Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
| 2 | But Dawn , you should have carried on that course man . |
| 3 | It was not outsiders who began and brutally carried on this war . |
| 4 | The alarm in Leeming 's face was obvious ; the confusion that followed brought on another bout of coughing . |
| 5 | The barked refusal brought on another bout of painful , quickly stifled coughing . |
| 6 | It is likely that a test case will be brought on this issue . |
| 7 | What , you may ask , has brought on this fit of choler on my part ? |
| 8 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 9 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 10 | Mr. Beloff accepts that there remain issues between Lautro and Winchester and he further accepts that there may be room for argument as to whether the material now available would , if it had been produced before 30 October , have made a difference to the decision taken on that day . |
| 11 | b ) prevent any business ( whether on the Bill or not ) from being proceeded with on any day after the completion of all such proceedings on the Bill as are to be taken on that day . |
| 12 | ( 1 ) In this Order — ’ allotted day ’ means any day ( other than a Friday ) on which the Bill is put down as first Government Order of the day , provided that a Motion for allotting time to the proceedings on the Bill to be taken on that day either has been agreed on a previous day , or is set down for consideration on that day ; ’ the Bill ’ means the Local Government Finance Bill . |
| 13 | ( No vote was taken on that point ) . |
| 14 | Martin Hardwidge , the General Secretary , left in April and Stuart Waddington has taken on that role . |
| 15 | record the decision taken on each change , ie. approved or rejected , on the Changes Log |
| 16 | ( 3 ) If you are wise , you will have written the minutes of the previous meeting in such a way that the action to be taken on each item is recorded against it . |
| 17 | Visa records do not yet appear to have long-term reusable value , whereas 20th Century-Fox 's Movietone film has taken on such value . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Counsel advice has been taken on this issue and it is concluded that debt restructuring is permitted by virtue of paragraph 1(1) ( c ) of Schedule 3 to the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1975 . |
| 20 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 21 | The photographs taken on this occasion , by the Church of Scotland Publicity Department , can be seen on The Undercroft board . |
| 22 | No one seems to have asked whether the Staff College could have taken on this job , but then again such anti-intellectualism is apparent even in the Bramshill Scholars ' Association . |
| 23 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
| 24 | That 's why I have taken on this job ( and for my sins ! ) . |
| 25 | One aspect of the changing nature of local government since the early 1970s seems to be that various local government agencies have taken on this role in one way or another , to the extent that there seems to have been a marked change in relations between those agencies and business interests at local level . |
| 26 | Partly for this reason , no decision has yet been taken on this matter but it may well feature quite soon on the agenda of the Welsh Advisory Body . |
| 27 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |
| 28 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 29 | Individual firms have taken on more security staff , but as yet there is little co-operation among companies on improving security outside their buildings , which is where bombs are most likely to be . |
| 30 | Helping governors and parents to see how well a school is doing and explaining or defending the school has now taken on another dimension : comparisons with other schools leads to one set of questions while the extent to which the school is organized in accordance with the national curriculum and within the national framework of pupil assessment leads to different , inward-looking enquiries . |