Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , the auld plumbing is desperate for bringing on migraines . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph . |
| 4 | After taking on water and supplies , she returned to regular duties within 24 hours . |
| 5 | Could of carried on love |
| 6 | The that is the kind of knock on effect we experience . |
| 7 | The archetype of these harridans is the Glasgow clippie of c'm on gerraff fame . |
| 8 | And Mark Hateley , so named during his days in Italian football , believes Rangers are more than capable of taking on Europe 's best now they have reached the mini-league stage of the Champions Cup . |
| 9 | At another level , EC policies particularly in the areas of competition and technology seem set to favour further concentration and spatial centralisation of industry ( more likely to be in the most advanced regions ) in a bid to develop European champions capable of taking on US and Japanese competition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many reported the impossibility of securing employment because of lack of experience — with the jobless total so high employers are making a priority of taking on people with experience who do not require subsequent training . |
| 12 | Even the prospect of taking on Milan , for whom Hateley played between 1984 and 1987 , does not concern the 30-year-old former England striker , despite the Italian club 's billing as the clear favourites . |
| 13 | it 's quite important to be very specific about how you do this because it 's not just a matter of putting on clothes |
| 14 | She constantly restrained her eating for fear of putting on weight . |
| 15 | Even after the RICS rules on the methods of carrying on business are further relaxed , partnership may continue to be the normal form . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) Where the portfolio or account is not specifically established for the purpose of carrying on derivatives business , a statement , if relevant , that the firm may enter into transactions which may result in the customer having a short position . |
| 24 | Spotting an ideal target for a send-up , Dennis Spooner wrote his teleplay deliberately as a spoof of Carry On Cleo ( which , in turn , was a spoof on Quo Vadis ) , even down to persuading Verity Lambert and Director Christopher Barry to hire some of the cast of the film , for example Gertan Klauber . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Nobody thought that much of Carry on Sergeant . |
| 28 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |