Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clause which merely imposes on the parties an obligation to renegotiate prices from time to time , once an initial period has elapsed , will simply turn the agreement , on the lapse of the initial period , into an agreement to agree , which is then void for uncertainty . |
| 2 | Lloyd 's has hitherto relied on the promises of rich men and women to meet exceptional insurance losses from their personal resources ; in recompense for this personal risk , they were often handsomely rewarded . |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 4 | Towards 2000 will see members of FYT Regional groups and committees meet together to work on the needs of marginalised young people in the last decade of this century . |
| 5 | Sometimes , one finds it hard to understand why Americans are so disliked on the sports field . |
| 6 | No general rules can be laid down as to the reasonableness of a time period because these obviously depend on the facts of each case , however as Lord Shaw said in the Morris ( Herbert ) case " as the time of the restriction lengthens and the space of its operation extends , the weight of the onus on the covenantee grows " . |
| 7 | Much depends on the intangibles which produce whatever it is in the ether that allows creative sparks to ignite . |
| 8 | Finally , after Mr Luciano Pavarotti and the entire leadership of the rest of the world had appeared on the wall for Mr Major , a modest , smiling , bespectacled figure was suddenly seen on the stairs . |
| 9 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 10 | But super-cool Mansell had needed all his skill when the Williams car 's hydraulic system totally failed , suddenly jamming on the brakes and locking it in gear at 150mph . |
| 11 | The two defectors , Rabbi Averham Verdiger and Rabbi Eliezer Mizrahi , had apparently acted on the instructions of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson , the Hasidic leader of the Lubavitch sect of orthodox Judaism ; although resident in Brooklyn , New York , his profound influence on Israeli politics was widely acknowledged . |
| 12 | Setting her firmly down on the wide base of the large shower cubicle , he swiftly turned on the taps , before joining her beneath the cascade of fresh water . |
| 13 | Hand crossbow , rolling purchase arbalest and Moorish three-pointed dagger ; all used on the crusades and during Barbarossa 's Italian campaigns . |
| 14 | What steps are reasonable in any particular case will obviously depend on the circumstances in which the policeman ( or the citizen ) finds himself , but these might include requiring trespassers to leave , requiring a speaker to move from his chosen spot , or to desist from speaking altogether , calling for quiet when noise seems likely to provoke a breach of the peace ; in short , anything that is necessary to prevent the breach from occurring . |
| 15 | Our troops could only move on the roads and had to be supplied with food . |
| 16 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 17 | I 'm working on 12 single figures all based on the apostles , the last series of paintings was very much more bathers . |
| 18 | We are basically settled on the areas that we want to service . |
| 19 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 20 | These all originate on the stipes and include the levator and depressor of the palp , the flexor of the galea and the stipital flexor of the lacinia. to . |
| 21 | It was the undertaker , to give him his common nomenclature , who provided what was considered ‘ correct ’ in a given situation , and he alone decided on the trappings . |
| 22 | And we meet the couple whose wedding literally started on the rocks . |
| 23 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 24 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 25 | However , once more , it is unknown how often silent evasion went undetected : the official machinery was not extensive enough to check on the activities of all small employers . |
| 26 | ‘ Whatever you tell me , I can only reveal on the orders of the Holy Father , the Pope in Avignon . |
| 27 | In the past decade the discussion of broadcasting , for so long centred on the peculiarities of ‘ FrancoFrench ’ in fighting within the hexagon , has increasingly encompassed destabilising international factors . |
| 28 | So as not to arouse suspicion , they continued fishing as usual , and when one of the bodies was discovered on the beach of Predmouth Bay a week later it had been so battered on the rocks that the Justices at Fowey had no reason to suspect foul play . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , so far such improvements are nowhere to be seen , and we can only speculate on the reasons for their absence . |
| 30 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |