Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will consult widely on the best way forward for nature conservation and countryside bodies , including independent boards for all national parks . |
| 2 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 3 | The hardship of saving water will fall most on the poorest people . |
| 4 | The news means ACE has now effectively lost two of its main founder members — if MIPS ' submission to Silicon Graphics Inc is n't counted — and at best can count only on the flirtatious attention of Digital Equipment Corp and Microsoft Corp , who are conducting their own extra-marital affair . |
| 5 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 6 | In the evolutionary version , the payoffs are changes in fitness ; hence , although they may be difficult to measure , they do fall naturally on a linear scale . |
| 7 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
| 8 | With him timing the lines , the star could concentrate just on the emotional truth of his acting , and the result was very powerful . |
| 9 | This reading of the effect of the " fabliau entelechy " on religious imagery can also be applied to what appears as a singularly stark , socially satirical statement in this tale , the concluding lines to the portrait of Alison : These could focus critically on the selfish pleasure-taking of lords with town " wenches " , whom yeomen of lower status have to wed . |
| 10 | Marvellously played , the work might well yield more on a second hearing . |
| 11 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 12 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 13 | Whether doctors should concentrate solely on the clinical aspects of general practice or act in a wider capacity to tackle the underlying causes of ill health is a subject often discussed . |
| 14 | Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as : Why is the relationship linear ? |
| 15 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 16 | Once closed , the Home Office will fall back on the well-worn refrain that legislation is required to make a surprisingly large number of the proposals that are put forward , and that no Parliamentary time is available . |
| 17 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 18 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 19 | Rather than fall back on an increased emphasis upon managerialism based upon hierarchy and control , the Education Reform Acts should be regarded as an opportunity to review , not just in a coping way but in a maximising way , the management structures and processes of our schools . |
| 20 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 21 | The industry partnership is now exploring ways in which it can serve the pyramid schools as a whole rather than focus simply on the secondary stage . |
| 22 | The research will concentrate particularly on the changing role of the city 's political and economic elites . |
| 23 | All this will fall hard on the private sector . |
| 24 | So there are two reasons why we will concentrate heavily on the human side in resolving doubt . |
| 25 | This will be discussed in section 7.4.3 and the current section will focus specifically on the tropical rainforest . |
| 26 | But to judge something relevant to the choice of a spontaneously emerging goal as end , it is enough — as we have insisted from the first — that awareness of it does in fact act causally on the spontaneous inclination . |
| 27 | He looked down , and with a sort of fatal satisfaction realised that he would land right on the biggest wolf . |
| 28 | If standard steps are followed on each occasion , it should be easier to prevent mistakes occurring and ensure that the terms are incorporated into all contracts ; in addition , if the normal procedures do break down on a particular occasion , it may be possible to rely on the previous course of dealing . |
| 29 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 30 | I 'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you . |