Example sentences of "on [det] [noun] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my way of thinking you had seen too much of my secretary , I decided on that instant that to take you out of his vicinity was an excellent idea . ’ |
| 2 | To reflect on that match and to look forward to the Oxfordshire Cup Final between Henley and Oxford , Adam Hollingworth is joined by Ray Tapper , the Oxford coach , and Nigel Dudding , the Henley club captain . |
| 3 | Over the next three years the government plans to commit just £3.3 million on this field and to redirect British research towards collaboration with other European countries . |
| 4 | I had persuaded myself that there was no such long-continued action on this dictum as to render it improper in this House to reconsider the question . |
| 5 | Mr Sydney Breeze returned to give a further talk on this subject and to relate many of his experiences during his long career as a top link GWR driver . |
| 6 | It is considered of the first importance that young persons should receive correct and permanent impressions on this subject and to assist in securing that object it is intended to exhibit a model of a SLAVE SHIP which was recently captured upon the coast of Africa . |
| 7 | To elaborate on this division and to gain a clearer understanding of the different types of social control , it would be useful for you to try a brief exercise , answering and discussing the following questions . |
| 8 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 9 | They were told to spend a maximum of fifteen minutes on this task and to restrict their accounts to a maximum of half a page . |
| 10 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
| 11 | A new 3 year comparative Programme has therefore been mounted which , through a coordinated set of locality studies , aims to throw light on these linkages and to assess the importance to local economic and social adjustment of agencies responsible for such functions as development planning , employment creation and services delivery . |
| 12 | Saddam Hussein had urged the Iraqi parliament " to adopt your just decision to lift the travel ban on all foreigners and to restore to all of them the freedom to travel , apologizing to those who may have been harmed , and seeking forgiveness from God " . |
| 13 | While it is certainly true that the central core never issued a single agreed programme , a considerable degree of cohesion does emerge from an examination of their critical writings , and an impression of shared novelistic values is suggested by their willingness ( to a greater or lesser extent ) to appear on the same platform at conferences on several occasions and to accept , however grudgingly , the ‘ nouveau roman ’ appellation . |
| 14 | If there is a choice to be made it must be to stick to identical vendor 's product on both systems and to follow their recommendations with regard to data transfer . |