Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perkin took Mackie to shuffle on the square of dance floor adjoining the table . |
| 2 | Famous hunters such as F. C. Selous returned home to lecture on the value of big-game hunting as a means of training the next generation of empire-builders . |
| 3 | MERCHANDISERS were quick to jump on the popularity of Home Alone 2 . |
| 4 | In several of the countries we studied , we found strong evidence that good results can be achieved by community-based teams consisting of professionally-trained workers and a variety of paraprofessional personnel who bring their joint efforts to bear on a range of client and community needs . |
| 5 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We should spend more time trying to bring whatever expertise we may have to bear on the subject in question . |
| 9 | This multi-disciplinary programme brings the concepts , theories and findings of social science research to bear on the question of health inequalities in Britain . |
| 10 | This suggests a very high degree of similarity in the mental structure that is brought to bear on the input by language learners and in the strategies that they employ in constructing and progressively modifying their internal grammar . |
| 11 | Deprived of other outlets they brought all their compressed energy to bear on the world of literature and ideas . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The concept of level , it must be said , is not an original metaphor to bring to bear on the topic of consciousness : mystics have always talked of levels of consciousness , and the nineteenth-century vitalists wrote at length of the emergence of a level of consciousness from a sufficiently complex lower level of organization . |
| 14 | You may be asked to concentrate on a pinpoint of light or on a particular spot on the ceiling while the therapist makes his suggestions of relaxation . |
| 15 | JUSTIN FASHANU , player and assistant manager of Third Division Torquay , is quitting football at the end of the season to concentrate on a career in broadcasting . |
| 16 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 17 | In this chapter I want to concentrate on the response of community educators , particularly their reaction to the problems and issues facing the working class . |
| 18 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 19 | We have already experienced the abolition of free eye and dental checks , we are suffering from the creeping privatization of the Health Service , the selling off of our water , our crumbling schools , and yet we have to concentrate on the issue of trade union , Labour Party links . |
| 20 | I do this simply to bracket off questions about how experiences relate to the world and thus to concentrate on the question of subjectivity . |
| 21 | There are professional carers as well of course , who are paid to care for other people , but this discussion is probably going to concentrate on the problems of home carers . |
| 22 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 23 | Rather , we need to concentrate on the notion of fitness for purpose . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order . |
| 25 | This caution on the part of the Communists was due to their natural antipathy to the Liberal Party , their desire to concentrate on the campaign for affiliation to the Labour Party , and organizational conflicts with the People 's Front Propaganda Committee . |
| 26 | Recent cases in this area have tended to concentrate on the aspect of duty rather than remoteness . |
| 27 | I do not suggest that , just because Britain is less violent and less prone to crime than most other west European countries , that diminishes the necessity to concentrate on the picture at home , but let us not frighten people unnecessarily by comparisons with the rest of Europe and the United States . |
| 28 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 29 | These gained so much in esteem that in 1932 a bold decision was taken to scrap existing plant and to concentrate on the production of chenille Axminster and spool Axminster carpets and rugs ’ . |
| 30 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) has urged water companies to concentrate on the stabilisation of water use by methods such as the introduction of meters and the stoppage of underground leaks , and to stop building reservoirs and sinking boreholes which it says , encourage a profligate use of water . |