Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 2 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 3 | I did n't go in June with being full of cold , I just knocked on door and that got him out . |
| 4 | One young woman claimed to have wept her way into a degree but once started on work and a career , never used such tricks again . |
| 5 | When the Surrey militia descended on Rye and Winchelsea in 1793 , the local publicans promptly went on strike and the only answer was the construction of special barracks . |
| 6 | The realisation of this fact slowly dawned on Sun and its chip partner Texas Instruments Inc sometime in September causing them to redesign Viking 's metal masks . |
| 7 | She also claimed on television that 152 old drawings had disappeared . |
| 8 | The sub-conscious mind , it seems , also relied on time and chance . |
| 9 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 10 | Then strew on water and make the people drink . |
| 11 | The cameraman then came on board and we left the quay ; we returned and he transferred to a motor boat to film us leaving the quay . |
| 12 | Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres . |
| 13 | She then lectured on philosophy and economics for the Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 14 | These hotels are a new addition to Kuoni 's hotel programme , which previously concentrated on deluxe and out-of-town accommodation . |
| 15 | In 1871 he again talked on dust and smoke , describing a respirator he had invented using charcoal to absorb noxious fumes ; this device to assist firemen was in the Royal Institution tradition going back to Davy 's miner 's lamp . |
| 16 | Mr Rushdie , who recently declared on television that he was no longer prepared to remain shut away from the world , spent the evening with a few favoured friends . |
| 17 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 18 | Like most of the other women in the refuge , she never went on holiday after she was married , never went to the pictures and rarely went out . |
| 19 | Many great players never smiled on court but were great people off the court — as Steffi is . |
| 20 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |