Example sentences of "to [noun sg] on the " in BNC.

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1 We are committed to building on the lead we have and increasing chemical and process engineering resources to drive the various projects associated with fluidics . ’
2 In partnership with the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , we look forward to building on the success of the first year 's issues and to the increasing use of the magazine as a means of effective two-way communications .
3 An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work .
4 An end to unity on the left , and thereby of its political dominance , was in sight .
5 Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa .
6 Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ?
7 Queen , or whether it was permissible for a court to sentence on the basis of the offender 's previous record , for which , as Ashworth ( 1990 ) has pointed out , there is also Court of Appeal authority .
8 On the second of July of this year , the Home Secretary made a statement to Parliament on the subject of asylum .
9 While the Language in Use team wish to order priorities differently and the Humanities Project 's teachers wish to rearrange literature to illustrate relevant social issues , there is an extreme form of resistance to literature on the grounds that it is part of the ‘ syllabus of established middle-class culture ’ .
10 These relationships have allowed Chorus to piggyback on the expertise of its partners netting Chorus an SVR4 base in the case of Unisys and now fault tolerance from Tandem .
11 On 15 November 1988 he issued a writ claiming that his disabilities are attributable to negligence on the part of the medical staff who attended his mother 's confinement and his birth .
12 This covers the Policyholder 's legal liability to domestic employees e.g. if a cleaner employed by the Policyholder , is injured in the Policyholder 's home , due to negligence on the part of the Policyholder , or a fault in the premises or property supplied by the Insured , there would be cover under this section of the policy .
13 The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer .
14 The federal Appeals Court in San Francisco had dismissed the case prior to trial on the grounds that even if Malcolm had manufactured the quotes , they remained legitimate because they amounted to a " rational interpretation " of what Masson had said .
15 To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience .
16 Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run .
17 Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value .
18 A good deal of this position can be attributed to discrimination on the part of employers .
19 They reached The Carlops that first evening , to camp on the moorland to the east , although Douglas would have pressed on further .
20 Disappointed , we retraced our footprints and were obliged to camp on the same patch of ice as the night before .
21 And the landowner , who fought a High Court battle to allow gipsies to camp on the site , says new laws would mean a return to the bad old days .
22 She joined a refugee convoy travelling 200 miles to Split on the Adriatic coast .
23 MIP-1 β is produced in large amounts by monocytes , fibroblasts and lymphocytes early after activation in vitro ; in vivo , it might bind to proteoglycan on the endothelial surface at inflammatory sites and be presented as an adhesion-inducing stimulus to passing leukocytes .
24 In the general election campaign Carter continued to harp on the need to clear up the ‘ mess ’ in Washington , constantly re-echoing the theme of his acceptance speech : ‘ We want to have faith again !
25 In particular , he began to harp on the conservative themes that would provide the centrepiece of his campaigns for the governorship of California and which he would eventually carry with him into the White House .
26 Military technology changes dramatically in wartime , in response to experience on the battlefield .
27 Bill Gates , in London yesterday addressing sundry gatherings , notably the Institute of Directors annual convention , said he dispatched 50 messages back to base on the flight over ; asked if his impending nuptials would adversely affect Microsoft Corp , he said ‘ it takes a lot of time being single : I think being married will be very efficient . ’
28 Last year he scored 259 to make sure of the 1991 County championship , and plodded off unemotionally : though he did concede to emotion on the balcony when the victory was eventually sealed .
29 Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy .
30 Senior members marked the competitors ' cards and the caddies were allowed to practice on the course beforehand !
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