Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 2 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 3 | I will certainly look with compassion in days to come on the three hon. Members whom I have not been able to call on the statement , but we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 4 | There are 400 commitments to take forward in the next year — from proposals for new standards for indoor air quality to work on the major international agreements which we hope will be signed at the earth summit in Brazil in June 1992 . |
| 5 | After five sentences , stop and pause , take a deep breath , look out of the window , then come back to work on the next five sentences . |
| 6 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 7 | At Rackhams in Birmingham , sales have already beaten last year 's figures after the store decided to open on the last four Sundays before Christmas . |
| 8 | Yet the British advocates of EMU , such as Sir Leon Brittan , prefer to dwell on the supposed practical benefits , playing down the political implications . |
| 9 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 10 | I have tried , although in a condensed form , to focus on the dominant technical problems of today 's art market . |
| 11 | As an example of our approach to regeneration areas , work on the redevelopment of the Crown Street project has progressed to the point where most of the roads and services are in place and work is about to start on the first 200 houses . |
| 12 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of HP 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under the new agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 13 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of Hewlett 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under yesterday 's agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 14 | I like all this and that bit but she has er , you end up to go on the dirty little foxes and you get on and there 's so , runny nosed yobbo kid about twelve , gets on |
| 15 | Although Carter 's is shorter , he manages to touch on the major theoretical preconceptions which underlie current pedagogical applications of stylistics without obviously privileging any one . |