Example sentences of "[verb] on the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 2 | ‘ She wants to pass on the message that the world is still a great place despite everything . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's what you put on the inside that counts , not what you do to the outside , ’ he said . |
| 4 | In retrospect , the techniques that have given molecular biology its pace have hung on the principle that life , which has evolved the manipulative techniques by which it is itself sustained , must also embody the techniques for which laboratories cry out . |
| 5 | ‘ Very well , pass on the message that I will clear Mr Grenfell 's name . ’ |
| 6 | Please , the branch 's Mrs Elizabeth Allen says , pass on the message that acknowledgments of mail are not required and indeed delay responses to more important correspondence . |
| 7 | The same smell of stale tobacco hung on the air that she recalled from her only meeting with Tatyana Nowak the day before her suicide . |
| 8 | One is that the not guilty verdict was brought on the understanding that she sought medical help in a psychiatric hospital , and that poor Jane finished her days in Broadmoor . |
| 9 | I also note that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) — who said , when he took on the job that there would be ’ no more phoney shadow Cabinet Budgets ’ — has now promised that there will be a phoney shadow Cabinet Budget . |
| 10 | Maybe the time has come when they will now pass on the secret that they have so jealously guarded . |
| 11 | Please , I 'll pass on the information that you 've received , contact Kevin or myself for the details that are on the leaflets we 've put about . |
| 12 | And they will never pass on the fact that owners could be liable to the same punishment . |
| 13 | ‘ Did you get my telephone tapped or did you simply pass on the suggestion that it should be done ? ’ |
| 14 | It 's a question of recognition for the Union and we 're quite prepared , and looking forward , to going back there and carrying on the work that we were doing before . |
| 15 | An urgent decision was taken on the surface that the men would have to be brought out in groups of three . |
| 16 | 120 golfers have taken on the challenges that Woburn has to offer . |
| 17 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |
| 18 | On April 4 President Özal announced that Turkey had admitted 100,000 Kurdish refugees , reversing its previous decision to close its borders ( which it had taken on the grounds that it had neither the infra-structure nor the resources to cope with the flood of Kurdish refugees ) . |
| 19 | Fox and Stephen Brown L.JJ. noted , at pp. 1080 and 1089 , that the relevant statements were not taken on the basis that they were merely ‘ to be used for a private investigation to see if the police had acted improperly in any way ’ — one of the two main reasons for Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Neilson v. Laugharne , the other being that the plaintiff there was merely ‘ fishing . ’ |
| 20 | The dependency should be taken on the basis that the wife would be maintained at the same rate of expenditure throughout her life . |