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 .
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