Example sentences of "on [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Incubation with higher concentrations of the drugs revealed a dose-response effect on binding with complete inhibition by 100 mM 4ASA and 10 mM olsalazine , and lesser degrees of inhibition by 100 mM 5ASA , N-acetyl-5ASA , and N-acetyl-4ASA .
2 They pride themselves on sticking to traditional brewing methods .
3 Income as of right has been replaced by income conditional on qualifying for means-tested support .
4 The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft .
5 Can you tell me why , on returning to normal drive after 4WD , I experience severe jumping in the steering action for a brief time before everything returns to normal .
6 In the case of the YCCC , the video workshop so inspired two of the members ( a husband and wife ) , that on returning to Yellow Creek they went out and bought a video which they have since used with great effect in their campaign .
7 They make no attempt to explore the cause of those tears , concentrating instead on living without muscular tension .
8 By 1955 he had founded , on an estate at Botton in Yorkshire , the first of many Camphill village communities , with emphasis again on the importance of the individual , on living with total dignity in ‘ family ’ households , on the provision of workshops for the making of marketable goods , and on cultural , artistic , and spiritual activities in generous measure .
9 Decisions on the propriety of stocking a particular publication must depend very much on his or her own judgment and good sense , rather than on waiting for legal counsel .
10 One of the traps adults fall into in learning a second language is that of embarking on speaking without adequate listening .
11 Consultants and general practitioners need clearer explanations that a resource can be used only once , and higher expenditure on prescribing in primary care means loss of development money for the NHS .
12 Parental responsibility appears here in the form of a duty to ensure that the child is examined ; there is an offence on failing without reasonable cause to comply with requirements of a notice requiting the child to be examined at a stipulated place and time .
13 Precisely when these four additional kadiliks — or five , including Mecca — became mevleviyets is not clear in every case , though it is certain in one case , and entirely possible in the others , that they were not made mevleviyets immediately on coming into Ottoman possession .
14 Apart from nostalgia for her troupe of Tamworths , this is partly out of gratitude for the plasticised pig valve in her mother 's heart — ‘ so pigs came to the fore again ’ — and partly her horrified response on reading about European factory farms in Peter Singer 's seminal book Animal Liberation .
15 A number of executive members agreed that the newly formed Coalition for Scottish Democracy would take the lead on campaigning for constitutional change and be the main co-ordinator of future events .
16 What follows is general advice applicable to either group on finding information about job and training opportunities , and on responding to local recruitment drives .
17 Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday .
18 Fritz H Schröder 's editorial on screening for prostatic cancer makes the point that the specificity and positive predictive value are too low for any of the available screening tests to be recommended .
19 The Czechoslovak federal government on June 27 submitted to the Federal Assembly a bill on screening for past collaboration with the Statni Bezpecnost ( StB — State Security ) , the secret police under the previous communist regime .
20 In June 1991 the government submitted a bill on screening for past collaboration with the StB [ see pp. 38018 ; 38107 ; 38304 ] .
21 Editor , — We wish to focus on two issues raised by the editorial on screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy .
22 This showed 46 episodes ( 2.7 ( 0.6 ) per patient ) , of which 41 were mild , on transferring to human insulin versus 29 episodes ( 1.7 ( 0.6 ) ) , of which 26 were mild , on transferring to porcine insulin ( -0.1 to 2 ; p=0.08 ) .
23 This showed 46 episodes ( 2.7 ( 0.6 ) per patient ) , of which 41 were mild , on transferring to human insulin versus 29 episodes ( 1.7 ( 0.6 ) ) , of which 26 were mild , on transferring to porcine insulin ( -0.1 to 2 ; p=0.08 ) .
24 ONE OF the Department of Industry 's top scientists is leaving to advise Barclays Bank on investing in new technology .
25 In 1977 the Council arranged the conference on Planning for Academic Diversification in Higher Education , a meeting to discuss the need for and design of undergraduate courses in transport studies , a seminar to discuss the problems of including art and design in courses which contained other subjects , and a conference on mathematical education — including particularly mathematics and computer studies at the postgraduate level .
26 This trend culminated in the overwhelming vote of members of the RICS at an Extraordinary General Meeting in July 1986 in favour of the removal of nearly all the restrictions on practising with limited liability , whether as a public company with outside investment or as a private company still owned by chartered surveyor shareholders .
27 On the question of risk , the attraction of the various legal forms is in part predicated upon the attitude of the RICS to relief from the restrictions on practising with limited liability .
28 A UDC was to be created — the LDDC — that was to concentrate on attracting in Private-sector investment , partly by attempting to overcome what were seen as major obstacles to regeneration : poor communications and infrastructure , a deteriorating physical environment , problems with land assembly and the area 's Poor image .
29 Throughout the 1920s the Communist Party leaders remained intent on affiliating to the Labour Party and on working with Labour Party members .
30 And how did you get on working with Iggy Pop ?
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