Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | After 20 years ' service the almost total entitlement to remain on full pay , albeit suspended from duty , until the age of 65 . |
| 3 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 4 | How else can you claim the insurance cover the certificate offers on all defects which occur in the first two years , and structural defects up to ten years ? |
| 5 | We are also concerned about the reliance placed on these tests but in a different context . |
| 6 | Fourth , the grant depended on continued government goodwill ; in 1983 it was cut , and part of the rest was allotted only to courses jointly approved by employers . |
| 7 | In its reserved judgement given on 12th March 1992 , the Court concluded that the Visitors acted in their capacity as Judges of the High Court and not as visitors in the usual sense and were thus not reviewable . |
| 8 | In a judgement given on 14th May 1992 , the House of Lords allowed Johnson Matthey 's appeal that the £50 million payment in 1984 to its former subsidiary , Johnson Matthey Bankers Limited , was a revenue payment and eligible for tax relief . |
| 9 | The unification treaty provided for existing arrangements to continue to apply and required parliament to agree on uniform legislation by the end of 1992 [ see pp. 37661 ; 37833 ] . |
| 10 | The range has eight firing points on two levels . |
| 11 | If the GP insists on that referral , the health authority will honour it , provided that it is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds . |
| 12 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 13 | We let the Pacer loose on two testers — one fast , one slow . |
| 14 | Suffolk County Council is building ramped crossing points on either side of the road , plus an island in the centre of the carriageway . |
| 15 | ‘ Another story touching on wet days : poor old Mrs Suggett told me it . |
| 16 | Judge Allen told Clarke : ‘ Nothing this court can do can remedy the harm caused by your decision to drive on that day . ’ |
| 17 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |
| 18 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 19 | So on this tour , because I 'm playing so much off stage , I have the opportunity to work on certain things , certain licks here and there , and then the next night I can go out and actually play them live . |
| 20 | The three businesses comprise 60.9%-owned San Diego-based subsidiary GTI Corp , which makes magnetic components for the local area network market ; UK-based Zetex , a specialist analogue semiconductor manufacturer for the data storage market ; and Trend , which has now completely moved out of defence to concentrate on dedicated telecommunications test equipment . |
| 21 | It will also meet with resistance from some of the groups that stand to gain from such policies because of the grip that the ideology of inequality has on British society . |
| 22 | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opens this month in a privately funded $150-million building located on 1.9 acres of government land adjacent to the National Mall . |
| 23 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue . |
| 25 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 26 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 27 | He needs to have time and freedom to concentrate on proper spending ! ) |
| 28 | No counsel appearing on this appeal has attempted to defend those findings of fact or suggest that the reasons are in any way adequate . |
| 29 | She is wearing her party smile which slashes to a snarling slaver and she makes it to the kitchen where cold steal lies on Dutch tiles . |
| 30 | The Leith line had another branch added on 1 August 1903 to South Leith Docks from Newhaven via Bonnington , Leith Walk and Seafield . |