Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By agreeing to talks with the North , the Americans won China 's abstention when the UN Security Council passed a resolution this month calling on the North to stay in the NPT . |
| 2 | The bill did not include a method for funding the changes , leading Bush to suggest that it would " inevitably lead to a raid on the Treasury to pay for the elaborate scheme of public subsidies " . |
| 3 | Drop the nozzle back on the surface to break off the icing and pull away neatly . |
| 4 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
| 5 | Overbeck 's critique connected directly with the recent rediscovery of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament in the work of Weiss and Schweitzer ; and these were powerfully reinforced in their effect upon Barth by the preaching of J. C. Blumhardt ( 1827 — 91 ) , which had centred on the call to live in the light of the future coming of the kingdom , in which the victory won by God in the death and resurrection of Jesus would at last become apparent . |
| 6 | I could not see what had happened , as I was standing on the settee to reach into the tank ( on a bookcase ) and the Meth blue was n't helping either . |
| 7 | Again , to counter the allegation by the LCD of excessive claims QC put forward a proposal that Paragraph 9 of the Regulations should be altered , so as to place an obligation on the Court to report to the Bar Council any case where fees are reduced by more than 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Then she flopped on the sofa to sort through the letters . |
| 9 | For a few seconds , as she leaned both hands on the desk to gaze at the unfamiliar surroundings , a feeling of panic hit her . |
| 10 | We will treat active and passive as truth-conditionally equivalent and used on the whole to refer to the same state of affairs ’ ( Weiner and Labov 1983 : 32 ) . |
| 11 | I made mistakes and sweated over them , but tried on the whole to err on the side of caution . |
| 12 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 13 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |
| 14 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 15 | To make commercial sense of this arrangement , the contract would also need to contain a provision placing a duty on the seller to account to the buyer for any amount by which the proceeds of sub-sales of unmixed goods exceed the amount of the buyer 's indebtedness to the seller . |
| 16 | In the Court of Appeal Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. , at p. 282 , held that there might be express or implied limitations on the right to devolve in the statute , and that otherwise a decision to devolve could be attacked if it was irrational in administrative terms . |
| 17 | The document also carries an article by the theologian Hugo Assmann on the ‘ electronic church ’ in Latin America , and an essay on the right to communicate by the Panamanian journalist Gerardo Sotelo . |
| 18 | There has to be a degradation of the colour on the canvas to correspond to the distance of the sea in the scene depicted . |
| 19 | On May 3 , Dai Qing and a number of Chinese intellectuals , marking the 70th anniversary of the May 4 Movement , called on the Party to continue with the liberal reforms and supported the demands of the students . |
| 20 | He had taken specimens of blood and throat swabs , and these waited on the cupboard to go to the laboratory . |
| 21 | The partnership agreement may deal with where the band 's joint bank account is held and how many signatures are required on the account to deal with the band 's finances . |
| 22 | The clause was not framed as an obligation on the vendor to negotiate with the purchaser in good faith . |
| 23 | Omagh goalkeeper Declan Devine allowed his harmless looking cross from wide on the left to drift into the net . |
| 24 | Of course , this involves a departure from the general subjective principle of criminal liability , since it involves imposing a duty on the defendant to ask about the victim 's consent before continuing with his conduct . |
| 25 | John and Claire are charming and welcoming hosts ( although John is really too busy on the farm to help with the day-to-day running of the house ) . |
| 26 | As you knit , the needles that are selected to tuck move forward of the needlebed far enough to collect the yarn , but not far enough for the stitch on the needle to go behind the latch and knit off . |
| 27 | ‘ It looks huge , ’ marvelled Clare , revolving slowly on the spot to take in the empty landscape . |
| 28 | Some contained far too much textual information ; some were read out ( there 's no need for this — the audience can read too ) ; and some speakers turned their backs on the audience to read from the screen . |
| 29 | The speaker presented a useful outline on screen initially , but far too frequently turned his back on the audience to read from the screen . |
| 30 | She dropped a one-pound coin on the table to pay for the smashed saucer . |