Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 2 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 3 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 4 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 5 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 6 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 7 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 8 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 9 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 11 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 12 | With inflation the cost of stocking a small farm , quite apart from the value of the land itself , is so high that the tax imposition will make it virtually impossible for a farmer to pass on a flourishing farm to his son . |
| 13 | It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich . |
| 14 | This is the second time you 've failed to pass on a vital message . |
| 15 | The new aqueduct was necessary to allow ships to pass on the new Manchester Ship Canal . |
| 16 | Finally , the whole of the Gospel leads to the commission of the Church , to go out and baptise , to teach , and to pass on the new law of Christianity ( Matt. |
| 17 | As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out . |
| 18 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 19 | If one person in a twin room cancels , we reserve the right to pass on the full cost of the twin room to the person using that room . |
| 20 | The postmodern obsession with ‘ surfaces ’ could also link to the more general and growing indeterminacy of the middle classes who need to put on a Goffman-like front in order to impose their ‘ nominative powers ’ . |
| 21 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 22 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 23 | It is difficult to believe that a desire to put on a good show at an exhibition could shape a major research programme . |
| 24 | Pubs could become for her extensions of the office , places to put on a good show for the Yard , swilling pints of bitter with the lads to enhance her image . |
| 25 | Paul said : ‘ We have been training throughout the winter and are hoping to put on a good show for Scotland . |
| 26 | Sports officer Ian Gardiner said : ‘ We will be submitting a bid for funds to put on a new series of Champion Coaching based on the popularity of the last course . |
| 27 | Six Local Art Societies , Art Gallery in the Town Centre , Queensway , Billingham ( until March 14 ) IT seems to me that the ink was barely dry on my last little piece which suggested that Darlington Society of Arts seemed content to restrict itself to one exhibition per year when , all of a sudden , came news that Darlington , the CAS and Hartlepool Art Club were to join forces respectively the Hambleton , Leven and Yarm art societies to put on a joint show of their work at Billingham . |
| 28 | We put this to you as an answer to all slimmers who say they only need to look at a single cake or bar of chocolate to put on a substantial amount of fat . |
| 29 | Remember that you have asked students to put on a public performance . |
| 30 | The obvious solution was for the ELR to put on a daily goods train to service the site from both Bury Buckley Wells yard and a temporary sand and gravel dump established at Ewood Bridge . |