Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already bought two leading aerospace firms , Motoren-und-Turbinen-Union ( MTU ) and Dornier ; now it is about to pounce on the third and largest , Bavaria-based Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm ( MBB ) . |
| 2 | To work on the social and pragmatic influences on language processing |
| 3 | ‘ They knock on my door and say they want to pull on a black and white shirt , but when I ask them to prove it some ca n't , ’ said Keegan . |
| 4 | One of the only ways around this problem is for suppliers in industrial goods markets to encourage their customers to buy on a consistent and long term basis , under contract . |
| 5 | At present resources are limited , but there are courses and retreats which offer the opportunity to focus on the spiritual and emotional aspects of HIV in the safety of a non-judgmental and totally confidential environment . |
| 6 | We ought to focus on the practical and urgent business problems we have of managing our growth and creating a business strategy that will unite us . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , most Western interest in the slim possibilities of reform in the East tended to focus on the academic and intellectual dissidents in Eastern Europe rather than either disgraced apparatchiks or those stubborn , principled ordinary people without contacts abroad who defied the system in anonymity just because they would not bend any further . |
| 8 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 9 | However , whilst it is easy to criticize teachers for failing to embark on a thorough and methodical appraisal of their practice it should be remembered that the LEA scheme was introduced to them initially very much in terms of accountability rather than professional development , and for this reason some caution over what to reveal in the self-appraisal document is understandable . |
| 10 | Indeed there are many highly intelligent children who are completely uninterested in the kinds of questions set at O or A level in English , questions about the choice of words in the sonnets of Keats or Jane Austen 's power of characterization , who have been set to read these texts with a view to answering such questions , and who are perhaps turned away from reading for ever by being required to embark on a specialized and academic study of literary criticism for which they are totally unsuited by taste , temperament , or ability . |
| 11 | It is believed to be Miss Glover who first encouraged Christabel to embark on the grandiose and obscure epic poem , The Fairy Melusina , a retelling of the old tale of the magical half-woman , half-snake . |
| 12 | Protocols specified the level of " economic convergence " required for states to embark on the third and final stage of EMU . |
| 13 | In our democracy , Standard English confers power on its users , power to explain political issues and to persuade on a national and international stage . |
| 14 | We believe it is essential to build on the political and technical progress that was made in the agreement that environmental sustainability should be the ultimate goal for all human societies , including ours in Wales . |
| 15 | Her eyes glanced round the room before coming to rest on the lithe and handsome man sitting opposite . |
| 16 | Radio Monte Carlo reported on April 8 that the Damascus-based " rejectionist " Palestine National Salvation Front ( PNSF ) had recently outlined a " surprising " new initiative stressing the importance of adherence to the leadership of the PLO and calling for " a review of the past phase in order to agree on a political and organizational action plan " . |
| 17 | The last general election , in June 1990 [ see pp. 37542-43 ] , had given deputies a two-year mandate to agree on a federal and regional constitutional framework . |
| 18 | In view of this , it should be perequisite for users to decide on the social/human and technical objectives before approaching the information centre . |
| 19 | Forced to exist on the social and sexual margins of a society which hates us , we can break through this confinement and move centre-stage . |
| 20 | He 'd tried to fight it , to stay on the straight and narrow to the M1 , but had turned off eastwards like an automaton . |
| 21 | Lee ( 1985 ) argues from US data that many elderly people prefer independent living , but previously had to depend on the financial and other support of their children . |
| 22 | This does not include the sales back-up staff but only refers to those who are active in the field , meeting customers fact to face on an organised and planned basis . |
| 23 | This plan of alternating narrative and poetic lyricism was , of course , the outline scheme for many of the older operas , using recitative for the narration and arias or choruses to expand on the emotional and poetic episodes . |
| 24 | On the other hand , we do not mean to deny that such intelligence may act according to law ( that is to say on a preconceived and definite plan ) . |
| 25 | At first some of the monks were loath to enter on a long and expensive case before the pope , but they had among their number a man of mature years , called Thomas of Marlborough , who had been at the schools of Paris and who had taught at Oxford . |