Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] on [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some linguists may concentrate on determining the formal properties of a language , the discourse analyst is committed to an investigation of what that language is used for . |
| 2 | The received wisdoms that to restrict the use of secure accommodation we should concentrate on refining the relative legislative criteria must be challenged . |
| 3 | Instead , companies should concentrate on tapping the growing flow of new technology coming out of Japan . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a lot of work still to do in this match and we must concentrate on getting the right total in our second innings . |
| 5 | If you 've got big heavy strings on an acoustic , you ca n't bend them around , so you 'll concentrate on getting the best possible tone from those big strings . |
| 6 | The authorities may insist on interviewing the former premier 's son personally . |
| 7 | After 100 years of storage , work could begin on dismantling the whole plant to ‘ green field site ’ status . |
| 8 | Ten years ago yesterday British Rail signed a million-pound contract so work could start on repairing the Victorian building 's roof . |
| 9 | Filip said the Personal RISC unit would focus on implementing the single-chip PowerPC 601 , 602 , 603 and its architecture . |
| 10 | However most practitioners of literary stylistics , including Halliday himself on a later occasion ( Halliday 1971 ) , would insist on supplementing the comparative approach just described with some kind of functional analysis — analysis , that is , that asks what the language of a text does , how it contributes to the meaning and effect of the whole . |
| 11 | The Centre 's activities in this area will concentrate on providing the appropriate user interface for already available software for econometric analysis , and establishing required links with Package X. In addition , in co-operation with the ESRC Data Archive , the Centre is particularly anxious to provide software for accessing the publicly available data bases such as the General Household Survey and the Family Expenditure Survey for use with Package X and the Centre 's software . |
| 12 | KIT CATCH : These two Arsenal shirts may look pretty similar — but fans will insist on having the new one ( right ) |
| 13 | However , the success of your DIP system will depend on retrieving the right index . |
| 14 | Register Office , as for The Rational , but with the following additional extras : parents of bride and groom ( if living ) ; blessing in church afterwards ( if either spouse already divorced , or if neither party can agree on going the whole way in a church wedding ) ; any children born pre-union can also be baptised in a job lot , along with the blessing ; more guests and consequently , bigger knees-up at the couple 's home ( or even in a hired room ; marquees are not supplied with this model ) . |