Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | However , as I am conscious of the strong feeling that the hon. Lady has registered on behalf of her constituents , I assure her that before a plant can be registered for an incinerator it must comply with the emissions standards enforced by Her Majesty 's industrial pollution inspectorate . |
2 | Since DDI , the number of calls at Colchester General 's switchboard has fallen on average to 3,000 . |
3 | Her visit to the Association 's headquarters in Carlisle in November 1983 was the first of many engagements she has undertaken on behalf of the BDA in later years . |
4 | Such costs are unlikely to cover all the work that a solicitor has undertaken on behalf of a client . |
5 | Daren Rowbotham has joined on loan from Birmingham and leads the attack . |
6 | But LibDem leader Paddy Ashdown says Major has reneged on assurance in 1990 that ministers were not dodging an arms ban . |
7 | The rule against prior restraint is secure in libel cases " because of the value the court has placed on freedom of speech and freedom of the press when balancing it against the reputation of a single individual who , if wronged , can be compensated in damages " . |
8 | This method has relied on disaggregation of intact crypt/villus units , which contain proliferative stem cells , functional epithelial cells , and mesenchymal tissue within the villus core . |
9 | The company says that overseas royalties it has earned on behalf of the authors , artists and publishers it represents have increased five-fold in the last three years , and that it currently licenses its properties in 25 countries . |
10 | If he is to succeed , Simpson might have to rely heavily on his father , Gordon Simpson , a former finance director of Shell who has come on board as deputy chairman . |
11 | Tikva , a 26-year-old Israeli , has impressed on trial at the City Ground with the Belgian club pricing him at £500,000 . |
12 | On the subject of repeated offences , will the junior Minister now say why crime has risen on average by 6 per cent . |
13 | Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ . |
14 | The Shanghai and Hongkong Bank has made on offer of £3.1bn for Midland , but is currently reconsidering its offer . |
15 | However , the facts of this case do illustrate the injustice which could arise if Miss Marshall is correct in the admirable submissions which she has advanced on behalf of the landlord , to the effect that in this case he was entitled to resort to self-help . |
16 | Its maker — Central TV 's Political Editor Jon Lander — has drawn on years of lobby experience to explain the workings of the home of democracy . |
17 | EPA Administrator William Reilly has called on industrialists to " exercise choice and imagination " in curbing the pollutants , which include carbon tetrachloride , benzene and chloroform . |
18 | The semantic net has been studied and modified based on principles of analogical inheritance . |
19 | So far this section has focused on deindustrialization as absolute loss of manufacturing jobs . |
20 | Work by social psychologists like Giles and his associates on the other hand , has focused on variation in individuals across different encounters . |
21 | Because the Pretoria government has focused on infection among black people , very little is known about the extent of the epidemic in the white population , but the disease appears to have remained largely within the gay community , with a ratio of 15 to 1 men to women infected with HIV , and clusters of infection in urban centres . |
22 | These models involve training users in skills needed for community survival , including medication management ( Eckman and Liberman , 1990 ) and attention has focused on people with long-term needs , and in involving them more closely in assessment and the selection of goals ( Liberman et al. , 1987 ; Shepherd , 1990a ) . |
23 | The discussion up to now has focused on employment as our index . |
24 | Brad Beitel , the chief technical officer is a 25-year IBM veteran who has focused on multimedia since the early 1980s . |
25 | The exhibition extends outside where , for example , Geneviève Cadieux has set on top of the building an alluring photo-billboard of rouged lips , and Alan Sonfist has planted an evergreen emerging from a splayed ballistic missile . |
26 | Most of the discussion on variations in access to schooling has concentrated on provision in the inner city areas . |
27 | In general , the documented history has concentrated on changes in legislation , buildings , numbers of people and terminology . |
28 | Most of the work of geographers on settlement location , that of Von Thunen , Christaller and Weber for example , has concentrated on settlements as part of a hierarchy of places linked to trading patterns . |
29 | Fieldwork has concentrated on mineralisation in greenstones of the Jurassic Alao division and sediments cut by Cainozoic intrusives . |
30 | Work has concentrated on analysis of two data sets . |