Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unions also opposed a further government emergency measure of June 26 , creating a new wage indexing mechanism , which could only be used twice in a year and which forbade employers to pass on increased wage costs to consumers through higher prices . |
| 2 | The completion accounts at the completion date shall be audited by ABC 's existing auditors , [ name ] and prepared on a basis consistent with prior years in so far as these are in accordance with accounting standards and generally accepted and adopted United Kingdom accounting practices for companies carrying on similar businesses save as defined in the purchase and sale agreement . |
| 3 | Financial Services — Unauthorised investments — Third party — Solicitors acting for companies carrying on unauthorised investment business — Whether Securities and Investments Board 's right of action for benefit of investors available against third parties — Whether action against solicitors to be struck out — Financial Services Act 1986 ( c. 60 ) , ss. 6(2) , 61(1) |
| 4 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |
| 5 | Where consumers are rationed on the labour ( or any other ) market , the formation of expectations takes on additional significance . |
| 6 | Banks carrying on offshore banking business in Labuan are not subject to exchange controls . |
| 7 | The underframes carried on six-wheeled bogies were identical . |
| 8 | The thought of shops shut for days brings on deep depression . |
| 9 | Where , for example , children are considered at risk of physical harm it is important that medical authorities pass on relevant information about non-accidental injuries and teachers report cases of obvious neglect , or comprehensive risk registers are compiled . |
| 10 | Section 5 of the Act provides remedies for individual investors who have entered into investment agreements with persons carrying on unauthorised investment businesses . |
| 11 | The Black Country in its early days was still country , ‘ a countryside in course of becoming industrialised ; more and more a strung-out web of iron-working villages , market towns next door to collieries , heaths and wastes gradually and very slowly being covered by the cottages of nailers and other persons carrying on industrial occupations in rural surroundings ’ . |
| 12 | John , playing from Great Aycliffe , goes through to the area finals of the national championships to take on international Cliff Simpson ( Hartlepool ) on a neutral venue . |
| 13 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 14 | The Soviet plan would scrap all nuclear mines , torpedoes and depth charges , as well as cruise missiles and nuclear bombs and missiles carried on naval aircraft . |
| 15 | To these weapons , NATO 's response has long been the Polaris and Poseidon missiles carried on nuclear submarines . |
| 16 | In the context of giant industries such as electricity supply the questions take on considerable significance . |
| 17 | The sunny weather and the end of exams brought on other priorities . |
| 18 | The number of passengers carried on international flights quadrupled between 1960 and 1970 , and quadrupled again ( to 4.2 million ) between 1970 and 1988 . |
| 19 | But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st . |
| 20 | In these circumstances , the familiar Renaissance claim that poetry teaches and delights takes on new implications , pleasure among readers is not only how their attention and co-option to the didactic intention is achieved . |
| 21 | The difference in the political context meant that the formulation and transmission of government objectives took on different forms and involved different actors in the two cases , most notably where the unions were concerned , as we shall see . |
| 22 | The Financial Services Act 1986 introduced a régime for the control of persons and bodies carrying on various kinds of financial business , or offering financial services by what has come to be known as self-regulation . |
| 23 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 24 | Ensuring that private practitioners take on preventive activities and promote healthy behaviour by their patients requires a substantial move away from a strictly market led approach . |
| 25 | A scheme the weekly earnings disregard from £15 for a man and dependent wife to £60 a week for six months , to encourage the over-50s to take on part-time work . |
| 26 | These features take on particular interest when combined with the findings of Squire ( 1964 ) whose study of readers not only found evidence of a considerable need on the part of adolescent readers for association and empathy with the characters in a work of fiction , but also a clear correlation between emotional involvement with a story and the formulation of literary judgment . |
| 27 | Modernism , the tip of whose iceberg is visible by the mid-nineteenth century , but whose social conditions of existence are pervasive only from the end of that century , is an end point of this differentiation , a point at which spheres take on full autonomy . |
| 28 | Those located at holiday resorts took on extra staff to deal with the increased demand brought about by an influx of summer visitors . |
| 29 | Naturalists took on enormous workloads , driving themselves to the limit both physically and mentally . |
| 30 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |