Example sentences of "on [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , if the ferret is half-starved its first and understandable reaction on encountering a rabbit in a burrow is to kill immediately and then to settle down and eat it . |
| 2 | WAV files ) during system events such as start-up , shutdown and on encountering an error . |
| 3 | ‘ I was n't counting then on encountering such severe provocation , ’ he murmured throatily . |
| 4 | For secondary school pupils , database creation may as yet mean very little outside the computer studies department but , on encountering some examples of databases in S1/S2 , they may remember similar exercises with football terms or animals in primary school . |
| 5 | The Institute 's Tax Faculty has issued a guidance note on a company 's exposure to penalties on submitting a corporation tax Pay and File return containing estimated figures . |
| 6 | It sometimes happens that , after tenders have been submitted , tenderers are advised of the highest figures and either are asked to submit , or themselves insist on submitting , an even higher one . |
| 7 | The task force will concentrate on rooting out theft of trade secrets and high-tech components , particularly integrated circuits . |
| 8 | In the US great emphasis has been placed on rooting out aggressive instincts from those used for show stock , but this lead has not been followed so staunchly elsewhere . |
| 9 | Another example of lingering pollution taboos in Catholicism lies in the ban on including women in the Holy Thursday ceremony of the washing of the feet . |
| 10 | To my mind , the answer to the question depends on ascertaining in the context of the Act as a whole what is the administration referred to . |
| 11 | James decided to concentrate his efforts on subduing Londonderry , but in the end had to ride back , damp and disappointed , to Dublin , where , on 26 April , as he wrote in his memoirs , ‘ he found the arms not arrived from Cork , Kinsale or Waterford ; and that in the arsenal nothing had been done for preparing of tools ’ . |
| 12 | Free from all other threats of war Henry could concentrate on subduing Richard . |
| 13 | Instead they concentrated all their energies on subduing the rebels ' capital , the citadel of St Martial 's . |
| 14 | ( c ) On reacting potassium chlorate ( vii ) ( potassium perchlorate ) , with fluorosulphonic acid a gas X is evolved |
| 15 | This strategy implies that we should have no preconceived ideas about the research we should support and that we should concentrate on deriving the criteria against which we should assess proposals which , on the balance of probabilities might stand the best chance of success . |
| 16 | Cricket : Heat is on struggling S Africans |
| 17 | The papers also urged Germans to swoop on struggling Italy and snap up cheap handbags , shoes and wine . |
| 18 | In each case , the calculi were found on repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography , performed because of recurrent ascending cholangitis ( six patients ) or progressive liver failure ( three patients ) . |
| 19 | See the keyword REPEAT for more details on REPEAT … |
| 20 | This involves choosing a further veneer ( D ) , and when you do , keep an eye on maintaining a good contrast between the two linear shapes produced . |
| 21 | But most ballots endorsed proposals for industrial action and all of the union ballots held in 1985 on maintaining a political fund overwhelmingly endorsed the idea . |
| 22 | The ball had to be struck perfectly and Stewart , who has an enviable rhythm at all times , concentrated on maintaining balance . |
| 23 | Concentrating on maintaining a foothold on rocks worn smooth by winter torrents , I put up a startled grouse that exploded into flight . |
| 24 | Carol Kurrein has advice for fern lovers this month , as well as tips on maintaining a humid atmosphere . |
| 25 | The solidarity of Libya and of France depends on maintaining that distance , and it is confused if private individuals in the two nations have grandfathers or uncles in common . |
| 26 | If he does sport independently , he has to concentrate on maintaining control over any associated reactions which could knock him off balance as he makes a physical effort . |
| 27 | The exact mechanism of gain in the FEL¹,2,3 ; is complicated , and it depends critically on maintaining a precise phase relationship between the electron beam and the photons circulating in the optical cavity . |
| 28 | LIFESPAN : EFFECT ON MAINTAINING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT |
| 29 | Lifespan : effect on maintaining a safe environment |
| 30 | Too little has been spent on maintaining the system in the past and the industry , faced with signs of accelerating failure rates , does not yet appear to be doing enough to contain the rate of decay . |