Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the need for honesty , there is little point , and usually no advantage , in allowing discussions to continue on the basis of anger or mutual recrimination . |
| 2 | Doleys and Arnold ( 1975 ) treated an 8-year-old mentally handicapped boy by encouraging him to copy another child and by reinforcing attempts to sit on the lavatory for longer periods . |
| 3 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 4 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 5 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're after an excuse to go on the prowl round those fashion-shops again — is n't that the truth of it ? ’ |
| 7 | The indirect free-kick was positioned on the six-yard line with the referee physically forcing goalkeeper Tim Flowers and his fellow defenders to remain on the goal-line . |
| 8 | In the following year the duc de Richelieu , the French chief minister , sent an agent to Switzerland , Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to report on the press there and the possibility of France influencing it in her favour . |
| 9 | One of the events which shook her most of all was the occasion upon which her mother gave her permission to go on the school trip to Paris . |
| 10 | With respect to the reason for Molla Fenari 's going on the pilgrimage , he writes that an invasion of Edirne and its environs by the combined forces of Seyh Bedreddin and Duzme Mustafa led Molla Fenari to seek permission to go on the pilgrimage , though it is not clear whether Husameddin means that simply the fact of the invasion or that Molla Fenari 's supposed complicity with Seyh Bedreddin led him to decide to " remove himself from the scene : in any case both the circumstances and the chronology of events in the period are too uncertain to allow one to evaluate the argument properly . |
| 11 | According to Lord Wilson , the most recent premier to go on the record about the conventions of minute-taking , ‘ the writing of the Conclusions is the unique responsibility of the Secretary of the Cabinet … . |
| 12 | What had been happening was an assumption of power on the part of the Vietminh and the demonstration that a communist party could seize the opportunity to capitalize on the power of nationalism at a moment of unparalleled opportunity . |
| 13 | At all events , Mr. Nicholls was content in the present case to proceed on the basis of the law as stated in Reg. v. Galbraith , and on that basis he submitted that the magistrate was entitled , on the evidence before him , to conclude that there was such evidence before him as would justify the committal of the applicant , the question of the reliability of Price 's evidence being a matter for the Swedish court . |
| 14 | He felt that Lord Atkin had been attempting to explain what was meant by a judicial decision but unfortunately his words had encouraged subsequent courts to concentrate on the form rather than the essence of the decision . |
| 15 | The commission created a subcommission of members in Paris with Friedel as chairman to work on the document . |
| 16 | Multiprofessional teams bring a range of educational backgrounds , training and expertise to bear on the management of individual cases , which ensures that care is not dominated by one single professional approach . |
| 17 | There was no one available at the Association Headquarters to comment on the refusal . |
| 18 | The unwary movement caused her foot to slip on the footpath made muddy by the overnight rain . |
| 19 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 21 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the revision of this important planning guidance note . |
| 22 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the revision of this important planning guidance note . |
| 23 | It is hoped to submit a formal planning application in due course when a further public exhibition will be held showing the final layout of the road and the public will again have an opportunity to comment on the scheme at this time . |
| 24 | The focusing device of this chapter will be the role of metaphor in the novels as a strategy for bringing specialized discourses to bear on the consciousness of the fictional character and for ‘ mobilizing ’ the discourses themselves . |
| 25 | It is unrealistic in these times to work on the assumption that profit sharing ratios , once fixed , are sacrosanct only ever to be changed when the number of partners changes . |
| 26 | They were essentially concerned with bartering about a price , for which purpose Gary and Aggi had sufficient expertise to comment on the quality and value of the jewellery . |
| 27 | This demonstrated the importance of family factors in determining the occupational choice of rural school-leavers — nearly 42 per cent of the respondents stated that they had been influenced by their family in their decision to work on the land . |
| 28 | Sir Patrick apparently has no plans to comment on the election 's outcome until next week , when he meets the Republic 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Dick Spring , in Dublin to discuss future steps towards dialogue . |
| 29 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 30 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |