Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-cut panels of mirrors sold for hanging on wardrobe or cupboard doors are often surprisingly cheap compared to custom-cut pieces and they can be hung side by side or used in certain places to look like slit windows in a wall . |
| 2 | For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph . |
| 3 | After taking on water and supplies , she returned to regular duties within 24 hours . |
| 4 | Could of carried on love |
| 5 | The that is the kind of knock on effect we experience . |
| 6 | The archetype of these harridans is the Glasgow clippie of c'm on gerraff fame . |
| 7 | Young batsmen Mark Lathwell and Mark Ramprakash could get a game tomorrow with Somerset 's exciting 21-year old Lathwell capable of taking on Aussie spearhead Craig McDermott in a manner so far beyond Gooch and Alec Stewart . |
| 8 | She constantly restrained her eating for fear of putting on weight . |
| 9 | Even after the RICS rules on the methods of carrying on business are further relaxed , partnership may continue to be the normal form . |
| 10 | Statements may be made with regard to their mode of carrying on business , such as to lead people of ordinary sense to the opinion that they conduct their business badly and inefficiently . |
| 11 | Private customers are typically individuals and small companies who are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; non-private customers are , typically , " ordinary business investors " but also include expert private customers who agree to be treated as non-private customers . |
| 12 | Unless they agree to be treated as experts ( see page 37 below ) , individuals will always be private customers if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business . |
| 13 | The typical individual who is not a private customer because he is carrying on investment business is a " local " on a futures exchange ; ( 2 ) Small business investors , if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business . |
| 14 | The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) . |
| 15 | The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) . |
| 16 | These Regulations , which are now in force , allow partnerships of unlimited size if they are formed for the purpose of carrying on practice as consulting engineers , provided a majority of the partners are recognised by the Engineering Council as chartered engineers . |
| 17 | Or as Marshall P. Knutt , the conscientious sanitary engineer who gets mistaken for a hot-shot and ends up the hero of Carry On Cowboy . |
| 18 | The success of Carry On Nurse in America did n't alter the fact that the fans were mostly in Britain and the Commonwealth , but the mail poured in from places as far apart as Kenya and Hong Kong . |
| 19 | Nobody thought that much of Carry on Sergeant . |
| 20 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |
| 21 | The success of Carry on Sergeant did dictate that there would be another ‘ Carry On ’ as soon as the finance and the equipment and the cast could be assembled . |
| 22 | Crime — Fraud — Fraudulent trading — Investigation by Serious Fraud Office — Applicant charged with carrying on business of company with intent to defraud creditors — Whether power of Director to compel answers to questions ceasing once applicant charged — Criminal Justice Act 1987 ( c. 38 ) , s. 2 ( as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1988 ( c. 33 ) , ss. 143 , 170(1) , Sch . |
| 23 | The writers , Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell ( who took over from Hudis with Carry on Cabby ) wrote for Ken and knew exactly which part would be his . |
| 24 | NOW THAT the Carry On series has them rolling in the aisles once more with Carry On Imperialism , NME takes a look at whatever happened to the original team . |
| 25 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 26 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 27 | The first perspective , Theory X , assumes that ( a ) the average person is lazy and does not care to work ; ( b ) most people must be coerced , directed and controlled if the organisation is to benefit by employing them ; ( c ) the average person lacks ambition and has no interest in taking on responsibility . |
| 28 | In the case of solicitors , as well as the usual provisions common to most businesses , specific restrictions may , for example , be desired : ( 1 ) in relation to the operation of bank accounts ( more particularly drawings and transfers from client and trust accounts ) ; ( 2 ) to prohibit a partner from carrying on investment business at any time when the firm has not applied for and obtained an Investment Business certificate from the Law Society ; and ( 3 ) in relation to professional undertakings made in the name of the firm , perhaps by requiring the consent of another partner ( if not all partners ) or notice to the other partners . |
| 29 | There was one scene in Carry on Constable when virtually the whole male cast — Ken , Leslie Phillips , Kenneth Connor included — had to show their behinds and to have make-up applied . |
| 30 | Yet in Carry On Cowboy and , later on Carry On Henry , Joan Sims 's cleavage was imposing indeed . |