Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [conj] " in BNC.

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1 becomes a m much major , more major part of his appraisal then , I mean branch managers tend to be fairly ambitious people , they 're not going to want to be let down on that I do n't think .
2 Could you write down on that that I 've , in brackets that for Ron I 've got tin of Liquorice Allsorts .
3 Power is supplied from a plug-in transformer , a single red LED shows that the power in on but no power switch is fitted .
4 There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through .
5 No the police wo n't move us in on until we 're halfway here .
6 However , whatever , the reason why I mention it , I do notice that Green Peace are thinking of , perhaps some members saw it in the press , did you , that Green Peace are making a formal complaint to the European Commission about switching from de-sulphurisation to importing low sulphur coal , and it may be something that we should focus in on as well .
7 I think that ha has to be in on if you 're on a slightly longer course than that a day you
8 She 'd moved in on and in with Dionne , spitting scorn at her friends , slurring drunk at parties .
9 Now this does n't alter for one moment my recommendation of this as a superb performance , but I can well imagine a non-violinist , with less understanding of the extraordinary soloistic skill involved , homing in on and lambasting the accompaniment , giving only an average rating as a result .
10 The contributors here seem instead keen to zoom in on and ferment nihilistic tendencies , through bleak but listenable insights .
11 All you have to do is return your Entry Bond complete with six codes to us or phone through on and you could be our lucky winner .
12 the name and address of everyone resident in the property who will be 18 or over on or before 1st April 1990 .
13 It was n't the best foot to start off on but there it was …
14 It has n't been picked up on Unless the computer says there 's a suff It may be
15 Er there are some areas on that that , that that all of you picked up on that I actually thought that when , just dealing with that part of the C C Q like finding out about details and everything
16 ‘ That would n't stop him — check up on whether any of his cell-mates have been released lately .
17 Erm you closed questioned which I thought Martin made very difficult for you but er obviously intentionally but erm what else is it you mentioned erm pension or benefits from the navy , you never actually picked up on whether he had any erm pension benefit from , from the forces which is something that , that we would have had to have made a note of .
18 Even as a measure of liability , it is of less importance now that shares are almost invariably issued on terms that they are to be fully paid up on or shortly after allotment and are frequently issued at a price exceeding their nominal value .
19 Are you also saying that soap operas , in particular — it may be other programmes as well — are picking up on and creating a space for discussing topics that really are preoccupying people , and rendering conscious a lot of issues that are ‘ out there ’ already ?
20 Second , any Russells Hall pupils who tried to dominate proceedings found that when they had finished , other pupils from both schools picked up on and developed points not covered by their questions .
21 Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour .
22 The jury is out on whether the Government is ushering in a new golden age of private railways or whether , in the words of one of its sworn enemies — Jimmy Knapp , the RMT transport union leader — rail privatisation will turn out to be ‘ the poll tax of the nineties ’
23 ‘ The semiconductor market also is being helped by the gradual global economic recovery that began in the US in the fourth quarter of 1992 ’ — remark that seems to ignore the fact that continental Europe is plunging into ever deeper recession while the jury is out on whether recession has bottomed in Japan.The North American market should reach $23,600m in shipments in 1993 for a growth rate of 28.1% .
24 And just over the horizon is a host of commercial massively parallel processors : the jury is still out on whether machines from the likes of Kendall Square Research Inc will really be able to slip into the mantle discarded by the mainframe , but all the evidence suggests that they will .
25 ‘ The jury is still out on whether self regulation by doctors is adequate , ’ says Ian Kennedy , a professor of law and a former member of the General Medical Council ( GMC ) .
26 Meanwhile , among economists , the jury is still out on whether regional trade blocs and bilateral trade agreements are any more than a second-best strategy .
27 Any course of instruction , carried out on or off site , directed by your Library Department , your Local Authority/Board , or any other external organization .
28 Therefore , refusing to proceed to a census point ( or a traffic survey being carried out on or in the vicinity of a road ) is now an offence under this section .
29 to take such steps as are necessary to secure that there will be available in connection with the use of the substance at work adequate information about the results of any relevant tests which have been carried out on or in connection with the substance and about any conditions necessary to ensure that it will be safe and without risks to health when properly used . ’
30 When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present .
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