Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 2 | The crystallisation of an earlier floating charge does not crystallise a subsequent floating charge since the subsequent chargee may pay off the earlier charge or agree to indemnify the company which continues to carry on business despite the crystallisation of the earlier charge with respect to any liability incurred towards the earlier chargee . |
| 3 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 4 | A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge . |
| 5 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 6 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 7 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 8 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 9 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 10 | ‘ I will act as a conduit to pass on information to the OFT , but only the OFT has the power to amend its report . ’ |
| 11 | Once a bankruptcy order is made , it is likely that the proceedings commenced by a Government department in the High Court under r 6.9(1) ( o ) will be transferred to the appropriate county court if the debtor does not reside or carry on business within the London insolvency district . |
| 12 | However , where a defendant does not reside or carry on business within the district of the court and he desires the action to be transferred to the court for the district in which he resides or carries on business , he may , after delivering a defence , counterclaim , or request for time for payment , apply ex parte in writing for an order to transfer the action to that court . |
| 13 | In Campbell v. Neilson ( 1897 ) 24 R. ( J. ) 28 , where the circumstances were similar , it was said by Lord Justice-General Robertson at p. 30 : " It is the transferee alone who can lawfully carry on business in the premises under the certificate . |
| 14 | If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 15 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 16 | He always yawns a lot and says Who ? in a bored voice when I pass on news from the Edwardian , but I suspect he 's interested . |
| 17 | Davies says deepsea fish are attracted to the drums , then move to shallower waters and pass on radio-activity through the food chain . |
| 18 | He leant over to where keys hung on hooks in the wall and took a huge , rusting one down . |
| 19 | A large collection of sun-hats hung on pegs in the entrance hall , bowls were filled with dried lavender and a huge pottery jar was crammed with walking-sticks , some of which had ornate silver handles . |
| 20 | Here are some very brief ideas as to how the Pied Piper suggestions might work in practice : After the story has been read to the class , children might take on roles as the townspeople of Hamelin . |
| 21 | MICHELOZZO , winner of the St Leger by eight lengths , will take on Nashwan in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket a week on Saturday after being supplemented for £10,000 yesterday . |
| 22 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 23 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 24 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 25 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 26 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 27 | Buckinghamshire under 21s are taking on Yorkshire in the semi final of the county championship … kick-off is at 2 |
| 28 | Young John Lucas , who lived hard by and sat on Professor Ramsey 's head to recite Greek verbs , heard stories from his father of Ramsey taking on atheists in the university in public debate and wiping the floor with them . |
| 29 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 30 | Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season . |