Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 2 | The task was a blessed diversion ; he could n't stop her going , he could only concentrate on turning the bloody old things till they loosened . |
| 3 | Security forces were reported to have fired over the heads of hundreds of demonstrators apparently bent on storming the official residence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on Dec. 11 . |
| 4 | He could not understand why Nanny was suddenly bent on making the worst kind of trouble for him . |
| 5 | And while compulsory metering could discourage the waste of water , the cost of installing meters might be better spent on improving the existing service — fixing leaks in the mains and educating people to conserve water . |
| 6 | With great skill , determination and unparalleled cheek , Jo Spence not only insisted on putting the unacceptable face of both our public and private lives onto the art agenda , but into the art institution . |
| 7 | In the depressive position , the infant can no longer rely on seeing the good and bad objects as entirely separate , but has to recognize their simultaneous presence in the form of the mother as whole object . |
| 8 | " You 're still set on starting the secretarial school ? " |
| 9 | ‘ I usually work on restoring the 50 original survey manuscripts drawn by Captain Cook . ’ |
| 10 | It is also concentrating on widening the art-historical issues by studying the links between critical and historical thought and between artists from diverse cultural backgrounds . |
| 11 | Or , if you really insist on going the whole hog in German cuisine ( and believe me , their culinary expertise with swine is fabled ) try Zum Schiffchen , a restaurant with absolutely no understanding of nouvelle disciplines . |
| 12 | The payment will remove another obstacle to BSB 's goal of a spring launch for their five channel subscription TV system , which now depends on solving the technological difficulties involved in the set of chips that scramble and decode the satellite signal . |
| 13 | Anti-Europeans , such as Mr Norman Tebbit , may indeed choke on reading the Christian Democrat charter agreed in Dublin in November 1990 . |