Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 2 | Sacked for swearing on the helpline |
| 3 | Earlier , two Labour MPs , Brian Sedgemore and Tony Banks , were escorted from the hotel by police in an attempt to prevent them presenting a petition on behalf of 23 Pergamon Press workers sacked for going on strike . |
| 4 | Judgments were given by each of the five members of the court but I hope I will be forgiven for concentrating on that of Dixon J. The depth of the research and the penetrating nature of his analysis of the relevant equitable principles are , I think , sufficient justification . |
| 5 | As a respondent in my study commented about economising on the heating : ‘ I turn it off when I 'm in on my own and put a blanket on myself . |
| 6 | Looking back on his varied career , Haslam is somewhat guarded about passing on any pet theories on how to manage at the top . |
| 7 | In Canada , LASMO 's shares are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange under the trading symbol LSO . |
| 8 | More than 100 porters who help carry the luggage of VIP passengers at Heathrow airport were sacked after going on strike demanding the right to be represented by a union . |
| 9 | It needs to be remembered that the format is not primarily designed for printing on paper ; this is just a handy feature . |
| 10 | A clear and detailed historical account of this event is given by Ammianus Marcellinus , who has always been accepted as one of the more reliable of the ancient historians , although it has been recently pointed out by Professor Malcolm Todd that Theodosius I was the patron of Marcellinus , who can hardly be blamed for enlarging on the achievements of the father of the Emperor . |
| 11 | Businessmen and politicians ( often the same people ) are blamed for overspending on prestige projects — including the president 's $250 million basilica — and for luxurious living . |
| 12 | Stagg , fined for flashing on Wimbledon Common the day Rachel died , is on police bail pending further inquiries . |
| 13 | Third , the argument from error can not be attacked for relying on PC k . |
| 14 | A good entry expected with pegging on a new stretch of the River Shannon and Lough Bran . |
| 15 | Pride is occupied with sitting on your laurels and telling others about it . |
| 16 | Most of them do feel that they have succeeded in bringing on board the majority of people in a country such as this to support their claims . |
| 17 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 18 | 16 March 1928 : ‘ Probably no department of motoring is so useful to the community as racing , ’ said Sir William Joynson-Hicks , the Home Secretary and chief custodian of the 20mph speed limit , on the occasion of the luncheon for Captain Malcolm Campbell on his return from America , where he travelled faster than any man has succeeded in doing on land . |
| 19 | The strategies behind the claims were procedural : Egypt wanted United Nations Charter , Article 27 ( 3 ) to be applied , to prevent those States that had protested from voting on the matter before the Security Council , while the United Kingdom wished to preserve the bilateral nature of the dispute and its own procedural rights . |
| 20 | In the current discussions about the size of the nuclear arsenal , is the Secretary of State still committed to bringing on stream another replacement for the WE177 free-fall bomb ? |
| 21 | Though most report makers were not initially committed to reporting on an annual basis , nearly two thirds now feel that an annual report is appropriate . |
| 22 | Labour councils tended to spend relatively more and be more committed to spending on social services than Conservative councils which spent a higher proportion of their budgets on education , but the bulk of spending was similar and handled through nationally organized professionals rather than locally based politicians . |
| 23 | It is likely that we will have to add £200 million to the billions of pounds we are already committed to spending on a genocidal weapon , which even from a purely military point of view is regarded as redundant . |
| 24 | It was then that with Nicky Fairbairn , Meehan 's solicitors ( including the latest , David Burnside ) and an MP Frank McElhone , I formed the Patrick Meehan Committee , committed to campaigning on his behalf until justice was done . |
| 25 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 26 | If the restraint is confined to acting on behalf of people who were clients of your firm during the subsistence of the employment , it may be valid . |
| 27 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 28 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 29 | At home , on both wings of her Cabinet , are ministers who regard green politics as no more than the latest fad ; the election will not be won by fighting on the beaches , in the air , and in the green belts , but once again in the pockets of the people , is their view . |
| 30 | The analysis can be simplified by concentrating on the d.c. and fundamental components of voltage and current . |