Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why should the onus be on me to make this request ? |
| 2 | There will be no pressure on them to publish these results , however . |
| 3 | So if America and Britain have any objection to the way Libya is handling the Lockerbie allegations , then it is incumbent on them to demand international arbitration . |
| 4 | The numbers of units of publishable information are likely to continue to increase , however , due to the increased numbers of scientists , and the pressure on them to produce measurable output . |
| 5 | And as the skiing season approaches , you can rely on them to supply first-class winter warmers . |
| 6 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 7 | If we like them enough to invest , we will either cut our spending ( bad for the high street and the recovery ) or switch savings from other institutions ( notably the building societies ) putting pressure on them to match those terms . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't take it on you to use that tone to your mother ! |
| 9 | So in fact there 's still an endowment policy on you to cover that mortgage ? |
| 10 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 11 | Had he produced a no-hoper , the pressure on her to quit this summer would have started growing on Tuesday evening . |
| 12 | However , a delegation from Japan 's ruling Liberal Democratic Party handed him a message from Mr Kiichi Miyazawa , Japanese Prime Minister , calling on him to allay international concern that North Korea 's nuclear programme is weapons-oriented . |
| 13 | Gates refused to tender his resignation on the grounds that his 8,300 members were depending on him to provide strong leadership in a difficult situation ( The Guardian , 4 April 1991 ) . |
| 14 | Having provided for the acquisition of an outgoing partner 's share , the partners must determine what restrictions should be put on him to prevent any action of his eroding the value of that share . |
| 15 | It will be seen that where Lautro is advised to serve or is considering the service of an intervention notice on a member , the rules do not place any obligation on it to give that member any advance warning of the intended action , nor to give him any opportunity to make representations before the intervention notice is served . |
| 16 | It was a number of weeks ago I had cause to sit on it to do some paperwork ; I then found out I was to be a father again . |
| 17 | For example , desperate politicians tend to fall back on it to appease working class voters in the United States and the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | The proposed legislation relies on it to find technical solutions that are cost effective while permitting the development of its technology . ’ |
| 19 | We entirely repudiated a personal liability on us to obey general rules . |
| 20 | Erm , when an application is received for building approval by a District Council , they consult the Fire Authority but there 's no specific obligation on us to give detailed advice . |
| 21 | It is encouraging that these countries wish to follow our example but it also places a heavy obligation on us to offer this assistance . |
| 22 | Yet we live in a society in which there are very great pressures on us to keep those subjects in watertight compartments . |