Example sentences of "act on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you make a written request for a change in your payment arrangements , we will act on this as promptly as possible and where we are unable to comply with your request , we will send a full response within 10 working days . |
| 2 | Vincent did n't act on this heady , alarming advice for some time to come . |
| 3 | He was not simply T'ang , he was Seven , and the Seven would never act on this . |
| 4 | They must act on this opportunity to ensure that young doctors working in the NHS receive the training that they need and deserve . |
| 5 | I 'll act on this , try it out with the Lower Sixth … see if it upsets them … see if they complain about the load vis à vis English , etc … ’ |
| 6 | A further enzyme , alpha 1,4 fucosyltransferase , can also act on this substrate to produce the Lewis b antigen but acts on a different substrate to produce the Lewis a antigen . |
| 7 | Acting on this belief , he has : taken one of the most outspoken current-affairs programmes , ‘ Vzglyad ’ ( Outlook ) , off the air ; confiscated the property of the independent news agency Interfax , which was saved from closure only by the intervention of Boris Yeltsin and the Moscow city council ; suspended a free-thinking television news show called ‘ TSN ’ ; and consigned Radio Russia , Mr Yeltsin 's mouthpiece , to a frequency where most of the population can not hear it begin its broadcasts with phrases like ‘ In another move reminiscent of Stalinism , President Gorbachev today … ’ |
| 8 | It is based on the minister 's assertion that there was no delay by the manufacturers , Dista Products Ltd. in giving the Committee on Safety of Medicines ( CSM ) information about accumulation of the drug in the elderly ; nor by CSM in acting on this and on its own reports of adverse reactions . |
| 9 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 10 | The last word must go to Alfred Russel Wallace , who so brilliantly understood the forces acting on this distribution and wrote over a century ago : |
| 11 | A deputation from Bedford Corporation , acting on this occasion as the Sewer Authority , proposed joint action to build a temporary smallpox hospital on land held by the local government board . |
| 12 | Now another Foreign Secretary , much junior much more Baldwin 's protege , whether through intention or exhaustion , was acting on this precept with avidity . |
| 13 | We know now that the world was not designed for us , but we have n't come round to acting on this knowledge . |
| 14 | Acting on this principle judges have occasionally corrected a statute that foolishly said ‘ and ’ when it meant ‘ or , ’ or that foolishly said ‘ or ’ when it meant ‘ and . ’ |
| 15 | Some authorities , notably Gilbert , maintained that most of the material was supplied by longshore drift and that the waves merely acted on this material : others , especially de Beaumont , considered that the material contained in the bar was eroded from the sea bed in front of the bar , as is shown in Fig. 8.18 . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a humiliating thought , but true , ’ wrote one of them , the educational reformer J. H. Pestalozzi , ‘ that any advance in the good leadership of people must proceed from the cabinets of monarchs ’ ; and he himself acted on this thought by offering his services to the Habsburg emperors Joseph II and Leopold II . |
| 17 | Given the above potential for arbitrage profits , it was argued that if enough investors acted on this opportunity , the price of ABC Ltd would rise and that of XYZ Ltd would fall in response to the changing pattern of demand . |
| 18 | The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report . |
| 19 | Lord acted on this suggestion , and took out a lease on a seven-acre field on the Portman estate in Marylebone , later Dorset Square . |
| 20 | The Scottish National winner is just 3lb higher than when successful at Wincanton earlier this month , stays really well and acts on this testing ground . |
| 21 | I will endeavour to act on this information . |
| 22 | But the hearer still has to act on this indication and find which particular farmer is thereby being referred to . |
| 23 | If one is prepared to act on this view of the need for more extensive training and greater access to deaf people , there are still other series of factors concerning language learning to be accounted for . |
| 24 | They had to ask each other about one element in the writing that they wanted to know more about , and each writer had to act on this question . |
| 25 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 26 | Your Lordship may well find it was reasonable for the police to act on this information . |
| 27 | Responding to Labour criticism of the Government 's failure to implement a manifesto pledge on legislation to crack down on the sale and carrying of knives , Lord Fraser said ministers would like to act on this at an early opportunity . |