Example sentences of "on this [noun] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that the polytechnics and other public service institutions should leave to the universities the essential functions of pursuing and transmitting specialist knowledge through research and scholarship and that , drawing on this knowledge should concentrate on the no less difficult and important task of meeting this wider demand from potential learners from 18 to 80 . |
| 2 | I suppose a woman speaking out on this issue might appear slightly inelegant . |
| 3 | From the Soviet perspective a socialist government in Kampuchea has remained a sine qua non of any settlement of the Kampuchean issue , although Soviet resolve on this issue may weaken in the face of the current ASEAN commitment to a neutral Kampuchea ( see below ) . |
| 4 | The funding up by 14pc on this year will enable 495 acres of derelict land to be cleaned up for industrial , commercial , housing and leisure development . |
| 5 | As many as one in ten of the babies born on this beach will die here . |
| 6 | A forest on this scale would absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide . |
| 7 | It would take at least a generation to find and train effective top management cadres for the English regions Reorganisation of the management of English government on this scale would cause a decade of chaos in local services . ’ |
| 8 | To remove water from fermented alcohol on this scale would require quite uneconomic amounts of energy . |
| 9 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 10 | There is far more at stake here than people suppose : on this election could turn the future of Britain as an entity , the future of Britain in Europe and the future of Britain as a parliamentary democracy . |
| 11 | ‘ Members of the public who want further information on this release should contact the Environmental Health Department , . ’ |
| 12 | On this decision will depend the phrase by which the plan is referred to in the parcels clause itself . |
| 13 | The outcome in this patient suggests that the delay in diagnosis and hence starting effective antibiotic treatment may have given rise to the abnormality in both the humoral response and T cell function , which on this occasion may have contributed to the development of an associated extraintestinal lymphoma . |
| 14 | In fact , at the time when Macmillan 's advice was sought he had ceased to be Prime Minister and it is the more odd that the Queen on this occasion should have , in Macmillan 's words , said that ‘ she did not need and did not intend to seek any other advice but mine ’ . |
| 15 | Egyptian insistence on this position would lead to a withdrawal of Israeli participation , given the refusal of the Prime Minister , Mr Yitzhak Shamir , to deal directly with the PLO . |
| 16 | Egyptian insistence on this position would lead to a withdrawal of Israeli participation , given the refusal of the Prime Minister , Mr Yitzhak Shamir , to deal directly with the PLO . |
| 17 | By the end of the seventeenth century a pamphleteer commenting on this tendency could write that now , in contrast to the attitude of former times , ‘ 20,000 Men are accounted great Slaughter ’ . |
| 18 | Exercise on this level will calm the mind , improve digestion and increase the metabolic rate of the body , enabling us to detoxify and provide the vitality that only comes with balance . |
| 19 | The cutaway on this guitar would suggest a soloing facility and the EN shines in this department , too . |
| 20 | The question was whether supporting the teacher on this basis might lead to the required change in his attitude , help him to see the situation in a new light , and thus affect his perception of the problem . |
| 21 | The development of medical treatment on this basis may reduce the need for surgery , with its associated morbidity and high recurrence rates . |
| 22 | The joint council of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) member states and representatives of the European Communities held its third meeting in Kuwait on May 16 , and issued a statement noting that the EC 's proposed carbon tax [ see p. 38938 ] had been discussed at length , that GCC countries had expressed doubt as to its effectiveness in curbing emissions , and that negotiations on this topic would continue . |
| 23 | Briefing on this topic should cover the incidence of crime , whether it is usual for expatriates to employ security staff and , if so , when such staff should be on duty , and procedures for dealing with the police . |
| 24 | Agreement on this suggestion would bring the meeting to a close , and most of those present would not have to do anything at all about the wretched book . |
| 25 | Meantime , the 7½ inch gauge Coal Yard Branch Line was in full operation using a visiting 0-4-0T locomotive , scaled on ‘ Cadbury Number 2 ’ and a feature on this railway will appear in SRN in the near future . |
| 26 | It enacts in its form a faith that the experience of broken suffering in time is in reality the choreography and notation for the dance and music of love and Rolle advises his disciple that meditation on this reality will draw up her heart " so hert mai loke intil heven " ( 69.261 – 2 ) . |
| 27 | I regret that , and we on this Bench will vote against it . |
| 28 | A formal papal judgement on this point would have dispelled all doubts . |
| 29 | I therefore My Lords conclude that the Bill on this point should stand as it is and in general I strongly support my Honourable Friend the Home Secretary on the plans that he now puts before the organisation of police authorities in tackling the serious problems of law and order which we all face in this country today . |
| 30 | Unclear guidance on this point could cause confusion over what information should be made available , and give rise to demands for information not covered by the disclosure provisions . |