Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 2 | I said to Bet I said they ought to write out a cheque on the end . |
| 3 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 5 | This description , if accurate , would appear to reflect more a desire on Nizan 's part to reassure his friends than a genuine assessment of current diplomatic realities . |
| 6 | The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work . |
| 7 | Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information . |
| 8 | Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars . |
| 10 | Under this Resolution , it was agreed to set up a Committee on Cultural Affairs , and that the Commission should implement actions decided on by the Council that were to be implemented at Community level . |
| 11 | Everyone wished to be buried there , or at least to set up a cenotaph on hallowed ground . |
| 12 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 13 | Independently , or in conjunction with BAIE or IPR or others , I hope to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications , and wonder whether the PCC could be persuaded to be represented ? |
| 14 | I am trying to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications ( which may also touch on more general issues of ethics and management ) — do you have any relevant texts of which you might send me a complimentary copy and to which reference could be made in the publicity for what should prove a stimulating event ! |
| 15 | Figure 9 shows how to set up a tripod on a slope . |
| 16 | This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis . |
| 17 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 18 | The Law Societies ' of England and Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have funded a team of researchers led by lecturer Dr Julian Lonbay , to draw up a report on the professional qualifications and training of lawyers , in order to help them determine how to implement the EEC Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration , which comes into force on 4 January 1991 . |
| 19 | For his part , Corbett could only fret and decided to draw up a memorandum on what he had learnt so far : |
| 20 | To give out a lecture on fighting and . |
| 21 | Such a structure is particularly likely to form where a promontory on the advancing edge of the continent on the subducting plate collides with the opposing continent well before the rest of the continental margin ( Fig. 3.20(E) , ( F ) ) . |
| 22 | Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work . |
| 23 | One of the machine tenders used a piece of wood to knock down a catch on a door in the base of the copper sheathing around the bottom of the barrel . |
| 24 | This is to enable us to continue to build up a database on the application of our provision in response to special needs . |
| 25 | The age of the children , their number , the ability of the wife to earn a second income at home , whilst the elder children helped run the boat , the responsibility for dependent relatives , the possibility of sharing a house : such factors governed the decision to keep up a home on the land . |
| 26 | For the last , steepest section we all had to climb up a couloir on foot . |
| 27 | Thus if the plan is to send out a release on a new range of products the most useful sections can be immediately picked out of the list . |
| 28 | In a sense it is almost impossible to separate out a section on documents which can be called ‘ historical ’ since all documents are by nature historical . |
| 29 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 30 | The crisis has also forced Chancellor Norman Lamont to cut short his holiday as the Bank of England tries to stave off a run on the Pound . |