Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission created a subcommission of members in Paris with Friedel as chairman to work on the document . |
| 2 | There may be a tendency for courts to err on the side of caution , and for orders to be made for the full length of time , but the recent judgement by the High Court in relation to an appeal in North Yorkshire may encourage the courts to exercise discretion with greater confidence , and take advice from the GAL . |
| 3 | Their Lordships expressed the opinion that in the absence of some exceptional circumstance such as bad faith or improper motive on the part of the Minister it was inappropriate for courts to intervene on the ground of unreasonableness in a matter of public financial administration of this kind . |
| 4 | Protocols specified the level of " economic convergence " required for states to embark on the third and final stage of EMU . |
| 5 | Apart from any sense of injustice which it might create between one plaintiff and another , it would make it even more difficult for counsel to advise on the correct figure for settlement . |
| 6 | With the housing market still struggling to recover , the Bonners may not be moving in the very near future — but it 's rare for follies to come on the market , especially ones you can live in — so it may not be long before a buyer comes along keen to take up residence in Enoch 's Tower . |
| 7 | The first meeting would concentrate on users ’ views , with an opportunity for CW to elaborate on the IT Review . |
| 8 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 9 | The band left us after lunch to play on the esplanade of Stirling Castle . |
| 10 | My three trunks were upended in the corner ready for Curtis to send on the train . |
| 11 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 12 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 13 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 14 | I said that I hope to breed the fish in this tank , but at the moment there does not appear to be any indication of willingness to breed on the part of any of the fish . |
| 15 | Once you have found the blockage ( see opposite ) , you will need a drain clearing set ( this can be hired ) consisting of rods which are screwed together with a choice of accessories to fit on the end . |
| 16 | It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems . |
| 17 | Potential will be assessed in other cases , though , against a team who will have millions of pounds worth of talent to spare on the substitutes bench . |
| 18 | There was still an immense amount of work to do on the boat , not the least of which , it seemed to us , was replacing her rotting mainmast . |
| 19 | 1 This farmer has to get his dog , a duck and a bag of corn to market on the other side of the river . |
| 20 | In 1862 he travelled to the island of Sardinia to advise on the developing railway system there . |
| 21 | Costs had been taxed in the action at law but it was no business of the courts of law to decide on the amount that , in equity , the mortgagee would be allowed in a redemption action . |
| 22 | Canadian troops trained with the British amphibious forces at Inverary ( Argyll ) and were then taken in SS Empress of Canada to land on the island , 600 miles from the North Pole , on 24 August 1941 . |
| 23 | There must be real doubt the power of HDTV to persuade on the basis of picture quality alone . |
| 24 | Peter Berger , like Child and Goff , brought the social psychology of Mead to bear on the sociology of knowledge which emphasized the role of socialization in constituting individual identity ; ‘ psychological reality is an ongoing dialectical relationship with social structure ’ ( Berger 1970 : 374 ) . |
| 25 | The afore-mentioned tendency of writers to insist on the fictionality of their work is to be understood partly in the context of the attitude here expressed by Borges . |
| 26 | Sampson , on the other hand , does not seem to feel in the least inhibited by his own lack of competence to pronounce on the matter . |
| 27 | In short , it seems inevitable that most PC software will need some kind of re-write to run on the Portfolio , and some of it will never fit at all . |
| 28 | Therefore the model which recognises the regeneration of hydrocarbons to occur on the attainment of the previous maximum exposure temperature is a likely description of actual processes . |
| 29 | And if you do choose to use teacher-in-role there are going to be many occasions when you 'll have to step out of role to reflect on the work . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're developing a spreadsheet product that will allow a group of people to interact on the same spreadsheet , so people can contribute different ideas , assumptions and scenarios to a common spreadsheet . |