Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been , for the time being at least , compelling reasons for embarking on the Foxton development . |
| 2 | And interrogatories may be administered to determine on which of certain prescribed grounds the directors have acted , but not as to their reasons for rejecting on these grounds , and not if the articles provide , as they often do , that they shall not be bound to state their reasons . |
| 3 | Since then financial markets concluded they have three good reasons for betting on a devaluation of the pound against the DM . |
| 4 | Scott also suggested that in addition to carrying out some exercise or activity focused around one of the essential concepts , pupils should be given the opportunity for reflecting on the thinking processes they have gone through . |
| 5 | Indeed , the 1973 white paper , Widening the Choice : The Next Steps in Housing , after noting that ‘ the prospect of heavy expenditure on ancillary services often makes local authorities reluctant to give planning permission for housing on land which is otherwise ripe for development ’ , proposed an extension of planning agreements and a compulsory infrastructure charge . |
| 6 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 7 | I sometimes believe that there is also a powerful case for referring on occasions to Hansard as an aid to construction , at any rate in case of a clear ministerial statement of intent . |
| 8 | Both Mr Boskin 's recent annual economic report and the NES cogently make the case for relying on market forces in energy policy , with the government intervening only when prices are sending obviously wrong signals — usually because they do not reflect such externalities as environmental effects . |
| 9 | He rejected calls by opposition politicians and the press for him to step down , and insisted that state and local elections scheduled for Dec. 6 would go ahead as planned , without a provision for voting on a reduction of his presidential term . |
| 10 | I do n't have to stress the danger of anyone moving about on a railway track ; ignorance is no excuse for trespassing on railway property and the warning notices are always abundant , which is the reason that the two men were so concerned , firstly for the person 's safety and secondly for the risk of a collision with a train and the undoubted injuries that would result . |
| 11 | I think she feels a certain resentment that he used his wife 's illness , her death , and now uses the children as an excuse for reneging on his undertaking to leave when she wanted the cottage back . ’ |
| 12 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 13 | Whilst teachers seemed to be fairly happy to comment on provision for equal opportunities , some heads of department had misgivings about commenting on provision for multicultural education . |
| 14 | He did this on the advice of his father , who shared his misgivings about travelling on a passport in that name . |
| 15 | Staff , recruited specially for the day , gathered petitions to gauge customer support for trading on Sunday . |
| 16 | In Norway and Denmark electoral support for anti-tax parties has declined , while opinion surveys in the United States and Britain show that tax-cutting has become a minority cause , compared to support for spending on social programmes . |
| 17 | Thus , the returns during trading on each market are likely to lead the closed market returns for the other markets , and this is what Becker , Finnerty and Tucker found , except that the Nikkei Stock Average did not lead the FT-SE 100 . |
| 18 | The amount of money worth spending on tools for plumbing really depends on how much work you intend to do . |
| 19 | It also draws attention to the setting-up in Scotland , after the vote on devolution , of the Tertiary Education Council with the responsibility for advising on the whole of the further education sector there , and notes that no comparable body is able to do a similar service for Wales . |
| 20 | We all know Stirling 's weakness for laying on his plans by the queerest methods . |
| 21 | It is a matter of great concern that employees should receive proper rewards for working on Sundays . |
| 22 | I can never get the technique for pulling on ropes quite right . |
| 23 | Jack The Lad , of course was right in the shit for smoking on school premises . |
| 24 | For example , a white mother with two children in my study described her strategies for budgeting on benefit in great detail , ending her account by noting how these strategies floundered : ‘ Because he spends his money and we could do with it . |
| 25 | The landowner is concerned over liability for climbing on the crag , details of which are to be found in the new BMC Peak Guide supplement , and a discreet and sensitive approach is requested until the problems have been sorted out . |
| 26 | Music Week reports that session men are receiving a miserly £30 or £40 for performing on demo records and about £500 a week for going on tour , though the figure rises sharply on big stadium tours . |
| 27 | They would continue to open on Mondays , Fridays and Saturdays but discussions about opening on another day probably Thursday had started . |
| 28 | The Earl of Cranbrook , the British conservationist who in 1989 led a mission to study the logging of tropical hardwoods in Sarawak , Malaysia , has criticized the Sarawak authorities for reneging on their pledge to cut production . |
| 29 | Another patient developed loose teeth after going on the pill . |
| 30 | A baby girl died in Norfolk after choking on a penny . |