Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However in line with KPMG publicised policies on corporate finance services activities , MAS partners ( along with other partners ) should not commit either themselves or the firm to sponsor issues . |
| 2 | Judge rules on passive smoking / White House snubs green plan / Science cuts … and debates / First step to a climate treaty / Patent error / Drought hits California 's framers / AIDS and apartheid in South Africa / In Brief |
| 3 | It was to see houses on expensive sites rise constantly higher , the consequent birth of the ‘ lift ’ or ‘ elevator ’ , and in the 1880s the construction of the first ‘ skyscrapers ’ in the United States . |
| 4 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 5 | Station and telephone enquiry bureaux can answer queries on individual services . |
| 6 | West plays Clubs on all of these tricks . |
| 7 | The European Options Exchange ( EOE ) in Amsterdam offers contracts on 20 listed Dutch companies as well as the EOE index , gold and the US guilder exchange rate ( Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 8 | Britain had its supporters outside the Six , notably the Nordic states with which it held regular meetings within Uniscan to discuss and coordinate views on European developments and their possible implications . |
| 9 | Make notes on those areas where you feel you need guidance and help , and resolve to seek out that help as soon as possible . |
| 10 | Several doctors , professors and scientists came together in London in November 1987 to compare notes on current research . |
| 11 | The ASB will , before long , be producing proposals on some of the most difficult subjects that it will ever have to face . |
| 12 | ‘ Like a mad young Alf Garnett , ’ it is said , ‘ he gives his thoughts and offers solutions on various subjects like the government , the situation , the environment , the police , the pol tax , art , society . ’ |
| 13 | It is possible to arrange retirements on spurious ‘ medical ’ grounds , but this practice was heavily criticised by the Commons Home Affairs select committee earlier this year . |
| 14 | Vietnam had on Nov. 4 repaid arrears on official Japanese loans extended prior to 1979 . |
| 15 | Sumner became the leading English exponent of the technique of sgraffito , a method of decorating walls by incising designs on coloured plaster ; he decorated eleven churches and several private houses in this way . |
| 16 | The controls are at waist level with simmer settings on all hotplate burners . |
| 17 | Each of the 26 subdivisions returned raw data , having completed questionnaires on 60–100 per cent of their leg ulcer patients : all nine EHA patches were therefore adequately represented . |
| 18 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 19 | Certainly they make demands on social and medical services , and it is possible that severely mentally handicapped people will have to be looked after for all their lives . |
| 20 | Claire now works from home , coming into the office once a week and seeing clients on two more days . |
| 21 | Divorce , prostitution and women 's emancipation were designated as outside the parameters of political discourse , and MPs customarily prefaced speeches on these topics by apologizing to the house for intruding on parliamentary time . |
| 22 | There were already a great number of the little red sold labels on many of their antique boxes , and other exhibits , which had been quickly snapped up when the Fair officially opened earlier . |
| 23 | If you are using a question sheet with space for percentage judgements on various topics make sure you have filled it in so that you can later compare candidates on all the headings . |
| 24 | Have you any reason to believe that either set of parents might make demands on either partner which would make ‘ leaving ’ difficult ? |
| 25 | Lagerfeld has temporarily switched off , leafing through a magazine and soliciting opinions on each advertisement , each editorial page , and being rude about them . |
| 26 | In a society such as ours , based on oral tradition , we must use our cultural expressions as a means of getting messages across and transform attitudes on basic issues . ’ |
| 27 | As a consequence , young Shetland married couples seem to presume that their best options are to await council housing or build houses on one spouse 's kinfolk 's land . |
| 28 | I 'm glad to report that Captain Alwyne Farquharson of Invercauld who has estates on Royal Deeside and on the island of Mull , has finally abandoned his opposition to a film crew building a temporary track on the island . |
| 29 | The ‘ pruning saw ’ normally sold for such work has teeth on two edges and , used in tight positions where it is invariably needed , great care and patience is essential to avoid the back edge causing damage to stems and growth that should not be harmed . |
| 30 | ‘ When the Arab revolt came in 1938 , the Arab leaders used to impose taxes on well-off people . |