Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process , the time has come to embark on another major step , that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure . |
| 2 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 3 | I noted what my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) said and it is interesting that , in reply , the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) has tried to sit on both sides of the fence on the difficult question of acquisitions and disposals . |
| 4 | Erich Fromm , who has continued to work on both lines of development together , as psychoanalysis should , has equally unfortunately dropped the death instincts , and at times the sexual instincts , out of his work . |
| 5 | It has begun to dawn on some investors that Waste Management is set to finance its growth by acquisition through the issue of paper . |
| 6 | Though Alner has failed to finish on both occasions he has ridden Seven of Diamonds this season , the horse won at the two previous meetings on this afternoon 's course , when partnered by Malcolm Batters . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , as will be seen from both Precedent 1 and Precedent 2 , neither the buyer nor the seller has chosen to rely on this maxim . |
| 8 | While the debate has continued , women have felt compelled to work on both strategies , depending on their local situations and , of course , their own vocational preferences . |
| 9 | But imagine having to take on those disgusting poodles … ’ |
| 10 | What it came down to was this : if I was going to do anything I was going to have to take on another part-time catering or cleaning job . |
| 11 | The gridded diagrams show very clearly that an Edwardian cyclist , lacking the eighteen gears of a modern mountain-bike , would have had to dismount on several occasions along the Earsdon Mill ( West Linkhall section of the route ) . |
| 12 | The records of salt imports are incomplete , and the only tables which can be compiled have to draw on several years in any period to include all the ports involved . |
| 13 | Suspicion did tend to focus on these people . |
| 14 | Those who go quiet and coy even when offended need to work on this . |
| 15 | The gunners claimed two Ju88s shot down , one of which may in fact have been an He111H of 6/KG 26 , which failed to return to base on this date . |
| 16 | The following day , Jan. 14 , however , State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler described as a " definite change of position " the strict neutrality the US administration had decided to adopt on this question . |
| 17 | Erm but then weighing things up I 've got to reflect on that one . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean we 've got to go on that ? ’ he said . |
| 19 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 20 | ‘ Now I 've got work to do and you 've got to stay on that bed . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said . |
| 22 | I 've had to take on more staff at the workshop in Killearn . ’ |
| 23 | There , Mortimer conducted a briefing for some fifty of his men , who had volunteered to go on that night 's operation . |
| 24 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |
| 25 | I had begun to look on that photograph as a mascot for my enterprise . |
| 26 | In fact , he said by now they had begun to get on each other 's nerves . |
| 27 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 28 | Even if , in the end , we have to agree to differ on some matters , grievances should be discussed , not camouflaged . |
| 29 | Erm I do n't think I have been down to that I think I 've sh erm wired the whole damn out of my mind because er it 's a long time since I heard such garbage in this chamber , it 's fortunate for us Chairman that Mr is n't a member of the Environment Committee because if that 's the kind of contribution that he 's prepared to make on these occasions we would could well do without it . |
| 30 | originally she was going to do it , but there 's a new one come in and she 's decided to go on this management , managements and it 's the new one |