Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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31 | Pick also announced its intentions to implement Advanced Pick directly onto Windows NT and OS/2 , and intends to complete on SQL , a Novell port , and hooks to graphical user interfaces over the next 12 to 18 months . |
32 | The historian compiling a critical edition of Burnett , for example , requires text critical apparatus and thus tends to rely on software tools and computational methods which are on the whole developed by and for literary scholars . |
33 | Clinton gets to work on government team |
34 | The band are slick and smooth , but not sickly ; the bongo player is so ‘ relaxed ’ he barely remembers to jump on stage and play . |
35 | Arjuna is the noble shadow-puppet hero who appears to walk on air . |
36 | This project aims to draw on court roll evidence to answer similar questions in Wales . |
37 | * Dulles said the thought the Shahs behaviour " in some instances seems to border on blackmail tactics " . |
38 | I give my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , South and Finsbury an undertaking that we are committed to a terminal at King 's Cross , but we are not necessarily committed to the expensive and grandiose project , which seems to depend on property values that were optimistic three or four years ago and are hopelessly pessimistic now . |
39 | Exactly the opposite seems to happen on television . |
40 | When a person purports to act on behalf of another , but without his authority , the latter may subsequently ratify the act of the former , and thereby draw to himself both the benefit of , and the liability for , the act . |
41 | However broad their shoulders , they can not support the pyramid that the Labour party wishes to build on top of them . |
42 | While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ . |
43 | Heating in a simple convection oven is all that remains to do on board ; and this system , coupled with a range of basically similar ( ‘ modular ’ ) trolleys formed the basis of ‘ Cuisine 2000 ’ begun experimentally between Euston and Manchester in August 1985 . |
44 | Election ‘ 92 : Ashdown seeks to put on pressure over PR |
45 | 4.1 The Distributor agrees to register on behalf of the Publisher in the Territory only the Trade Mark ‘ Oxford ’ or any other trade mark or trade name being used and owned by the Publisher and after termination ( for whatever reason ) of this contract the Distributor agrees to endorse the above-mentioned trade marks or trade names to the Publisher . |
46 | 4.1 The Distributor agrees to register on behalf of the Publisher in the Territory only the Trade Mark ‘ Oxford ’ or any other trade mark or trade name being used and owned by the Publisher and after termination ( for whatever reason ) of this contract the Distributor agrees to endorse the above-mentioned trade marks or trade names to the Publisher . |
47 | 4.1 The Distributor agrees to register on behalf of the Publisher in the Territory only the Trade Mark ‘ Oxford ’ or any other trade mark or trade name being used and owned by the Publisher and after termination ( for whatever reason ) of this contract the Distributor agrees to endorse the above-mentioned trade marks or trade names to the Publisher . |
48 | It will therefore be desirable to define the consequences of a failure to perform on time , for instance by stating that " time for performance is of the essence " , or by defining a term as a " condition " or by expressly providing that " if X fails to perform on time in accordance with this provision , Y shall be entitled to terminate this contract " . |
49 | PLO fails to agree on peace accord |
50 | New BT shares to go on sale |
51 | In smaller businesses , job reviews may only take place when the time comes to decide on salary increases and there might be little consultation with the majority of members of staff . |