Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If the former involves drawing on a richness of tacit knowledge the latter is necessarily concerned with reversing this process , ie with making explicit the tacit richness of design activity . |
2 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
3 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
4 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
5 | One of his pupils , Roger Lancelyn Green , has commented on a letter which Lewis wrote to Warnie describing the ‘ English binge ’ at Christmas 1931 . |
6 | Neither has the polarity between Male and Female which we so take for granted ever been based on rock-solid foundations , but has depended on a variety of shifting meanings . |
7 | In many cases the granting of such credits has depended on a country 's general creditworthiness . |
8 | The hon. Gentleman is so distinguished that it may be some time since he has sat on a Standing Committee . |
9 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
10 | South Buckinghamshire district council has objected on a number of grounds . |
11 | Brown has come on a kind of pilgrimage to the heart of urban blight . |
12 | I am aware he has met on a number of occasions with our members , and he was instrumental in selecting a team , which met with the General Secretary of USDAW who said that they had had a er a er reasonable meeting with him . |
13 | Beauty therapy has moved on a pace . |
14 | The committee , chaired by the Leader of the Lords , Lord Wakeham , has decided on a package that includes relaxation of rules that prevent benefit claimants from taking further education courses which occupy more than 21 hours a week . |
15 | The committee , chaired by the Leader in the Lords , Lord Wakeham , has decided on a package that includes relaxation of rules that prevent benefit claimants from taking further education courses which occupy more than 21 hours a week . |
16 | An inquest has opened on a man and woman who were shot in the carpark of a D-I-Y store . |
17 | An inquest has opened on a man whose badly burnt body was found in a blazing barn . |
18 | An inquest has opened on a woman who was found in her submerged car in the River Severn . |
19 | An inquest has opened on a Honda car engineer killed at work . |
20 | An inquest has opened on a teenager killed in a car accident on her way to an illegal rave party . |
21 | In Zambia itself the ruling party , UNIP , took virtual control of the Times , but even before this the president had acquired the power to hire and fire its editor : a power he has used on a number of occasions . |
22 | A bomb has exploded on a train in London , there were no injuries . |
23 | Faced with a massive upsurge in poaching , Zimbabwe has embarked on a crash programme of de-horning its remaining black rhino population , in an effort to make the animals worthless to the poachers . |
24 | He has embarked on a drawing/painting course which seems to be about as full and hectic as yours , but then both your chosen activities are a mystery to me . |
25 | Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to join the airlines in smashing the pilots ' claim , seeing it as a crucial challenge to the cornerstone of his government 's economic policy , the wages accord between government , employers and unions . |
26 | Reporting the Lithuanian response , the official Soviet news agency Tass on March 19 announced that Gorbachev had ordered the Soviet government to implement " a number of immediate measures " in the light of information which " bears witness to the fact that the present leadership of the republic has embarked on a path of crude violations of constitutional order and of arbitrarily deciding matters which affect the interest of the USSR " . |
27 | The European Community [ EC ] has embarked on a path inexorably leading to the eventual replacement of member countries ' currencies with a single European currency . |
28 | Energy generation from renewable resources , such as wind or water , can help conserve fossil fuels and reduce emissions of pollutants ; the Trust has embarked on a number of schemes to exploit renewable energy , as at Aberdulais ( see below right ) , and will assess properties for their energy-generating potential . |
29 | America has embarked on a project for a vast Superconducting Super Collider , under construction south of Dallas ( see page 112 ) . |
30 | A former television presenter who hit the headlines amid claims he was the Son of God has embarked on a lecture tour to set the record straight . |