Example sentences of "and [vb infin] on the " in BNC.

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1 After completing the AEC , participants were interviewed to provide them with an opportunity to reflect and comment on the course .
2 However , it recommends that the auditor should have a duty to report direct to the regulator and should be required to examine and comment on the effectiveness of the internal controls the trustees have established .
3 Similarly teams of medical advisers were brought down to William Osborne to inspect and comment on the level and location of medical equipment so that as the boat was built the right equipment was installed in the right place .
4 As early as the 1880s , it was found that the Commons could not adequately examine and comment on the estimates .
5 Draft plans are now available for those who would like to read and comment on the proposal .
6 After delivery , each workshop was evaluated by group discussion and individual questionnaires ; in addition , a number of experienced staff development personnel were asked to read and comment on the tutor 's materials .
7 They will also maintain and build on the PathWorks program and develop new services for Mac clients .
8 Experimentation and development go on all the time as the company searches for new ways to capture and build on the knowledge already accumulated by its workers .
9 The general purpose and scheme of the statutory superstructure is to strengthen and build on the continuing contractual foundation for the greater benefit of all affected — the company , the contributories , the creditors , both secured and unsecured , and the preferential creditors , as well as the public generally .
10 To recall and build on the earlier analysis , these rules have to do with truth-telling , sincerity , intelligibility , empathy and active listening .
11 The legislative plans that I have announced today are designed to consolidate and build on the improvement in industrial relations which we have achieved over the last 12 years .
12 After a court ruling that this was unlawful , Haringey rang round other councils to see if they could borrow and lend on the money to tide it over .
13 To convert this into a form which will allow us to express this in the correct site fraction form we can add and subtract on the r.h.s. of equation ( 8.19 ) to give
14 In fact he had lost his nerve and was too shy to go up and knock on the door .
15 But I say sometimes when I was i like that I wished somebody would come round and knock on the door , perhaps
16 Yes , I do n't like to go down and knock on the door really .
17 Shall I go and knock on the door and ask ?
18 Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved
19 on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day .
20 and it 's , and then you can book up and go and eat on the verandah or you can eat in one of the restaurants and just walk round and sit on the , any of the seats .
21 The vapour might condense and fall on the slopes as a new sort of lubricant snow .
22 She will lecture and demonstrate on the preparations and finishing techniques which will ensure that your garments have a professional finished appearance .
23 Yet we can pick out and concentrate on the voice of a newcomer , or any other event which interests us , while our brain reduces the rest to a background noise .
24 They represent an attempt to retain autonomy through prior expression of will , after the ability to choose and act on the choice has gone .
25 But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here .
26 What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole .
27 " [ Mrs Kit Nash ] , year by year , extended the boundaries of her plot by trimming the bramble hedges always from the inside , allowing them to spread and flourish on the outside …
28 And he would sit and wait on the other side for someone to come and pick him up when he was coming home . ’
29 Clubs like ours have to try and survive on the crumbs washed from bread tossed in by the business world , to feed the mallards of the Football League . ’
30 Well , I reckon that 's a bit of a cheek , really , if you prefer to affirm and swear on the bible , I do n't see why they should challenge why you want to do one or the other .
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