Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to go ahead on the lines which have brought prosperity at home ? |
| 2 | And he said : ‘ Do you want to go forward on a charge on that ? ’ |
| 3 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 4 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 5 | During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " . |
| 6 | He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again . |
| 7 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 8 | Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town . |
| 9 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 10 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 11 | However , there are many in Britain who feel that the US approach , which has relied heavily on the CD4 measure in licensing other potential anti-AIDS drugs , is wrong , and that the decision to put a patient on AZT should be more broadly based , using a number of factors — including the best current estimate of likely long-term risks and benefits — rather than a simple formula . |
| 12 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 13 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 14 | I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion . |
| 15 | I want to comment briefly on the Government 's proposals and to support wholeheartedly the new clauses and amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) . |
| 16 | But Romania 's official press has reported extensively on the ethnic unrest across the border , while , for example , failing to report on the radical reform and street demonstrations taking place in other Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 17 | JAMES FREEMAN , chairman of the Mid-Hants Railway plc , the company which runs the Watercress Line between Alresford and Alton , has reported favourably on the past six months trading in a briefing for shareholders and members , writes RICHARD BEAN . |
| 18 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 19 | The 27-year-old Spaniard , who has won twice on the US Tour in the past , added : ‘ The rough is still too high for my liking , but is not set up as difficult as I 've seen US Open courses . |
| 20 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 21 | Since its inception in 1980 , the superfund has moved slowly on the country 's 11 000 dangerous dumps . |
| 22 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 23 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 24 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 25 | The experts claim it 's not a vintage year , so the spotlight has shone firmly on the models . |
| 26 | Were such a test to be adopted in future , it would reintroduce into British obscenity law a wholly subjective assessment of taste and decency with respect to works of art and public communications , and it would do so by amending an Act which was designed to focus solely on the question of harm . |
| 27 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 28 | I want to focus here on an ‘ affordable ’ way of reaching a maximum number of teachers with this aim , i.e. the group consultative training approach . |
| 29 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 30 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |