Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each hour we use on the project we could say we lose £5 contribution . |
| 2 | The relevant facts are stated in the judgment of the court ( Cockburn C.J. , Wightman and Blackburn JJ. ) , delivered by BLACKBURN J. : In this case it appeared on the trial that the defendant was agent for a Mrs. Bennett , who was non-resident owner of houses in a district subject to a local Act . |
| 3 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 4 | In support of this submission he relied on the recent decision of the House of Lords in Reg. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners , Ex parte T. C. Coombs & Co. [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 283 , 302F where the House of Lords held , in the words of Lord Lowry who gave the leading judgment in which the other Lords of Appeal concurred , that |
| 5 | In this chapter we concentrate on the problem of integrating geographical data reported for different areal spatial units , one of the most intractable of all data integration problems . |
| 6 | Fielding 's Joseph Andrews is another work which focuses on the hardships of the servant 's life , albeit with less moral ardour than Richardson 's novel . |
| 7 | This month we focus on the work of the British Carpet Manufacturers ' Association ( BCMA ) , which has some useful advice for d-i-y fitters . |
| 8 | That is a throw-back to my days as a junior reporter when I used to play with another junior who worked on the rival weekly , the North Devon Journal Herald His name was David Vine , later to become the BBC 's commentator on snooker and winter sports . |
| 9 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 10 | This year we focus on the role of the Church in the renewal of society . |
| 11 | Finally this year we report on the statement of Christian faith . |
| 12 | Before , she had always jumped up excitedly , but this time she stayed on the settee . |
| 13 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 14 | Unit stock control ( where each item is individually counted ) is a method used by retailers to calculate how much stock they have on the premises , including the warehouse or store-room . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ Customers will have to make a choice about how much water they spray on the grass . ’ |
| 16 | That evening we sat on the train bound for Paris . |
| 17 | That night I slept on the subway , curled up on one of the seats . |
| 18 | ‘ and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence ’ |
| 19 | The longer you survived after giving assets to someone the less tax they paid on the gift . |
| 20 | And he established the principle that any decision which drew on the contingency reserve of public money should go to full Cabinet and not be taken in Cabinet committee , where the Chancellor and the Chief Secretary could all too easily fall prey to ambushes set by cabals of spending ministers . |
| 21 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 22 | In the villages the amounts given as a dowry vary from area to area and community to community , but within any community they depend on the status of the bridegroom and his family . |
| 23 | This makes it clear that certification , like a share certificate , is not a representation that the transferor has title to the shares but is a representation that certificates have been produced to the company showing a prima facie title and that the company will be liable to compensate any person who acts on the faith of it , provided that it was issued by someone authorised by the company to issue certified transfer and was signed by someone authorised to sign . |
| 24 | Today police released a photograph of Carol wearing the same jacket she had on the night she dissapeared . |
| 25 | So you can really integrate any information which resides on the mainframe . |
| 26 | There was a hard edge of arrogance to Jane Pargeter — the same self-confidence she displayed on the screen . |
| 27 | you know that teapot we have on the Welsh dresser like a cockerel ? |
| 28 | George had been tried out in a variety of parts , but each time he stepped on the stage he would stand with his legs and arms splayed out and drone monotonously . |
| 29 | Each time he drew on the mouthpiece , setting in motion the gentle protracted gurgle , he stared into space , completely absorbed . |
| 30 | At that time I lived on the flat and rather featureless coast of East Anglia , and spent most of my spare time sailing its lonely creeks and estuaries . |