Example sentences of "[adv prt] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 2 | We left Canjuers on the Monday morning and arrived later on that day at a small village , from where we would march back on foot to Orange . |
| 3 | It hangs on that sort of knife-edge . |
| 4 | This is because s. 81(2) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 states that a dismissal is by reason of redundancy if it is ‘ wholly or mainly attributable to … the fact that his ( i.e. the employee 's ) employer … has ceased or intends to cease , to carry on that business in the place where the employee was so employed … ’ . |
| 5 | Broadly speaking , although it is discussed in more detail below , a business is transferred as a going concern if the purchaser carries on that business in succession to the vendor as distinct from the purchaser selectively choosing specific assets of the vendor for use in the purchaser 's own business . |
| 6 | The European Court further ruled in this case that Arts 48 and 59 of the EC Treaty do not prevent a member state from requiring that the exercise of the profession of auditor in that state by a person qualified to carry on that profession in another member state be subject to conditions which are objectively necessary to guarantee observation of professional rules concerning the permanence of the infrastructure in place for the completion of the work , the effective presence in the member state and assurance of the observation of professional ethics , unless respect for such rules and conditions is already guaranteed by a reviseur d'entreprises , whether a natural person or a firm , established and recognised in the state , and in whose service is placed , for the duration of the work , the person who intends to exercise the profession of auditor . |
| 7 | Would he like to carry on that legacy in cinema ? |
| 8 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 9 | It may disintegrate on impact or , if it survives that , it may carry on some distance under water . |
| 10 | All six degrees of freedom are seen to take on some zone of possible position or angle . |
| 11 | If paragliders can at least get away with their sport when safely airborne , since they then take on some element of grace and beauty , the mountain biker will always look a clod . |
| 12 | For once the Lovejoy actor 's old-fashioned charm deserted him as he plucked up courage to pass on some advice on her marriage lines . |
| 13 | The first ( firm A ) is a levered firm and the second ( firm B ) is an unlevered firm which decides to take on some leverage by issuing a bond . |
| 14 | I am writing to you to pass on some information regarding Clown Loaches . |
| 15 | It provides that information may be withheld where a firm : " maintains an established arrangement which requires information obtained by the firm in the course of carrying on one part of its business of any kind to be withheld in certain circumstances from persons with whom it deals in the course of carrying on another part of its business of any kind . " |
| 16 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 17 | The alarm in Leeming 's face was obvious ; the confusion that followed brought on another bout of coughing . |
| 18 | The barked refusal brought on another bout of painful , quickly stifled coughing . |
| 19 | In these cases verse takes on another dimension of seriousness by its juxtaposition with the prose of jest and the evasion of responsibilities . |
| 20 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 21 | members of the Government ( including Law Officers and junior Ministers ) who felt unable , on grounds of conscience , to vote against the abolition of the death penalty should abstain from voting in the Divisions to be taken on this issue in the proceedings on the Criminal Justice Bill . |
| 22 | If we do n't get agreement we take on this lady from Oxford |
| 23 | I said , each person sitting in this room is entitled to their emotions and if you 're unhappy then you should do something about it , because you ca n't carry on this way with this tension , it 's not productive , it 's not fun … ‘ |
| 24 | Beside this , the very persistence of the term is itself worthy of interest and on academic , moral and political grounds any resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds the value of the concept of the inner city must surely start by taking on this vocabulary for what it is . |
| 25 | Erm first of all can I put the county on notice to er respond later on this afternoon to the thesis expanded by Professor Lock that er it might be tenable to start calculating employment land requirements based on numbers of employed or numbers in employment or desired ai or employment levels to be aimed at , er and coupled with that , is there anything in the figures which they have produced in either their submission or and and its appendices which actually might form a basis for that sort of calculation ? |
| 26 | I admired the way she took on this part of the world and conquered it . ’ |
| 27 | The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things . |
| 28 | Men were therefore the first people with private property and soon they wanted to pass on this property to their children . |
| 29 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |