Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that something you can easily forget , pulling a man 's trousers on when he 's got handcuffs on and lying on his front ? |
| 2 | Mr Bewick was criticised strongly yesterday by Mr Sells for carrying out too many operations rather than reflecting on the ethics involved . |
| 3 | They seem determined to spend their community charge payers ' money on the most irrelevant and frivolous projects rather than concentrating on the real problems that the hon. Gentleman described . |
| 4 | When BAT Industries , ICI and others are divesting activities as raiders appear ; when Courtaulds and Racal are divesting or splitting activities so as to focus on their core businesses ; the time has surely come to think again about corporate and other strategies . |
| 5 | Families are to be encouraged to live in their own homes rather than to rely on the state ( in the form of local authorities ) for the provision of council housing . |
| 6 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 7 | Nobody remarked on it because all the students are foreign and occasionally take trips home or go on sightseeing tours . |
| 8 | Praxis says it is well down the development road of getting an ANDF installer up on another RISC , possibly the Inmos Transputer , whilst there are known to be several other key players keen to get installers up and running on their kit too ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 9 | It is a simply a question of reassuring partners or close companions , rectifying the mistakes made approximately six months ago and capitalising on property or other assets . |
| 10 | But he said : ‘ For the offences involving or linked to theft from cars particularly while committed on bail I feel no other sentence than a custodial one would be appropriate . ’ |
| 11 | At this point in his writing a white pigeon which had been fluttering round the swimming-pool alighted on the table , took two steps forward and excreted on the ‘ Jottings ’ , no doubt in the interests of historical accuracy . |
| 12 | Arty closed his eyes again and concentrated on the music . |
| 13 | He yawned , closed his eyes again and turned on his side . |
| 14 | This ‘ supervisory jurisdiction ’ ( which is ‘ inherent ’ , that is to say , it is a jurisdiction which was assumed by the judges rather than conferred on the court by statute ) is to be contrasted with ‘ appellate jurisdiction ’ ( which is possessed by a number of courts and other bodies such as appeal tribunals ) . |
| 15 | It was crude , a trifle unfinished and unformed — in any other Dream , she would have researched the externals rather than built on a whim — but it was what she wanted . |
| 16 | Choose one of the ideas below or decide on your own Thinking Day theme . |
| 17 | The best hope for Buckingham Palace must be that the couple can avoid divorce , put their disappointments aside and agree on a distant but reasonably amiable working partnership . |
| 18 | Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , told Unigram last week that it has a 64-bit part that it is playing with , but there is no operating system or applications up and running on it , yet . |
| 19 | Control Techniques was founded 20 years ago and floated on the Stock Market in 1985 , when the annual turnover was £6.8m . |
| 20 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 21 | However , most of the research on families is based on clinical samples of families with problems rather than research on ‘ normal ’ families . |
| 22 | It is here that you can try things out and work on your whole repertoire of turns ( refer to previous Pocket Clinics for inspiration ) . |
| 23 | Bringing 7 visiting teams here and putting on the matches will cost almost quarter of a million pounds . |
| 24 | We hope our politicians pull their fingers out and negotiate on our behalf , ’ says March . |
| 25 | Where our competitive position is weak , we have continued to divest assets to help fund more profitable ventures elsewhere and build on our areas of strength . |
| 26 | They implement decisions rather than deciding on the overall direction of a company ; they do not have effective control over the company they work for . |
| 27 | John Edmonds , a confidant of Neil Kinnock , said the party needed to talk to potential members rather than rely on advertisements and mail shots . |
| 28 | It will accept offers only if made on its own forms and thus incorporating the terms that it wishes to include . |
| 29 | She pulled the thin green curtains together and sat on her bed . |
| 30 | Usually though , to make far-reaching decisions correctly and capitalise on opportunity , vital intelligence is essential . |