Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was unexpectedly hot , and had brought out a sudden rash of men leering from shop doorways and cars for a glimpse of female flesh , while Vonetta struggled to find my flat on the sprawling council estate where I live . |
| 2 | However , as the bitter winter weather approaches , I should like to concentrate my speech on the basic problem of enabling people to find shelter so that hon. Members do not again have to face the awful reality of stepping around people huddled under snow-covered tarpaulins , lying in shop doorways in the streets of our city . |
| 3 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 4 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 5 | The Digital board , which is reviewing its international operation and cutting 25,000 jobs from a worldwide payroll of 102,000 , intends to concentrate its resources on a single computer manufacturing base for ease of access to the European market . |
| 6 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 7 | Drawing on an analysis of American inter-organizational relations Lindblom argues that it is simply not possible for the central state to impose its wishes on the local state . |
| 8 | In recent years , the Conservative government in Britain has increasingly been able to impose its agenda on the nationalized industries , including the railways . |
| 9 | Though now , as Liz recited names of guests , she saw Charles drift away into what she took to be some private realm of financial speculation and morose managerial debate : he started to bite the inside of his lip , as he did when preoccupied , and to drum his fingers on the silvery-yellow brocade of the settee . |
| 10 | An unhappy gatecrasher , who had been asked to leave , had decided to vent his aggression on a defenceless paratrooper before he left . |
| 11 | An army of Slaanesh worshippers would be available to impose his will on the leaderless Elves . |
| 12 | The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter 's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment . |
| 13 | Hardly had Muawad been elected than they detected signs that the Syrians were less than eager to give him the support he needed to impose his authority on the whole country . |
| 14 | Hardly had Muawad been elected than they detected signs that the Syrians were less than eager to give him the support he needed to impose his authority on the whole country . |
| 15 | The telephone was ringing as McLeish walked into his own flat , and he picked it up to find his Commander on the other end of the line . |
| 16 | There they split up , Rudi going by train to Gdynia where he managed to work his passage on a Polish boat to Stockholm . |
| 17 | It would be far more sensible to concentrate his thoughts on the lovely girl at his side . |
| 18 | GARY JACOBS , of Glasgow , the newly-crowned European welterweight champion , yesterday officially relinquished the British title to concentrate his efforts on a planned world challenge early this summer . |
| 19 | It is only by being so that he is able to concentrate his efforts on the detailed articulation of the paradigm and to perform the esoteric work necessary to probe nature in depth . |
| 20 | At least for the moment , Scapula was able to concentrate his forces on the western frontier , which now extended to the Wye and the Severn . |
| 21 | Italians were now coming to the fore in car racing thanks to Alfa , and Nuvolari joined the team as the man to spearhead their attack on the German manufacturers . |
| 22 | The development of transport and communications techniques enables corporations to plan their production on a worldwide basis . |
| 23 | Young Group , the open cast coal miner that is soon to lose its quote on the unlisted securities market , was a peculiar market . |
| 24 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 25 | The 987 will let HP compete against the whole AS/400 family and gives the company added ammunition to continue its assault on the downsizing mainframe market . |
| 26 | She has since returned 11 times to continue her research on the long-term environmental effects of the US/Vietnam war , and last year published the book The regreening of Vietnam ( The Women 's Press , £17.95hb ) . |
| 27 | It 's now occupied by Montupet who are allowing the legion of De Lorean fans to drive their cars on the old test track once again . |
| 28 | This is the conclusion of an in-depth Wall Street Journal investigation which suggests that its moves may have served to bolster its results on a short-term basis and push problems into the future . |
| 29 | The more energetic will be off to the King Alfred Leisure Centre to risk their dignity on the Wild Waters and on the three 100-metre slides . |
| 30 | ‘ Through these portals passed such illustrious men as Pitt , Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , to carve their names on the glorious history of England , ’ he had said to his young and captive audience . |