Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the progress made , it was agreed to cancel the meeting in Tombouctu but to continue discussions on Jan. 16 in Algeria . |
| 2 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 3 | Erm we expect to see improvements on chlorine , but I ca n't give you a time . |
| 4 | Commentators are also pressing for a staggered implementation , with companies being allowed to report progress on compliance for a given period of time . |
| 5 | Russians in mood to hit Reds on break |
| 6 | In the mood of schoolboys off on an expedition to plant stinkbombs on speechday , the party set off from Westminster Pier , shadowed by two police launches . |
| 7 | Fnac is asking its customers to sign a petition opposing the proposals to reintroduce r.p.m. on books . |
| 8 | He said he would also like to see progress on workers ' safety and health , with the adoption of the directives on pregnant women and working time . |
| 9 | The effect is similar when a District Health Authority pays a private hospital to perform operations on NHS patients . |
| 10 | The ease of use and flexibility of GIS allow the user to perform operations on map data that were previously impossible on a large scale . |
| 11 | Then it was time to compare notes on cost with his opposite number in the kitchens ; Mabel Giles . |
| 12 | " It is imperative that the GCC countries establish a dynamic institutional machinery to monitor data on oil spills and enforce a sense of environmental discipline " , al-Saleh said . |
| 13 | Grove expects Intel to invest $1,600m on capital equipment this year . |
| 14 | The Region 's plan for dealing with pollution is said to emphasise action on prevention before the installation of purification plants , but these will have to be tackled in the centres of Venice and Chioggia . |
| 15 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 16 | Most researchers start from the assumption that it is morally wrong to conduct research on people who do not know that they are being studied , and will therefore tell them at least that they are writing a book , even if they are not wholly frank about what the book is going to be about . |
| 17 | While SUGA is mainly a group for social events and self-help , the local carers officer , help members to plan sessions on careers guidance for the 50 or so members . |
| 18 | They were to stand trial on charges of planning the death in 1976 of Orlando Letelier , a former ambassador to the United States and then Minister in the government of President Salvador Allende , and of Letelier 's secretary Ronnie Moffit [ see pp. 28273 ; 34989 ; 36097 ; July 38334-35 ] . |
| 19 | A special tribunal on Oct. 15 ordered the former President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) Hussain Mohammad Ershad , to stand trial on charges of gold smuggling [ for other changes see pp. 37965 ; 38288 ] . |
| 20 | Libya continued to resist pressures from the governments of the United States , the United Kingdom and France for the extradition to the UK of two Libyans , Abdelbaset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , to stand trial on charges related to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing . |
| 21 | Barry made a four-minute court appearance in Washington on Feb. 28 during which he pleaded not guilty to the eight charges and was ordered to stand trial on June 4 . |
| 22 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 23 | At one time the Peacock Inn in Newhaven was the only place to find seafood on Edinburgh 's waterfront . |
| 24 | Judge Simon Evans was due to pass sentence on Elizabeth Marsh last Tuesday at London 's Isleworth Crown Court . |
| 25 | THERE is no need for Mr Smith to impose taxes on capital or on financial institutions though : his policies look set to do their damage by knocking the most valuable asset owned by most voters — their homes . |
| 26 | The Government can encourage firms to train more , but for the Government to impose taxes on companies to insist that they train more does not take into account the effects , demands and needs of different industries . |
| 27 | The report calls on the EC to shift support to organic and other ecological forms of farming , to phase out support for intensive farming , to end subsidies on EC exports and to impose taxes on pesticides and synthetic fertilisers . |
| 28 | Geoffrey Howe 's plan was to increase taxes on petrol , alcohol and cigarettes ; to raise national insurance contributions ; and , worst of all , not to increase personal tax allowances , so in effect increasing personal taxation . |
| 29 | One course being considered is to issue short-term deficit-financing bonds and to increase taxes on oil and oil products , an idea that Japan 's oil industry has already begun lobbying against . |
| 30 | In particular in recent years , the Government 's response to large numbers of people fleeing from state oppression is to impose visas on nationals of that country . |