Example sentences of "to comment on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one is liable to comment on a renegade E in the First Church . |
| 2 | Would the Minister care to comment on a recent report by Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte — a firm of consultants on which the Government normally rely — which states that industrial output is likely to decline by between 2 and 4 per cent . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to be to comment on a hypothetical situation . |
| 4 | Viscount Lewisham was thus being asked to comment on a distasteful message from the colonies about seven hours before he would receive it . |
| 5 | He declined to comment on a looming trade war between the US and the European Community , stressing that such problems had to be dealt with by Bush , who Clinton insists is the US 's only president for the next two and a half months . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented . |
| 7 | The President of United Motors — who was in London at that moment — had also declined to comment on a local issue which , he had said was a matter for local management . |
| 8 | Most respondents interpreted the question as an invitation to comment on the wider issues surrounding the nature and scope of the Compensation Fund , and these are discussed below . |
| 9 | Do you do you want to comment on the lowest figure ? |
| 10 | Perhaps the Ulster PR spokesman might care to comment on the following points . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 12 | I 'm not going to bother to comment on the individual allegations in the letter or cite examples on non-Welsh violence from the same period . |
| 13 | These were held in belated recognition that the entirely private exercise last time had given the public not even a token opportunity to comment on the various applicants . |
| 14 | I have been invited to comment on the enclosed document . |
| 15 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 16 | It is difficult to comment on the general effect of these developments as different industries and individual companies have been affected in different ways . |
| 17 | The pub owner said he was not prepared to comment on the loyalist group 's withdrawal of threats on pubs , such as his own , which host Irish folk music sessions . |
| 18 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 19 | He declined to comment on the 1973 Roe v. Wade judgment — the landmark case which had established the right of women to have abortions — on the grounds that , if his nomination was confirmed , he would be required to consider the matter and did not wish to prejudge it . |
| 20 | At his barracks in London 's Knightsbridge yesterday , the major refused to comment on the new allegations which are understood to have been made by a junior officer or private . |
| 21 | I am immediately drawn to comment on the technological superiority of the Northumbrian bagpipes over the Scottish bagpipes . |
| 22 | The purpose of these Guidelines is to take these general codes as a starting point and to comment on the practical implications of the responsibility owed by engineers in respect of risk issues , and to provide specific guidance to resolve risk concerns satisfactorily ( see also Guideline 3 , Resolving a Risk Concern , page 12 ) ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Mean Fiddler declined to comment on the legal battle and the theft . |
| 25 | We would n't want to comment on the comparative merits of your Minitex and Barbara Smith 's Erka which we show below but it is interesting that the Minitex cost £42.10s.0d in 1950 and the Erka 45 guineas in 1960 . |
| 26 | I AM writing to comment on the amazing article by Jonathan Rice on the Sky TV coverage of the World Cup ( WCM May ) . |
| 27 | While not wishing to comment on the economic arguments for communism in terms of its capacity to create more wealth more equally distributed , an aim Freud thought to be very important for the future , he thought that communism contained an ‘ illusion ’ about man 's nature . |
| 28 | * To comment on the recent debate I think you do a great job and I like the new look . |
| 29 | More recent reviewers of the biographical evidence about the latter have certainly continued to comment on the remarkable frequency with which serious mental disorder occurs among outstandingly creative people . |
| 30 | He gave Kiselev the chance to comment on the Secret Committee 's recent papers and expressed particular approval of Haxthausen 's opinion that the serfs had to be emancipated before their dissatisfaction expressed itself in revolt . |