Example sentences of "on [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my mind , the answer to the question depends on ascertaining in the context of the Act as a whole what is the administration referred to . |
| 2 | Police authorities are required to obtain the views of the community on policing in the area . |
| 3 | Tighter regulation by Regional Health Authorities followed a much publicised role-playing exercise on contracting in the East Anglian Region known as the Rubber Windmill ( East Anglian RHA/Office for Public Management 1990 ) . |
| 4 | Anglo-Saxon battle based on drawing in the Canterbury Hexateuch . |
| 5 | The Daemonette attacks the nearest character immediately ; on appearing in the room , all characters must make a successful I test or be surprised , giving the Daemonette a free round of attacks . |
| 6 | A funeral , already described , two drunk tramps , another lecture from the Vicar on interfering in the domestic wrangles of his parishioners . |
| 7 | ‘ I will be issuing directions to judges on sentencing in the next few days . |
| 8 | This common bond can be based on living in the same area , or working in the same factory , or attending the same church , or being members of the same club . |
| 9 | Nearly a third have introduced restrictions , or further restrictions , on smoking in the past 12 months . |
| 10 | A questionnaire on smoking in the Library is under preparation by a working group of the Health and Safety Committee — and they will shortly be seeking the views of staff on what could turn out to be a contentious issue . |
| 11 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 12 | Rarely , if ever , in more than a decade , has a specialist in psychometrics published a review of a book on testing in the Times , The New York Review of Books , The New Republic , or other national publications that occasionally comment on testing . |
| 13 | Although Paul usually forgot his dreams on waking in the morning , he began to remember his dreams and started to keep a diary of what he had dreamt . |
| 14 | He thought she had shown moderate suicidal intent in taking the overdose , particularly because she took it at night when unlikely to be discovered and repeated the act on waking in the morning . |
| 15 | When the chairman seemed intent on remaining in the post , White House Chief of Staff Samuel Skinner fired him . |
| 16 | Or would have been had Gemma not insisted on remaining in the very centre of so much decay and corruption and " horridness ' , in Frizingley . |
| 17 | These are all provided in a manageable package , leaving the teachers free to concentrate on teaching in the classroom , identifying needs , and directing self-study activities . |
| 18 | Plans for an historic ban on mining in the Antarctic were shattered by the US refusing to sign the treaty at the last moment . |
| 19 | By using an accurate new index ( the Newcastle prescribing index ) to adjust for the effect of patient sex and age on prescribing in the North East we have shown that a practice age and sex demography does not explain interpractice variation in prescribing habits . |
| 20 | Michelin is axing 16,000 jobs and has spent £460m on restructuring in the last two years . |
| 21 | Major 's future is also in doubt — he had staked his reputation on staying in the ERM and not devaluing . |
| 22 | He insisted on staying in the class with me and the others . |
| 23 | She should have refused to go with him last night and insisted on staying in the car park . |
| 24 | It is designed for the International Manager , and , throughout , focuses on learning in the workplace . |
| 25 | Since the share trades are ‘ in-house ’ , the commission charges on dealing in the shares are notional . |
| 26 | She left the track without a backward look , intent on hiding in the hotel suite until Ace returned to rescue her . |
| 27 | His senses were fading as his whole existence concentrated on taking in the next breath . |
| 28 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 29 | Lest there be any doubts about this , consider the Maastricht Declaration on Voting in the Field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy : ‘ The Conference agrees that , with regard to Council decisions requiring unanimity , Member States will , to the extent possible , avoid preventing a unanimous decision where a qualified majority exists in favour of that decision . ’ |
| 30 | In 324 on arriving in the East he felt sure that soon he would go to the Holy Land to see the sacred sites and to be baptized in Jordan . |