Example sentences of "[vb infin] on the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Czechoslovak Prime Minister Marian Calfa declared on Feb. 5 that work would recommence on the basis of the so-called " C " scheme , which envisaged the diversion of Danube waters . |
| 2 | The surroundings include all other objects which might act on the system under investigation . |
| 3 | A trader should never act on the presumption of retrieving his circumstances when he had become flagrantly insolvent . |
| 4 | Did Marsilid act on the enzyme in the brain and protect a transmitter amine from premature destruction ? |
| 5 | But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here . |
| 6 | The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices . |
| 7 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 8 | In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament . |
| 9 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 10 | He can waffle on about OPEC ad infinitum , and most clients wo n't know what the hell he 's talking about , but they 'll pretend to agree with him and will buy on the strength of what he says . |
| 11 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 12 | At least they bloody started it and they just did n't fucking jump on the bandwagon like everybody else . |
| 13 | Would you sa you know on the basis of erm your contact with , with tenants erm in terms of living in flats , are , are there any good points that people have made about living there t I mean |
| 14 | The initial reaction had been an assumption that shares would fall on the back of the changes in Advanced Corporation Tax and tax credits on dividends which , to put it simplistically , will suck £1 billion out of Britain 's pension funds , the largest providers of equity for industry . |
| 15 | That Flaubert , still damp from skewering boys in Cairo bath-houses , should fall on the name of Nabokov 's seducer of underage American girlhood ? |
| 16 | The CEGB 's case is likely to stand or fall on the economics of the project . |
| 17 | It started with the assumption that 100,000 bombs would fall on the capital within fourteen days of the declaration of war . |
| 18 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 19 | The black man let his hand fall on the bolt of cotton . |
| 20 | — Ecclesiastes ; ‘ Doth the eagle mount up at the command / And make her nest on high … ’ — Job ; ‘ Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father . ’ |
| 21 | The lamp rests on the manuscript so that enough light will fall on the corner of the sofa in which the man sits in the evening to read his paper . |
| 22 | The Daily Telegraph computer program compares each poll 's current findings with the 1987 election results , and calculates how many seats each party would win on the basis of a uniform national swing applied equally to every constituency ( leaving out those in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 23 | A harem travelling with others is not only less likely to be the one attacked but , at least at the onset of the bachelors ' approach , the male can count on the participation of other harem males in ‘ yelping chases ’ that deter the attackers . |
| 24 | There was no evidence yet that Isabella enjoyed widespread support in England , and Edward no doubt felt he could count on the loyalty of the nobles to whom he committed responsibility for the defence of the south coast . |
| 25 | Tessa money in building societies is guaranteed a higher level of protection : investors can count on the return of 90% of their first £20,000 if the society goes broke . |
| 26 | He hoped thus both to strengthen his hand in the cabinet , several of whose members were by no means convinced supporters of his policies , and to counteract the influence at court of the hostile Austrian and Russian ambassadors , who could usually count on the sympathy of George IV . |
| 27 | ‘ In its struggle the current government of Serbia can count on the support of mighty Russia . ’ |
| 28 | CAN I count on the support of my friends and family ? |
| 29 | Mr Ciampi can count on the support of the other members of Mr Amato 's coalition and the Republicans , Greens , and , presumably , the PDS ( though there were rumblings of revolt from the left of the party when its leader , Achille Occhetto , gave his support ) . |
| 30 | After the October 1979 coup , Archbishop Romero declared that the new regime lacked any popular backing and could only count on the support of a " few foreign powers " . |