Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 2 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 3 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 4 | Thus it was welcomed because it seemed to bring together on the one hand the idealized liberalism of the l960s and 1970s — when pupils and teachers hoped to romp together through an uninhibited dance of individualized learning , projects , pupil-centred learning-situations , and an end to authoritarian concepts of knowledge — with , on the other hand , the 1980s demand for ‘ standards ’ . |
| 5 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 6 | The public tend to focus more on the one penny than on the quarter of a million illegal profit and conclude that the incident is insignificant . |
| 7 | The load was fixed across the poles of shafts by means of a wicker basket or a wooden container made to fit horizontally on the sloping shafts . |
| 8 | Research in this area has tended to focus either on the technical approach of the systems analyst/designer or the effect of computers on clerical and managerial work , which become ‘ de-skilled ’ . |
| 9 | A maid jumped and began to scream shrilly on the same note as her mistress . |
| 10 | Before and after Bridie 's pronouncement Anglo-Scots have been striving to do well on the international field at home . |
| 11 | I 'd probably have to go there on the eighth . |
| 12 | After a while , that first storm of angry passion seemed to dissolve , and his lips began a probing exploration , his hand shaping the length of her body and coming to rest warmly on the rounded curve of her hip . |
| 13 | The results are found to depend only on the total wavenumber and not on κ x and κ y individually . |
| 14 | Any attempt to draw up a wider programme would have to rely overwhelmingly on the only information available to the Opposition — the autumn statement in its present form . |
| 15 | However , with the best track record in swathe surveying and as the world leader in swathe data processing facilities and capabilities , WOS is well placed to capitalise profitably on the significant opportunities that are available in 1993 . |
| 16 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 17 | Woman-centred methods also tend to rely uncritically on the particular kinds of scientificity that therapeutic and humanist methods have developed . |
| 18 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 19 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 20 | But we wish to focus here on the particular problems involved in the transfer of information from producers who are external to users who are internal . |
| 21 | But for those who wish to focus more on the current century , there are three other deals — a five-year fixed rate of 7.99 per cent ( arrangement fee £245 ) , a two-year fixed rate of 6.79 per cent ( arrangement fee ) £225 ; and a one-year deal of 5.79 per cent ( arrangement fee £175 ) . |
| 22 | The council , in the absence of state schemes , continued to rely heavily on the voluntary sector for essential services . |
| 23 | Having fleshed out the frames of the characters , Whitaker virtually gave Coburn a free hand in his teleplay , needing to concentrate instead on the vast amount of work involved in reshaping the series with the loss or deferment of so many storylines . |
| 24 | The French believed that as smugglers in rowing boats constantly managed to get ashore on the English coast , an invasion fleet , given a favourable southerly wind and a calm , dark night , should be able to do the same , and hoped to use some of these clandestine sailors as pilots . |