Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 , he was awarded an honorary masters degree at Guangsi Province University and has lectured on European art to post-graduate students there . |
| 2 | The Social Democrats were expected to emerge on top thanks to traditional backing from workers in the industrial south . |
| 3 | According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ . |
| 4 | But he has considerable respect for Derry , a side he has encountered on numerous occasions to date during his speel in charge of Down . |
| 5 | He will need to fly on urgent matters to Bahrain tonight . |
| 6 | It has led on repeated occasions to a sense of being hemmed in , of which the doctrine of Lebensraum was the most extreme example . |
| 7 | ‘ And more and more people are realising you do n't have to put on Indian clothes to be a Buddhist . ’ |
| 8 | Hiss , a former New Dealer and high-ranking State Department official , was accused of having passed on classified information to the Russians in the 1930s . |
| 9 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 10 | These global considerations do rely on numerical computation to a large extent , are nonrigorous , and do not provide predictions of actual behaviour at actual parameter values . |
| 11 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 12 | Most series have focused on surgical approaches to complications such as stricture and fistula formation . |