Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 ( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm .
2 Quality standards require firms to have a system that ensures that time spent on case work can be properly recorded and attributed .
3 She was ready and waiting when Roman tapped on her door .
4 Bull and Wills were just eight minutes from the spot and arrived as officers swooped on Calton .
5 Hari led him to the bench and watched as Lewis tied on his apron .
6 In commenting critically on the proposed text of the Restatement , cited above , the Solicitor General stressed the strong policy of the United States procedural rules to secure efficient and effective discovery in all cases ; declared foreign reliance on judicial sovereignty to have an abstract quality , which did not elucidate substantive foreign interests , and which needed to be evaluated in the light of the established American principle that its courts could require foreign nationals to produce evidence located abroad ; and urged that objections based on a blocking statute should be greeted with caution and scepticism in any proper comity analysis .
7 Fabia echoed , and hoped as light dawned on her that she had got it right , ‘ You 're saying that Mr Gajdusek is going to Prague ? ’
8 But more than that , a democratic government , like any other , exists to uphold and enforce a certain kind of society , a certain set of relations between individuals , a certain set of rights and claims that people have on each other both directly , and indirectly through their rights to property .
9 Popular nursing mythologies are demystified and explained and advice given on tailoring re-entry preparation to suit individual learning needs .
10 In 999 he speaks of delay in getting the fleet into action , and suggests that delay occurred on other occasions , but without explaining why .
11 So , when the trigger is pulled on the Light Rifle the software must freeze the action and establish whether the target on the screen is aligned with the position of the gun .
12 Here she was , past the prime of life it was true , but grumbling because others depended on her for their family traditions to be kept up , and here was Doris Smythe with no family and unable to do much for herself — and she was the sort of person who 'd always helped others when she was younger , Linda remembered .
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