Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to go ahead on the lines which have brought prosperity at home ? |
| 2 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Since its inception in 1980 , the superfund has moved slowly on the country 's 11 000 dangerous dumps . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 19 | The experts claim it 's not a vintage year , so the spotlight has shone firmly on the models . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 22 | The young bird has to perch upright on the rim while it grows its feathers . |
| 23 | If we 're going to do any more quizzes this is the sort of thing we 're going to need to know to do well on the sports sections . |
| 24 | The new enlightenment 's assault on social democracy has focused particularly on the concept of ‘ dependency ’ . |
| 25 | During the 1980s the discussion about disparities of prosperity between different regions in the UK has focused increasingly on the issue of the North-South divide . |
| 26 | As with most artists who have become mythical personalities in the popular imagination , such attention has focused primarily on the anecdotal and tragic details of Kahlo 's admittedly fascinating life . |
| 27 | In view of the educational importance of explanation , it is surprising that so little research has focused directly on the development of children 's ability to give and understand explanations ; or on how children actually cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 28 | To date the analysis of this has focused mainly on the roles played by these units in the MNEs ' approach to global strategy , and the administrative procedures adopted to use them effectively . |
| 29 | The time has come to build further on the foundations of the achievements of the trustees and professional staffs , the public 's growing interest and the Government 's profound commitment to the future of these great institutions . |
| 30 | Since the second world war , US foreign policy has rested largely on the identification of ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ , in the context of global superpower . |