Example sentences of "[to-vb] on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion . |
| 2 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 3 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 4 | But heating and housing technology were not brought to bear on this , the single most significant change in the way we live . |
| 5 | A source of evidence that is often brought to bear on this question is the relative abundances of certain inert gas isotopes . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue . |
| 7 | The Institute has a key role to play in bringing the expertise of transport professionals to bear on this issue . |
| 8 | Although there are many complex factors in anorexia , I have chosen to concentrate on this sense of self-hatred and dissatisfaction with her body and image ; on those areas which are directly about the question : ‘ How do I look ? ’ |
| 9 | The choice to concentrate on this period should not be taken as implying that coin designs are unimportant in the study of other cultures , for this is not at all the case . |
| 10 | Now although evolutionary research can lead and indeed has led to major breakthroughs , it is so unlikely that it would not be sensible to concentrate on this type of research , for which in any case there are many potential sources of funds . |
| 11 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 12 | She tried to concentrate on this so as not to have to think about what Finn was saying . |
| 13 | As the administrative receiver is unique to company law ( and is probably the most common type of receiver appointed with respect to companies ) it is proposed to concentrate on this type of receiver . |
| 14 | And I would ask you to direct your questions to that , because there 's an another time and another place when you can talk and er discuss , and put forward proposals regarding the councils overall budgets , so I would ask you to concentrate on this , but . |
| 15 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 16 | The authors , who appear to be well qualified to write on this topic , state that the book is intended as an introduction to the concept of non-directive play therapy . |
| 17 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 18 | You do n't have to have had one to be able to comment on this . |
| 19 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 20 | Publishers have been reluctant to comment on this proposed scheme at present , but it is believed to be an agreement whereby a publisher 's rep would be given authority to put into the store any title in any quantity , for example 500 copies of a new title , and after 60 days would take back any copies the manager no longer wanted . |
| 21 | Thank you for inviting Wales Link 's member bodies to comment on this important planning policy guidance note . |
| 22 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on this draft PPG Note . |
| 23 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on this important draft planning policy guidance note . |
| 24 | If members of the public or organisations wish to comment on this Plan they should write |
| 25 | But I think the twenty pounds extra for another telly is the one that er you might like to comment on this morning . |
| 26 | Observations from the only two grammarians to comment on this aspect of the meaning of let ( Cotte 1982b and Mittwoch 1990 ) put us on the trail of the explanation . |
| 27 | Is it , do you wish to comment on this paper ? |
| 28 | I 'd just like to comment on this this matter |
| 29 | I 'd like to comment on this matter of the relationship between the western relief road and a possible inner northern relief road . |
| 30 | referring to , paragraphs one hundred and four to one hundred and nine , saying , Miss also wishes to comment on this |