Example sentences of "in [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he has used it to swell his bank balance , it will be presumed that , in drawing on that balance , he has drawn out his own money before touching trust money ; if he has made an investment with trust money — even an investment which is itself a breach of trust — that investment is still trust property , to which the trustees ’ creditors have no claim . |
| 2 | I 've just had a phone call in I 've just erm had a phone call from a conference company and she and part of her research the woman in came on one of my courses to just see what the background and what we were doing . |
| 3 | The book trade should have an interest in passing on that message . |
| 4 | In some chapters of this book we have indeed thought of the individual organism as an agent , striving to maximize its success in passing on all its genes . |
| 5 | Just in , just in passing on this committee I 'm assured will be concerned of the apparent difficulties between er the Highways er and the organization of Suffolk and that in Norfolk , erm and we shall be I think er wishing to look at that er to see what 's going astray and something appears to me to be not quite right in the relationship and er , erm I think it 's important that er adjoining Highway Authorities do in fact get on |
| 6 | If hypocrisy formally resembles irony in operating on two levels in its systematic inversion of the truth , Iago here uses an old form of irony , the mock-apologia , which is really an attack . |
| 7 | Neurophysiology requires a set of skills — notably , apart from a dexterity in operating on small animals , a reasonable grasp of electronics — that are beyond the range of mere biochemists like me . |
| 8 | I 've already put in our comments in writing on this to Chris and I 'll just sort of draw some of them save me repeating them . |
| 9 | In deliberating on this important issue the Committee recognised the importance of ensuring that all staff in the Exchequer Division should be clearly informed of the present position . |
| 10 | It is based on the minister 's assertion that there was no delay by the manufacturers , Dista Products Ltd. in giving the Committee on Safety of Medicines ( CSM ) information about accumulation of the drug in the elderly ; nor by CSM in acting on this and on its own reports of adverse reactions . |
| 11 | The repeated frustration of his attempts to introduce changes led to an impassioned plea in the Sunday Express for more freedom of action at club level : ‘ I appeal to the authorities to release the brake which they seem to delight in jamming on new ideas … as if wisdom is only to be found in the council chamber … |
| 12 | So if anyone 's interested in going on that , get in touch with me or Dave , we 'll erm , say we do n't need to many but I think we can take a few and we will take our petition with us on that one , the animal petition . |
| 13 | I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places . |
| 14 | This system will be used in deciding on future allocations of the pool and the DES has already indicated that it would expect NAB to give advice about appropriate courses and rationalization , particularly concerning those which are expensive , those which are so specialist in nature that control of student numbers is required , and those where both university and public sector provision might be unnecessary or where rationalization is desirable for other reasons . |
| 15 | e ) the practical difficulties in deciding on professional grounds which clients are subject to restrictions when claiming on the fund ; |
| 16 | To use these models , and the underlying research in commenting on economic developments , and in the analysis of policy options at home and abroad . |
| 17 | There did n't seem much point in commenting on any of this . |
| 18 | It is a model of detail and clarity in reporting on private residential and nursing homes . |
| 19 | Some useful intelligence was provided by a renegade Scot , Robert Hamilton , a former lieutenant in the Royal Navy , who became a captain in the French fleet and was employed in reporting on likely landing places . |
| 20 | In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism . |
| 21 | As a first step to restoring peace the UNP on Sept. 27 joined five opposition parties in calling on all armed groups to stop engaging in violence . |
| 22 | But before this both centres produced very similar ranges of designs and there are considerable difficulties in distinguishing on stylistic grounds alone between late Malaga and early Valencia lustre pottery . |
| 23 | In focusing on concrete outcomes of social activity , and explaining them through natural causal models , geographers have disguised the social origins of these outcomes and the political assumptions and implications of their theories . |
| 24 | BP Nutrition 's replacement cost operating profit of £xx million was up by £39 million compared with 1991 , thanks to the measures it had put in place to improve performance and its progress in focusing on key activities . |
| 25 | The co-ordinator of Greenpeace 's Great Lakes project also claimed that , in focusing on 17 named chemicals , the programme was ignoring thousands of others which pour into the Lakes . |
| 26 | In focusing on that sphere of life which provides the greatest potential for the expression of individual autonomy , urban sociology is uniquely equipped to chart a path out of the ‘ iron cage ’ which Weber believed was encompassing the whole of modern society . |
| 27 | In focusing on different and only partly overlapping areas for research in code switching , researchers differentiate themselves as sharply by their methodology as by their interests . |
| 28 | And in focusing on some problem areas it 's possible to fail to give an impression of the enormous privilege it is to serve the church and her lord in social responsibility . |
| 29 | River Phoenix continues to be a miracle , having earned his Oscar nomination in Running on Empty . |
| 30 | Figure 4.1 shows the growth in spending on private acute care in cash and real terms ( after allowing for general price inflation ) between 1972 and 1989 . |