Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 . |
| 4 | It has just announced special tools which will allow developers to write products for the unlaunched Windows NT which can run immediately on the new Windows 3.1 . |
| 5 | The top 20 scorers from last season will miss out on the early stages of the title chase , which begins at Stoke on Saturday night . |
| 6 | He warned that any more favourable rate would have inflationary consequences which would cause the Bundesbank to " step hard on the monetary brakes " . |
| 7 | ‘ Must cut down on the bloody fags , ’ he told himself . |
| 8 | Well , I think if you see a good idea , you want to share it , and I think anything that we can do that will cut down on the terrible casualties and the deaths on our roads of , particularly of children , we must do it . |
| 9 | Leaks from Clinton 's team suggest Democrats may clamp down on the massive amounts executives can earn . |
| 10 | I can soon pick up on the current contacts , get a good team together . ’ |
| 11 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 12 | We were given to understand that the A.S.R. boats did not put out on the express orders of the A.O.C. that they would be too vulnerable to air attack . |
| 13 | The album pulled a few Manhattan fads ( salsa , jazz , R&B ) into snappy pop figures and also revealed a newly flexible capacity in Jackson 's voice ; previously hard-edged and impatient , it could now sit comfortably on the grand slopes of a ballad like ‘ Breaking Us In Two ’ , a Top 20 hit in America . |