Example sentences of "[vb infin] on that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ VAT at the full rate would act on that terrain like fiscal napalm . ’ |
| 2 | It is vital that the United Nations should now act on that groundwork and drive the peacemaking process forward . |
| 3 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 4 | But this part of the course that we 're specifically calling advocacy will concentrate on that part of the skill of advocacy , of the actual standing up and presenting information . |
| 5 | If I can , if you can just concentrate on that figure now |
| 6 | We ca n't compromise on that principle , we have to ask you to oppose motion one one O. |
| 7 | And in my view what they could n't achieve on that night in Parliament in the nineteen forties is now being achieved by stealth , slicing bits and pieces away as they go along . |
| 8 | Er , what I would prefer to do is to er listen to the amendment put forward by the as if that were an amendment to the adoption minute since there 's nothing to be adopted at the moment , erm I will then speak on that amendment , well I would probably speak against it erm at that point er there could be a vote on that amendment line by line . |
| 9 | The newspaper article from which this fragment was extracted did indeed appear on that date . |
| 10 | Smart Tar in his seasonal debut was sixth in the SGB and will improve on that performance . |
| 11 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for trying to answer the question , but can he improve on that answer and tell the House clearly whether a Labour Government would or would not have the fourth boat ? |
| 12 | ‘ You would n't know to look at me now , ’ she 'd say , ‘ but I could hold them spellbound , the things I could do on that bike in a crash helmet and a pair of tights and a stars and stripes swimsuit . ’ |
| 13 | What did she do on that course ? |
| 14 | You better make sure you do n't swear on that thing actually . |
| 15 | I know you did and nobody can work on here , and wo n't work on that bit |
| 16 | I did n't work on that side actually Rod . |
| 17 | But I wanted Black Francis to come in and work on that track . |
| 18 | I mean it could work on that basis then , that if , for example , I 'm just thinking about , well just from my point of view , when i was arranging that date in Stirling with the Oxford people , I could of said well , Thursday 's okay with me is it okay with you until I 've checked with |
| 19 | ‘ At Bath we can work on that sort of deficit . |
| 20 | Thank you , does touch on that issue and refers to the point that I made earlier that that the proposals having been referred to that policy and how it meets with er more work . |
| 21 | How long should you spend on that problem alone — and when do you turn to fellow students to share ideas on possible solutions ? |
| 22 | ‘ But it was more wrong that the chairman and vice-chairman ( Lord Barnett ) , representing the wider public interest , did not insist on that change in contractual arrangements , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ But it was more wrong that the chairman and vice-chairman , Lord Barnett , representing the wider public interest , did not insist on that change in contractual arrangements , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 25 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 26 | Are you gon na tender on that orange ? |
| 27 | I said smiling , ‘ If you always look as fabulous as you did on Thursday when you visit him I would n't bet on that reaction . |
| 28 | I shall in considering the work of Schüssler Fiorenza look in particular at the essay ‘ Toward a Critical Theological Self-Understanding of Biblical Scholarship ’ , in her collected essays Bread Not Stone , as this represents a somewhat later and more refined perspective than her earlier book In Memory of Her , though I shall also draw on that work . |
| 29 | do n't draw on that table too much , you 'll mark the table |
| 30 | Our primary concern here however is with the implications of the existence of for the comparative static results with respect to the change in taxation ( ) The position is parallel with that in Section 6–4 , where the existence of other taxes was seen to affect the response to , and we can draw on that analysis . |