Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 2 | Were such a test to be adopted in future , it would reintroduce into British obscenity law a wholly subjective assessment of taste and decency with respect to works of art and public communications , and it would do so by amending an Act which was designed to focus solely on the question of harm . |
| 3 | The time has come to build further on the foundations of the achievements of the trustees and professional staffs , the public 's growing interest and the Government 's profound commitment to the future of these great institutions . |
| 4 | His eyes had come to rest less on the table and more on her . |
| 5 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 6 | The orbitals in these compounds can be considered to lie predominantly on the metal ( or metals in a polynuclear species ) or on the ligands , or to be involved in metal-ligand interactions and so be shared between metal and ligand . |
| 7 | It would not be expected to depend particularly on the frequency , the rate at which the waves rose and fell . |
| 8 | Also , because of the absence of any significant physical evidence , the case against Noriega was expected to rely heavily on the testimony of self-confessed drug criminals who had reached plea bargaining arrangements with the US authorities in return for giving evidence . |
| 9 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 10 | In that case , our malevolent might have decided to wait around on the off-chance that he would go to the kitchen or bathroom . |
| 11 | It was said to dine exclusively on the bodies of hen-pecked husbands . |
| 12 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 15 | Elite theorists have tended to concentrate not on the material interests but on a common ideology , whether broadly or narrowly defined . |
| 16 | In view of the problems involved with breaking up large firms and the difficulties likely to be encountered in trying to control their behaviour , competition policy in the UK has tended to concentrate more on the preservation of a competitive market structure . |
| 17 | By Aug. 27 the US Defence Department and the ICRC announced that they had agreed to work together on the airlift . |
| 18 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 19 | But when I enquired about the location of the Waaf Site , I was told to climb back on the wagon . |
| 20 | As the frequency of such twins , and the sex ratio , are thought to depend partly on the levels of female sex hormone , this has been taken as evidence for a general decline in Western fecundity ( James 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | You 've got to push down on the bike to get your seating right so when you 're on the throttle it 's all hooked up together . |
| 22 | Yeah , they 've been told to cut down on the spending . |
| 23 | The Crown did not object to the Divisional Court looking at the materials ( see p. 237G–H ) but the court itself refused to do so on the grounds that it would constitute a breach of article 9 . |
| 24 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 25 | Co-ordinated Land and Estates , which bought the Milngavie course from Stakis for an undisclosed sum last year , believe Dougalston , only minutes from Glasgow city centre and within easy reach of Glasgow Airport , is ideally placed to cash in on the golfing tourists . |
| 26 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 27 | I have been asked to comment particularly on the applicability of some of these to the publishing trade . |
| 28 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 29 | WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it . |
| 30 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |