | When you 're reading a speech ordinarily you have either to keep your finger on the spot or find it again . |
| 18 | CHEFS travelled in convoy recently to sacrifice their headgear on the stones of Tiananmen Square ( left ) . |
| 19 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |
| 20 | Preston began seriously to question his information on the non-violent nature of the beast . |