Example sentences of "[vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both kinds of work take care not to draw the yarn tightly at the back or the stitches will pucker on the right side of the work . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been announced by the Chancellor Neville Chamberlain that work will recommence on the hull designated 534 in Clydebank . |
| 3 | Czechoslovak Prime Minister Marian Calfa declared on Feb. 5 that work would recommence on the basis of the so-called " C " scheme , which envisaged the diversion of Danube waters . |
| 4 | Once again a new academic year approaches , and in order to help you expand your skills , and develop your ideas for future lessons , our In-Service Training days will recommence on Saturday 22nd . |
| 5 | Dáil members would act on a decision of the hierarchy once that hierarchy had said the teaching of the church was at issue , providing of course that the area in question was a grey one , a new territory not previously covered by the generally accepted sacred-profane spheres . |
| 6 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 7 | Roirbak made sure the firm would act on his , and Crevecoeur 's , behalf by initiating procedures first thing in the morning . |
| 8 | ‘ We must act on the complaints , ’ said a spokesman for the council . |
| 9 | It is to help them act on reasons which bind them . |
| 10 | But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals . |
| 11 | Did Marsilid act on the enzyme in the brain and protect a transmitter amine from premature destruction ? |
| 12 | They represent an attempt to retain autonomy through prior expression of will , after the ability to choose and act on the choice has gone . |
| 13 | It did n't act on the living , like yeast . |
| 14 | Should you make a written request for a change in your payment arrangements , we will act on this as promptly as possible and where we are unable to comply with your request , we will send a full response within 10 working days . |
| 15 | The complexity of psychological factors involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment means that publicity campaigns and health education programmes must go beyond simply imparting information about safety , realising that people often know what they should and could do , and yet do not act on their knowledge . |
| 16 | But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here . |
| 17 | He would act on your behalf to the chief constable . |
| 18 | There are machines which will act on a spoken command . |
| 19 | It is not yet known how the active components of ginseng , compounds called triterpenoidal saponins , achieve these effects , although by analogy with the related steroidal saponins , such as digitalis , they may act on specific cell membranes . |
| 20 | It is one thing to say we have a goal ; it is another to actually act on it . |
| 21 | It was as if I could n't act on my own behalf . |
| 22 | A trader should never act on the presumption of retrieving his circumstances when he had become flagrantly insolvent . |
| 23 | It is maintained that neither group of islands will lose out from this arrangement , even in emergencies , as there are deputies in both Kirkwall and Lerwick who can act on police reports . |
| 24 | Batson said : ‘ We will act on their behalf as they know we always will and also involve the Football League . ’ |
| 25 | Vincent did n't act on this heady , alarming advice for some time to come . |
| 26 | And even if they do collect the information , a lot of them ‘ fall down ’ because they do n't act on it . |
| 27 | 4.1.1 The Lead Organization has represented and acted on behalf of the Parties in making an application to IEATP for a Government Grant and shall represent and act on behalf of the parties in the acceptance of such Grant on terms acceptable to all of the Parties hereto including the completion of the project to the satisfaction of IEATP . |
| 28 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 29 | Shall we act on it ? ’ |
| 30 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |