Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] on the [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | With him timing the lines , the star could concentrate just on the emotional truth of his acting , and the result was very powerful . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The research will concentrate particularly on the changing role of the city 's political and economic elites . |
| 17 | All this will fall hard on the private sector . |
| 18 | So there are two reasons why we will concentrate heavily on the human side in resolving doubt . |
| 19 | This will be discussed in section 7.4.3 and the current section will focus specifically on the tropical rainforest . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He looked down , and with a sort of fatal satisfaction realised that he would land right on the biggest wolf . |
| 22 | I 'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you . |
| 23 | The number of mills that could work effectively on the same stream was limited , which led to smaller streams being used by means of building dams to create mill-ponds . |
| 24 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 25 | Its name will feature prominently on the 1993–95 Lotus cars ' back wing as well as the drivers ' racing suits . |
| 26 | The secretary-general will report formally on the Libyan response to the Security Council later today . |
| 27 | Training for speed must work repeatedly on the fast twitch fibres on a stop — go basis . |
| 28 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This is a CMOS technology device and , to some extent , prone to damage from static electricity which can build up on the human body . |