Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Berg 's case was that the unqualified report by the auditors gave the company an opportunity to continue to carry on business and to borrow money from third parties .
2 In the past I 've always stayed here at Lomond View , and that 's precisely what I intend to carry on doing ! ’
3 Section 4(1) ( d ) of the Act of 1914 also contained various grounds of jurisdiction , including when the debtor , ‘ has carried on business in England , personally or by means of an agent or manager ’ within a year before the presentation of the petition .
4 Is there any reason why that should not apply equally to the words ‘ has carried on business ? ’
5 If the debtor resided in one district and carried on business in another , the petition must be presented in the latter ( r 6.9(3) ) and if he has carried on business in more than one district , the petition must be presented in the court for the district which was his principal place of business ( r 6.9(4) ) .
6 Neither the debtor himself nor a creditor can present a petition unless the debtor is domiciled in England and Wales ; is personally present in England and Wales on the day on which the petition is presented ; or at any time in the previous three years has been ordinarily resident , has had a place of residence , or has carried on business in England and Wales ( s 265(1) ) .
7 ‘ The taxpayer here has carried on marketing activities outside Hong Kong resulting in agreements for the sale or sub-licensing of intellectual property rights also exercisable only outside the colony .
8 Liverpool will probably want around £750,000 for the player who Tranmere tried to take on loan earlier this season .
9 Because of the difficulty in isolating C. trachomatis , the time it takes to do so , and the expense involved , there are very few laboratories prepared to take on routine chlamydia isolation .
10 Even a woman wanting to take on help with child-care may have to consider whether or not she will make the decision herself or whether her husband or even the child itself will become involved .
11 The company ceases to carry on business .
12 We 'll take it from here , I think I 'd like to carry on Chapter eleven .
13 the Distributor ceasing to carry on business for any reason whatsoever
14 The events of crystallisation , on which there is general agreement , are ( i ) the making of a winding up order , ( ii ) the appointment of an administrative receiver , ( iii ) the company 's ceasing to carry on business , ( iv ) the taking of possession by the debentureholder and ( v ) the happening of an event expressly provided for in the debenture , often referred to as ‘ automatic crystallisation . ’
15 A paddle stroke is like any other model or diagram which is used to pass on information .
16 Morley Street is one of 11 entries for the Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton on Thursday , but Balding is likely to avoid taking on Champion Hurdle favourite , Muse , there and send him straight to the Festival .
17 A few months after that , the ‘ Carry On ’ factory produced Carry On Cowboy from its assembly line , with Ken playing Judge Burke and the busty Joan Sims as Belle — ‘ My intimates call me Ding Dong ’ .
18 Men and women both tend to put on weight in middle-age , when exercise becomes less frequent .
19 In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership .
20 She began to put on weight at almost every feed .
21 Upholstery became a separate trade , and seating began to put on weight in consequence .
22 If she were truthful , she had never properly imagined Bella as anything , except perhaps a spiteful , over-painted tart , drenched in a cheap scent , who was beginning to put on weight and let herself go .
23 The film was going to be called Carry On Sergeant .
24 Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , the brains behind all 30 of the Carry On films , remember Carry On Camping as one of their funniest and most successful pictures .
25 If it had n't worked out , I would simply have carried on road riding . ’
26 Outgoing Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir was reported on June 27 to have said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv : " I would have carried on autonomy talks for 10 years and meanwhile we would have reached half a million souls in Judea and Samaria [ the West Bank ] …
27 GREEDY banks are to get a roasting from the Treasury for failing to pass on interest cuts fast enough to customers .
28 He 'd go mad if I started putting on weight .
29 And when I started putting on weight I and I 'm still putting on weight .
30 But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ?
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