Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 2 | This refers to disorder on a widespread scale , and the officer should take into account not merely his own resources , but those that can be made available to him through the use of the mutual aid provisions of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 3 | All this came to mind on sight of a communication from , of all places , Customs & Excise Debt Management Division Branch 4 ( Insolvency Branch ) . |
| 4 | This came to light on Aug. 7 after the collapse of a fourth round of negotiations on exchange rates between the East German Economics Minister Gerhard Pohl and the then Czechoslovak Foreign Trade Minister Slavomir Stracar . |
| 5 | According to a draft budget for 1993 submitted to parliament on Oct. 17 , government spending would total TL412,710 billion , borrowing would be TL140,366 billion , repayments of domestic and foreign debt would amount to TL67,056 billion , and the projected deficit would be TL73,310 billion ( US$1.00=TL7,919.02 as at Oct. 26 , 1992 ) . |
| 6 | Some went to town on Bolivia 's planetary responsibility , warning that such barbarian customs would eventually lead to the flooding of New York and Miami and the extinction of the human race . |
| 7 | By this stage the airlines had been able to restore a basic service by recruiting new pilots , persuading pilots out of retirement and persuading some to return to work on individual contracts . |
| 8 | But she went on : ‘ It was the day Sabine went to supper on the boat . ’ |
| 9 | Nanny Fanny was also a Jewess , which caused a lot of bad feeling because Smallfry called herself a Catholic and so they believed in different pars of the Bible and were supposed to go to church on different days of the week . |
| 10 | It 's no good going to work on the details unless you have this ‘ vision ’ . |
| 11 | The essential differences remain the same as last year : whaling nations such as Japan , Norway and Iceland [ which withdrew from the IWC at the start of the meeting — see ED 59/60 ] accuse those opposed to whaling on largely ethical grounds , including the UK and US , of : i ) misinterpreting the charter of the IWC , which was set up to regulate and sustain whale hunting , not to decide on the morality of whaling as such ; and ii ) interfering with the economic livelihoods of whaling communities . |
| 12 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 13 | Post-war interviews carried out by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , confirmed such impressions : one out of three Germans indicated that his morale was affected by bombing more than any other single factor ; nine in ten of those interviewed mentioned bombing as the greatest hardship they had to suffer in the war ; three in five admitted to war-weariness on account of the bombing , and the percentage not wanting to go on with the war was significantly higher in heavily bombed than unbombed towns ; more than two-fifths said they lost hope in German victory when the raids did not stop ; and the percentage of people with confidence in the leadership was fourteen per cent lower in heavily bombed than in unbombed towns . |
| 14 | Finally , there is the suggestion that organic molecules arose elsewhere in the Universe , perhaps on dust particles in space , and were first carried to Earth on meteorites . |
| 15 | The Iraqi " supergun " affair , as it came to be known in the UK media , first came to light on April 10 when UK customs officials in Teesside detained a consignment of steel cylinders bound for Iraq . |
| 16 | Scudamore has opted for Chatham instead of stablemate Rushing Wild who first sprang to prominence on Gold Cup day 12 months ago when he demolished the opposition in the Foxhunter Challenge Cup . |
| 17 | He stammered his thanks as the Western sprang to life on the screen and Sweetheart slipped from her seat in a waft of perfume . |