Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court may grant leave on the written request alone or direct that a date be fixed for hearing in which case notice must be given to the applicant and other persons as directed by the court ( FPCR , r3(2) ; FPR , r4.3(2) ) . |
| 2 | He submitted that the court had no jurisdiction to hear the matter because the terms of section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 empower a justice of the peace to remand a person in custody only if the justice is of the opinion that , inter alia , he has broken a condition of his bail ; otherwise , if not of that opinion , the court must grant bail on the same conditions as were originally imposed . |
| 3 | It should focus attention on the key results areas of the project and on the contributions of individuals towards achieving them . |
| 4 | The manager should monitor progress on the incoming enquiries . |
| 5 | The cases should provide evidence on the conservative course of a court heavily influenced by appointments made during the Reagan years . |
| 6 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 7 | For this pattern the crossover should take place on the same line , not alternating as the previous example . |
| 8 | If a painter decorates his own house , nobody would argue that he should pay tax on the non-existent earnings ; but what if he decorates a friend 's house in return for some help with fixing his car ? |
| 9 | These refugees have been moved away from the border to facilitate military operations and now must endure life on the barren and wind-swept interior plateau . |
| 10 | When knitting in stripes you must change colour on the correct rows of the card if you are following a written pattern . |
| 11 | Below that the car risked bogging down in the mud or grounding on an obstacle , above it the tyres might lose adhesion on the continual twists and turns or cliff-like descents , or one of the vicious pot-holes or rock outcrops rupture the suspension or pierce the sump . |
| 12 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 13 | A presidential candidate could win election on the first round only by gaining an absolute majority of the votes cast by at least one-quarter of registered voters ; otherwise the election would be decided by a second-round run-off between the two candidates with most votes . |
| 14 | If it ‘ saw ’ a way to take a queen it would do so , even if the opponent could give mate on the next play . |
| 15 | He could see Donna on the other side of the barrier heading towards a dark-haired woman , whom she embraced . |
| 16 | Still peering through the binoculars he could see movement on the other boat : two men looking ahead , one of them pointing towards The Abbott . |
| 17 | This competent body could provide guidance on the preferable format(s) for the presentation of information . |
| 18 | The railways must be kept together say on the on the Peyton amendment and they could raise money on the private market . |
| 19 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 20 | Recent studies on extensional flow suggest that measurement of the viscosity in such flows may contain information on the molecular weight distribution not easily obtained by other means . |
| 21 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 22 | We shall concentrate attention on the long-gilt contract . |
| 23 | In language which sounded convincingly like a social democrat 's , he indicated that Labour would concentrate investment on the new commanding heights of the modern economy — education and training — and on technical research and the transport system . |
| 24 | The delegates , who discussed ways of strengthening the enforcement of the UN 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea , urged closer co-operation to establish regional organizations which would regulate fishing on the high seas and settle disputes . |
| 25 | Lloyd George would propose fusion to his Liberal supporters , and Bonar Law would follow suit on the next day . |
| 26 | If you would like advice on the correct way to pack and protect the items you send , again ask your Customer Care Unit for advice . |
| 27 | If you would like advice on the correct way to pack and protect the items you post , read the leaflet Wrap up Well or ask your Customer Care Unit . |
| 28 | If anyone would like information on the National Club League , then please call . |
| 29 | He referred to only one of the Opposition 's policies that would wreak havoc on the British economy . |
| 30 | Under the agreement ( i ) NASA would pay US$10,000,000 to the Russian aerospace organization NPO Energia for detailed technical studies of Russian hardware , particularly the Soyuz-TM spacecraft , for possible use as an " emergency " lifeboat for the planned US Freedom space station ; ( ii ) NPO Energia would provide information on the automated docking system used with the orbiting Russian Mir space station , the Progress cargo transport spacecraft for possible use with Freedom , and Mir 's potential to perform long-term life science experiments . |