Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 2 | 2–11–1911 As " it was impossible for the congregation to meet on the Sabbath the 5th day of November owing to the stormy weather prevailing that day " they resolved to dispense the Lord 's Supper on the next Sabbath . |
| 3 | I want you to concentrate on the way the rooms themselves bring about certain kinds of behaviour . |
| 4 | The point of a general damnatio was to impose on the heir a general obligation to pay the legacies left . |
| 5 | The draftsman should , therefore , consider whether to impose on the tenant a limit to the number of persons who may be employed in the demised property in order to avoid overloading the available facilities . |
| 6 | Another variation is to impose on the seller the obligation to accept all orders placed in accordance with the buyer 's forecast , even though that forecast is not binding on the buyer . |
| 7 | We tried very hard to underline the importance of these paintings , so that if they were ever to come on the market the government would be conditioned to their importance . |
| 8 | Martha had been attracted to Bob Lamb since the shepherd first came to work on the farm the previous November . |
| 9 | We have always said that the proper way to do it is to have the service areas there and ready to open on the day the motorway itself is opened to traffic . |
| 10 | Even without the element of uncertainty , however , potential plaintiffs may be reluctant to inflict on the company the disruption that an action against a director can involve , or expose it to the unfavourable publicity that might result from airing its difficulties in public . |
| 11 | ‘ It may of course be perfectly proper for the court to put on the Act an interpretation different from that intended by the framers of it . |
| 12 | But it may be reasonable to put on the Purchaser the onus of investigating the contracts — thereby reducing the need for Warranty 6.3 . |
| 13 | I wish to put on the record a different view of the proposed new airport in Hong Kong ( April 13th ) . |
| 14 | It is important also to put on the record the serious growth of racism and neo-Nazi activity throughout much of western Europe and what was formerly termed eastern Europe . |
| 15 | The second is never to leave on the floor a closed loop of wire or string . |
| 16 | I 'd like to sleep on the train every night . ’ |
| 17 | His dream was to build on the site a building by the Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe , which would also create a New York-style plaza , to be known as Mansion House Square . |
| 18 | A stream of trade complaints is ready to burst on the administration the day the round ends . |
| 19 | If the ball is left short it is virtually impossible to save par as the approach shot will almost certainly spin back off the green , leaving the player with a chip shot which will be equally as difficult to keep on the green the other side . |
| 20 | Liartes brought his mount in to land on the turf a few yards away and dismounted casually . |
| 21 | British Rail is now a large residential landowner in Warwick gardens and will wish to offload on the market the expensively obtained properties that it has acquired . |
| 22 | The prosecution was in a bit of a quandary ; the main witness , the teenage post-boy , had been inconsiderate enough to die on the day the trial began . |
| 23 | When the main Congress business began on March 29 Yeltsin 's hardline communist opponents twice defeated motions to place on the agenda the creation of an executive presidency for the Russian Federation . |
| 24 | The best insurance is to have on a window a sticker of the Shahs great enemy , the turbulent , intransigent priest , Ayatollah Khomeini or , even better , to play one of the tapes on which , from his exile near paris , he exhorts the Shahs overthrow . |
| 25 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 26 | I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the question of adult education in Croydon , and to see you , Mr. Speaker , in the Chair , because you and I are privileged to represent constituencies in Croydon . |
| 27 | I welcome very much the opportunity to raise on the Adjournment the question of the working of the police national computer mark 2 and the need for effective safeguards , and I am delighted that this debate is starting at a relatively civilised hour . |
| 28 | Thanks to the war with yourselves ( the British ) democracy returned with Alfonsín and I was able to return on a visit a year ago . |
| 29 | What local ‘ MPs and candidates had to say on the day the election date was named : |
| 30 | Thus , whereas in a face-to-face meeting I can say I 'm Joe Bloggs , on the telephone I must say This is Joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs is speaking with third person verb agreement ( but see Schegloff , 1979a ) ; in contrast in Tamil we would have to say on the telephone the equivalent of Joe Bloggs am speaking , with first person verb agreement . |