Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayling had realized that although women 's interests were being looked after on the paper , there was already suspicion of NoS in the black community . |
| 2 | But you may be able to complain to a tribunal that you have been discriminated against on the grounds of sex or race , even if the company concerned never offered you a job . |
| 3 | She claimed that she had been discriminated against on the grounds of sex contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . |
| 4 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 5 | Judge Wroath had applied the right test and come to a decision which he was entitled to come to on the evidence before him . |
| 6 | So what we say on on the basis of Mr Justice er victory Nat West and Midland bank and the er authority in er that this evidence is not in this report , does n't assist you and what is relevant is |
| 7 | The report of the Committee is set out in committee document B referred to on the agenda . |
| 8 | The report of the Committee is set out in committee document M referred to on the agenda . |
| 9 | The report of the Committee is set out in committee document N referred to on the agenda . |
| 10 | The report of the Committee is set out in document T referred to on the agenda . |
| 11 | The multiplication of agencies as a means to greater bureaucratic efficiency may be objected to on the grounds that one of the major obstacles to the successful implementation of government programmes has been found to be the existence of numerous competing administrative bodies which so many programmes seem to involve because of overlapping policy fields and jurisdictions ( Gunn 1978 ) . |
| 12 | Under 5.1(12) , however , the election of a board member is not vitiated by a technical defect in the proceedings which has not prejudiced other interested parties in the election , and , under s.2(6) , the grant of a new licence is not to be objected to on the ground that any of the members of the board granting it were not qualified to grant the licence . |
| 13 | So to lighten our load and ensure that your answer is passed on quickly would you please put each response in a separate envelope with the name of the reader it is addressed to on the front . |
| 14 | The people the people who are living in Kuwait , they got all the basic erm services such as electricity and water , which is , you know , water is processed a mechanically processed system , we do n't have rivers and we do n't have portable water wells erm we process our own water through erm desalination plants located at on the gulf . |
| 15 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 16 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 17 | New shares are applied for on the expectation that the issue will be underpriced and hence a profit might be made on the difference between the immediate market price and the issue or striking price . |
| 18 | Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 19 | It would have been selected for on the basis of our ability to kill certain animals for food and to avoid being killed by other animals . |
| 20 | So one person will do the bandage on the elbow and the other person with the good looking knees , you 'll be the casualty for where you 've got to put the knee bandage on , cos you wo n't , if you do n't roll your trousers up a bit you 're not going to have much bandage to do much bandaging with on the knee , okay , so decide amongst yourselves who 's got the good looking knee |
| 21 | Well I went to the United States , I I I sailed from on the R M S Corinthia , from Liverpool on the twenty eighth of September , nineteen twenty nine , and arrived in New York , on the seventh or eighth of September in nineteen twenty nine , which was just one week before the stock market crash . |
| 22 | He purchased of me — the copies left on my hands — and he alone is to be applied to on the point you wish answered . ’ |
| 23 | The arguments of Tallis and Scholes against a major aspect of poststructuralist theory and practice should be attended to on the level at which they are advanced . |
| 24 | I said but when I come here there are cars everywhere , I says on on the picture |
| 25 | Lord Haw-Haw , the British traitor who goes here by the name of Froelich , but whose real name is William Joyce and whose voice millions of English listen to on the radio every night , and his English wife were at the party , but I avoided them . ’ |
| 26 | Because they just do n't seem to be aware of the difficulties , people have of living on on the breadline and under the breadline . |
| 27 | You know and I mean cos Dave totally refuses on on the poll tax to have a standing order or direct debit . |
| 28 | And I think er w we 're concerned that erm the the case presented by the county has in in concentrating on migration , perhaps they have n't have n't fully expanded on on the points that they 've raised in document N Y eleven . |
| 29 | Depends on on the success of their audience they got for the pantomime , not |
| 30 | Um I 'm not quite sure wheth whether you 'd call it bullying , whether you 'd call it child sex abuse , whether you 'd whatever you call it I think depends on the ages of the participants and depends on on the perspective of the person who 's describing it as well |