Example sentences of "[vb infin] on the " 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 | ‘ We must act on the complaints , ’ said a spokesman for the council . |
| 5 | Did Marsilid act on the enzyme in the brain and protect a transmitter amine from premature destruction ? |
| 6 | They represent an attempt to retain autonomy through prior expression of will , after the ability to choose and act on the choice has gone . |
| 7 | It did n't act on the living , like yeast . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A trader should never act on the presumption of retrieving his circumstances when he had become flagrantly insolvent . |
| 10 | Various organisations and societies will act on the artist 's behalf in this respect and , in return for an annual subscription fee , will deal with necessary paperwork and pass on agreed fees . |
| 11 | The earliest the Treasury could act on the tax front , would be March 1991 . |
| 12 | The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body . |
| 13 | The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices . |
| 14 | He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly . |
| 15 | We would all act on the assumption that others were acting in a similar manner . |
| 16 | In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament . |
| 17 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 18 | The parliamentary reserve is lifted , and the Government can act on the proposals in the Council without further reference to the House . |
| 19 | What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole . |
| 20 | Does he realise that if he will not act on the problem , it will not only produce a tide of human misery , but will bring to a clattering end any hope of economic recovery ? |
| 21 | Why do the Government not act on the huge injustices currently affecting business people , such as original lessee liability ? |
| 22 | Her Department should act on the recommendation that local officers should be able to top up that gap for claimants if no other resources are available . |
| 23 | The surroundings include all other objects which might act on the system under investigation . |
| 24 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 25 | We can ready quickly , we can learn things quickly , we can cope , we can act on the whole rather better and rather quicker than the Continentals . |
| 26 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 27 | You can buy on the spot . |
| 28 | He can waffle on about OPEC ad infinitum , and most clients wo n't know what the hell he 's talking about , but they 'll pretend to agree with him and will buy on the strength of what he says . |
| 29 | ‘ … and three of our aircraft have failed to return , ’ the man who read the news would intone on the midday bulletin . |
| 30 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |