Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | To demonstrate that , he is happy to show off work on new City dealer boards devised in Belfast that allow a foreign exchange trader or the like to listen in to some 20 phone conversations at once via a sophisticated touch screen . |
2 | The Government is promising to review the laws that have enabled tens of thousands of new age hippies to set up camp on common land . |
3 | He was down in the Queen Victoria Hotel for two hours , plucking up courage on Double Diamond . " |
4 | It believes it can quickly make up ground on other Unix suppliers . |
5 | Hook up neckband on first row , push behind latches and remove waste and nylon cord . |
6 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
7 | David and Greg were still at the front of the plane , so , beckoning to the white-haired man , she said , ‘ Would you please come here and keep up pressure on this man 's leg ? |
8 | In the Centre , staff from Syntex and the Faculty of Medicine evaluate cardiovascular drugs and carry out research on circulatory physiology and pharmacology . |
9 | One of the difficulties of carrying out research on this topic is the need to follow through cases from arrest onwards , as studies of what happens at one stage in the process may be misleading . |
10 | Ann and I even managed to find a boat and ventured out fishing on Dunalister Reservoir , a shallow , flooded loch between Rannoch and Tummel , formed when the waters of Rannoch were impounded as part of the Pitlochry Hydro Electric Scheme . |
11 | Craft workers are likely to be in increased demand , at least over the next several years , to carry out maintenance on advanced equipment such as CNC machine tools and robots , though craft work is likely to change its context . |
12 | More recently , however Crowner and Hull ( 1991 ) have carried out work on this application . |
13 | During the 1890s they carried out work on inductive telegraphy , which was particularly important for communication with lighthouses and lightships , and Preece was one of the members of the royal commission on electrical communication with lighthouses and light vessels . |
14 | EC rules out inquiry on high price of compact discs |
15 | Everyone in the company is delighted with our recent success across the country , which goes to show that out emphasis on total quality is paying rich dividends . |
16 | Suppose , next , that a catastrophe , which will wipe out life on this planet , threatens , and can only be prevented by an expenditure the same as would be needed for that capsule for the slug . |
17 | Check out Shymer on this month 's Megatape — you never know , you might actually LIKE it ! |
18 | With letters still coming in , AI will be sending out information on other street children 's cases in Guatemala — many of Nahamán 's friends who witnessed the attack have been subjected to harassment from the police . |
19 | They abolished 50 existing laws and 36 agencies involved in regulating foreign trade , to ( i ) lift all quotas on imports and exports ; ( ii ) end trade controls except those protecting health care , urban planning , competition policy and environmental protection ; ( iii ) phase out regulation on domestic production and prices ; ( iv ) allow employers to negotiate wages at company level rather than with national unions ; ( v ) abolish regulations covering labour contracts and business hours ; ( vi ) prevent professional bodies fixing fees nationally ; and ( vii ) phase out the controls of State Boards to regulate production and sale of such key products as beef , wine , sugar , cotton and tobacco . |