Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Hitler 's scientists had developed another ‘ Victory ’ weapon — the ‘ V2 ’ — it was an advanced form of rocket with a nose-cap filled with high explosive designed to explode on impact . |
| 2 | City Comment : Industry starts to advance on tax |
| 3 | When Matthew Parris and another Tory MP who has since lost his seat tried to live on income support for a week , they both found it virtually impossible . |
| 4 | When there are limits on borrowing , a company or household in financial distress has to survive on cash flow . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much his Department plans to spend on science in 1992-93 . |
| 6 | The major divisions went to the nobility , of course , but a Frankish soldier had to fight on command , in the hope that a successful battle or campaign would realise some spoil for himself . |
| 7 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 8 | Technical publications on computer abuse , security and auditing tend to focus on input , output , access , software and processing controls , while the media is all too often preoccupied with the potential threat posed by viruses and hackers ( see ACCOUNTANCY , April , p 102 , 103 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The committee has to go on record and declare that a drastic reduction in these resources will place the parish structure of the Kirk in jeopardy and seriously damage its mission to the people of Scotland . ’ |
| 10 | The new parent wants to concentrate on rail traction vehicles for railways , industry and mining , which account for 90 per cent of LEW 's sales . |
| 11 | The County Council plans to concentrate on traffic management measures instead . |
| 12 | The amount of money companies like Sun stand to save on testing and retesting applications is substantial . |
| 13 | Conversely , creative jobs in advertising , television or merchant banking seem to thrive on uncertainty and attract people much less interested in power in a managerial sense . |
| 14 | Because retirement creates dependency , and dependency is undesirable , retirement is unlikely to be chosen voluntarily ; therefore the study of retirement has to focus on labour demand from employers , not labour supply from workers . |
| 15 | In a move designed to save on court time , the Scottish Office yesterday confirmed that from 1 April motorists will be offered the chance to accept a fixed penalty notice requiring the payment of a fine within 28 days . |
| 16 | Cut a thin slice of cake trimming to place on top of the head end to give extra height . |
| 17 | Last night , as a tug prepared to remain on standby overnight , with a fresh refloating attempt planned for this morning , an environmental row erupted . |
| 18 | In December of the previous year the Leaders had paid an equally affectionate and touching tribute to a neighbour of Mr Ramsey 's , Mr James Lyske : ‘ This meeting desires to put on record their deep sense of a loss upon the death of Mr James Lyske , a Class Leader for many years , a life-long member of the Memorial Church and an official of the CE Society . |
| 19 | But unsatisfactory in what respect : as representatives of a body established to negotiate on behalf of employees with management acting on behalf of owners ; or as representatives of the union but charged , along with representatives of the owners , with the corporate responsibility for the performance of the enterprise ? |
| 20 | If a group claiming to speak on behalf of elderly people had failed to deliver because its own interests were at variance with those of its wider public , the absence of any promotional or representative body during the following decade rendered the pensioners ' position still more hazardous . |
| 21 | To put this carefully engineered plasmid into the virus the NIH team had to rely on chance . |
| 22 | Storage Technology Corp declined to comment on market rumours that its Iceberg high-speed disk array is about to be completed : it noted that it had made no new statements on Iceberg 's progress since last November when it said that beta site testing will extend into the second half of the current year . |
| 23 | Broadly speaking , a fiduciary relationship will arise when one person undertakes to act on behalf of or for the benefit of another , often as an intermediary with a discretion or power that affects the interests of the other , and that other is in a position of vulnerability in relation to the fiduciary . |
| 24 | The name seemed to act on fitzAlan like a goad . |
| 25 | When a person purports to act on behalf of another , but without his authority , the latter may subsequently ratify the act of the former , and thereby draw to himself both the benefit of , and the liability for , the act . |
| 26 | the Hunter A famous PHANTOM said to gallop on horseback through Windsor Park , near London . |
| 27 | Exactly the opposite seems to happen on television . |
| 28 | … then , without any question of resort to a court of equity , there might have been a defence in a court of law on the ground that any money recoverable on the note by the plaintiffs was recoverable by them merely as trustees for Sir Richard Temple , and that , under the circumstances disclosed by the correspondence , the relations between the father and son were such that it was impossible to suppose that the father wished to insist on payment of the note by the son . |
| 29 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 30 | Despite fast-flowing seas , the three-man crew of the lifeboat managed to scramble on board the shrimper where they discovered Joe Ross , partially submerged inside the cabin . |