Example sentences of "[noun sg] bear on the " in BNC.

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1 Multiprofessional teams bring a range of educational backgrounds , training and expertise to bear on the management of individual cases , which ensures that care is not dominated by one single professional approach .
2 Instrumentation and instrumental techniques necessary for bringing the laws of the paradigm to bear on the real world will also be included in the paradigm .
3 Other factors beside the suspended sentence bore on the size of the prison population in the early 1970s , and the trends were not encouraging .
4 This multi-disciplinary programme brings the concepts , theories and findings of social science research to bear on the question of health inequalities in Britain .
5 The knife hand break 1 : the striker rises up to bring his full body weight to bear on the target .
6 As she sipped the scotch , she reflected that if he were still alive he would no doubt be bringing the full force of his liberal rationalism to bear on the problem right now .
7 Payne Stewart , not wearing his usual football colours or his regular cap as he was playing for his country , brought emotion to bear on the contest .
8 He has brought a profound influence to bear on the belief that preventing illness is not simply a matter of treating the individual .
9 The evolution of Swedish collective bargaining into a system of economy-wide agreements was greatly dependent upon the presence on both the employer and employee sides of a small number of organisations ‘ each large enough to bring crucial influence to bear on the development of bargaining issues across the whole labour market ’ ( ILO , 1974 , p. 340 ) .
10 The effectiveness of courses was also heavily dependent on the degree of consistency and general agreement between the advisers , heads and coordinators who each had a role in the improvement of practice and who each brought their separate influence to bear on the teachers who attended the courses .
11 He brought his considerable intelligence to bear on the tiny village where he lived .
12 And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion .
13 I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat .
14 Indeed his sanguine response to his discovery lent colour to the story when it reached the evening news , and assured it of greater coverage than it might otherwise have merited , that focus in turn bringing a penetrating eye to bear on the identity of the dead man .
15 Connon now brought his full attention to bear on the objects before him .
16 Soma the father pursues Nianakoro the son across the landscape with the help of a stout magic pole borne on the shoulders of a couple of servants .
17 Apparently a crankshaft bearing on the port engine had gone , the crankshaft snapped and ran riot in the engine completely wrecking it before the fuel could be shut off .
18 Peter Berger , like Child and Goff , brought the social psychology of Mead to bear on the sociology of knowledge which emphasized the role of socialization in constituting individual identity ; ‘ psychological reality is an ongoing dialectical relationship with social structure ’ ( Berger 1970 : 374 ) .
19 The lay members are intended to bring industrial experience and practical knowledge to bear on the issues coming before the tribunal .
20 Both sources have been neglected by researchers , although they survive in large numbers , and contain very valuable evidence bearing on the British Industrial Revolution , its causes , and its effects on the standard of living .
21 In a less than perfect world it is inevitable that government authorities will sometimes act illegally , and there may be a lot to be said for bringing the ‘ loss distribution ’ insights of modern tort theory to bear on the way we perceive public law compensation .
22 My intention is to bring a little common sense to bear on the claims made by the authors mentioned above , because claims that buildings and landscape have been laid out geometrically can at least be checked .
23 Literature classes with older people can be rewarding ; they bring a longer experience of life to bear on the subject , and often a wide range of reading .
24 It would be both remarkable and alarming if that change alone did not bring greater scrutiny to bear on the perennial dilemmas of NATO strategy and of roles and responsibilities in the Alliance .
25 Psychological alienation provides Such with a narrative pretext for bringing the theories of post-Einsteinian science to bear on the way we conceive of ourselves as individuals in relation to other people .
26 I hope your excellent paper will bring pressure to bear on the media and make April 23 a special day , and make the English realise they want to be ruled by their own countryman .
27 The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ .
28 As customers if they do n't get the quality that they want they need to bring pressure to bear on the in-school supplier .
29 The European settlers gradually increased in numbers and additionally brought over slaves from the Guinea Coast thus bringing pressure to bear on the already sparse natural vegetation .
30 The attitudes of governors to the mass media vary , but most are reported to bring pressure to bear on the press , radio and television .
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