Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marriage has certainly been on the agenda but as neither of us feel compelled to get wed on either moral or religious grounds , we simply have n't got round to it . |
| 2 | Island Records , never the exploiters of Marley 's music some believe ( Lee Parry once claimed on quickly deleted vinyl that the company ‘ Kill Bob Marley and take away his royalties ’ ) , have recently issued the ‘ Talkin' Blues ’ album of out-takes , and last year released several Marley albums afresh on tape and CD . |
| 3 | The software will have to be installed on both the portable and the server . |
| 4 | It is useful to decide before the accounts system is installed on exactly what analysis is going to be needed and then design the books ( or buy the packages ) needed to meet these ends . |
| 5 | In the north , the party can count on fairly widespread support . |
| 6 | At present , he can not count on more than five or six votes in the 23-strong general committee , while outside his once well-organised Reform Group/Members ' 84 Group has disbanded . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't count on too many incidents like that , ’ she laughed . |
| 8 | Today , Mr Rafsanjani can count on only a handful of technocrats in the Majlis ; even his own ministers sometimes desert him . |
| 9 | There 's one vote you can count on then Geoffrey . |
| 10 | " Oh , I think I can count on about a hundred , " said the bear . |
| 11 | The predictable result would have been an intensification of agriculture and we may be witnessing this in the drift of settlements ending on more fertile and productive soils and the changes in cereal crops being cultivated . |
| 12 | The reserve force was established in 1970 to take over the policing functions of the disbanded B Specials and was designed as back-up for the regular force , freeing regulars from lowlevel security work in order to concentrate on both routine policing and high-profile riot policing . |
| 13 | Then , work on your calves and ankles so you are ready to concentrate on more advanced leg exercises . |
| 14 | The system also allows parent firms to concentrate on more capital intensive processes . |
| 15 | Diana said I looked ill , and needed a holiday at the seaside , but St John thought I ought to concentrate on more serious work , and gave me even more Hindustani exercises to do . |
| 16 | For example , the need to generate income may lead trusts to concentrate on more profitable areas of work at the expense of others , or to discriminate between different categories of patients — private and public , DHA patients and those of GP fundholders — and between patients from one district and those from another . |
| 17 | It 's just opened Mansion House , its first ever nursery , allowing student mums to concentrate on more profound subjects , than feeding bottles and dirty nappies . |
| 18 | ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions . |
| 19 | Aunt has n't let on much about her chum . ’ |
| 20 | The examination boards , newly grouped on broadly regional lines , are responsible for administering the examinations , but no longer for determining the syllabuses or the methods of examination . |
| 21 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |
| 22 | When she 'd finished it she moved on more slowly this time , stopping twice for a fit of coughing . |
| 23 | A radiograph of the chest was reported on as normal ( figure ) . |
| 24 | While they were in the pub , in a corner far from a window , the rain had come on heavily , the kind of rain that will soak you to the skin in two minutes . |
| 25 | His one-handed work has come on tremendously . |
| 26 | Johnson had come on tremendously under his coach Charlie Francis since winning the 100 metres silver medal in Brisbane . |
| 27 | He has come on tremendously , and is still only 16 . |
| 28 | Technically the Austrians have come on strongly , Rudolph Nierlich winning two slalom golds at the Vail World Championships . |
| 29 | Technically the Austrians have come on strongly , Rudolph Nierlich winning two slalom golds at the Vail World Championships . |
| 30 | Bronchitis of children with coarse rattling , coughing , gagging and a sense of suffocation , weight and anxiety in the chest , after a rapid onset and they look dreadfully sick , drawn and pale ; the condition has come on rapidly . |