Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same can probably be claimed for those who for reasons which had little to do with humanitarian concern — fearing Jewish revenge in the event of a lost war , or blaming Hitler for bringing on the war through attacking the Jews , attitudes which of course themselves betrayed the influence of Nazi ‘ Jewish conspiracy ’ propaganda — were voicing criticism of Nazi anti Jewish policy . |
| 2 | Paul battered John after going on a night of ‘ louting ’ . |
| 3 | In the Squirrel 's case , 30 seconds after switching on the booster you push Start . |
| 4 | After switching on the light he sat down behind his solid oak desk … made , on his orders , from Bittsevsky oak … , opened his leather-bound diary and scanned the day 's agenda . |
| 5 | A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ he said finally , helping her to walk with Matey 's assistance , ‘ I have heard of the ladies ’ sewing circle accused of many things , but never of bringing on a swoon . |
| 7 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 8 | If you absolutely insist in giving all your information in the first answer , there 's no room for a further question , and the best kind of response is the one that leaves the next question sort of hanging on the end of it , so that the interviewer can come back with another question . |
| 9 | Morton caught Edward 's involuntary eye-movements , but instead of pouncing , instead of switching on the bluster , he changed gear . |
| 10 | Cos we came in and Chrissy , instead of switching on the children 's programmes put his computer on so we did n't see it . |
| 11 | This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector . |
| 12 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 13 | Although it is always very tempting to think of taking on a dog from a rescue centre , so offering it a good home , this can prove problematic in the long term , unless you know the dog 's background . |
| 14 | Senior lecture Adrian Evans said it was ‘ tragic ’ that companies were failing to recognise the mutual benefits of taking on a student for a year . |
| 15 | Lord King , the BA Chairman , talked of the need to create an airline which was ‘ capable of taking on the world ’ in an increasingly ‘ global market place ’ ( refer to Table 2.2 ) . |
| 16 | And with the large capital invetment involved , the customer depends on the fact that any new model must be capable of taking on the task in hand without difficulty — there is no room for mere gimmicks . |
| 17 | The court was , I think , going no further than was necessary to decide the case before it : the corporation was a private corporation formed under an Act of Parliament which was capable of holding property and of carrying on a business . |
| 18 | Criminal and civil liability under Part II of the Consumer Protection Act attaches only to persons who are acting ‘ in the course of carrying on a business . ’ |
| 19 | Joseph Anthony Villa , boss of the company since 1966 , admitted 13 charges of carrying on a food business in unclean premises . |
| 20 | To obtain interest relief on loans to subscribe shares in a Newco which is to purchase the business of , rather than shares in , Target , it appears that management no longer has the difficulty of persuading the Revenue that Newco " exists wholly or mainly for the purpose of carrying on a trade … " , as required by s13A(2) ( a ) . |
| 21 | There the Revenue argued that , at the time the tax payers subscribed their shares , Newco did not exist for the purpose of carrying on a trade ; its only identifiable purpose was to acquire a business . |
| 22 | Management will want to ensure that Newco is a company which " exists for the purpose of carrying on a trade or trades on a commercial basis " within s13A(2) TA 1988 , and that this purpose test is satisfied from the commencement of its first accounting period . |
| 23 | In other words , whilst women , as it were , merely conducted the animal-like repetitive tasks of carrying on the reproduction of the human race , men , by one supreme symbolic act , imposed themselves upon nature and enacted a cultural rebirth . |
| 24 | Job fractionation is a way of reducing costs of carrying on the work by reducing the skill contribution of the individual who performs it . |
| 25 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 26 | There was no question of his ever returning to the office , or of carrying on the firm . |
| 27 | But the both brothers who owned it er Charles er John and Tom were becoming very very aged and were not capable of carrying on the job . |
| 28 | Though that Act makes the partnership a corporation , [ it is said ] … that this is merely for the purpose of carrying on the business mentioned in it , and that it can only sue in respect of matters necessarily incident to that purpose . |
| 29 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 30 | Before switching on the engine he studied his maps . |