Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We either hold or pass on letters for clients . |
| 2 | But it should be for work done each day or week — not a promise that hangs on results . |
| 3 | Fateha : Yes — you know puppets — the sort that hang on strings . |
| 4 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 5 | Birds can often be diseased on arrival and pass on infections to humans such as psittacosis , tuberculosis and hepatitis . |
| 6 | The state would continue to own land , but peasants could work their plots as their own businesses , employ labour , and pass on farms to their heirs , and members of co-operatives could set up private businesses . |
| 7 | Please ask in all local classes if members could offer anyone a bed for the Friday night , and pass on details to , . |
| 8 | This commitment has manifested itself in many ways , e.g. sending out people to speak at schools , inviting school groups to tour the centre , awarding business scholarships to sixth formers and taking on pupils for work experience . |
| 9 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 10 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 11 | As well as the $200 million consideration , Peabody will pay an adjustment — estimated at $34 million — for final net assets and take on borrowings of about $65 million . |
| 12 | The importance of the shift for the purposes of this book is that the growing competition among states-as-suitors means that government has shed some powers , but taken on others . |
| 13 | Thus in ( 140 ) below the lighting of a fire is presented as a condition which would have permitted Pops to be found sooner , but the fire could not be conceived as acting on Pops directly itself and " making him be found " : ( 140 ) A fire would n't have mattered except that it would cause Pops to be found sooner . |
| 14 | The vast majority of employers , he said , hardly took GCSE results into account when taking on youngsters , because they often recruited weeks before results came out . |
| 15 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |