Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission created a subcommission of members in Paris with Friedel as chairman to work on the document . |
| 2 | The band left us after lunch to play on the esplanade of Stirling Castle . |
| 3 | The inhumanity seems to lie in allowing the full weight of responsibility to fall on the child . |
| 4 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I said that I hope to breed the fish in this tank , but at the moment there does not appear to be any indication of willingness to breed on the part of any of the fish . |
| 7 | It was because the Callaghan Government ran out of money to spend on the water industry and the big utilities that they encountered such problems . |
| 8 | Potential will be assessed in other cases , though , against a team who will have millions of pounds worth of talent to spare on the substitutes bench . |
| 9 | There was still an immense amount of work to do on the boat , not the least of which , it seemed to us , was replacing her rotting mainmast . |
| 10 | Costs had been taxed in the action at law but it was no business of the courts of law to decide on the amount that , in equity , the mortgagee would be allowed in a redemption action . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Sampson , on the other hand , does not seem to feel in the least inhibited by his own lack of competence to pronounce on the matter . |
| 13 | In short , it seems inevitable that most PC software will need some kind of re-write to run on the Portfolio , and some of it will never fit at all . |
| 14 | And if you do choose to use teacher-in-role there are going to be many occasions when you 'll have to step out of role to reflect on the work . |
| 15 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 16 | Literature classes with older people can be rewarding ; they bring a longer experience of life to bear on the subject , and often a wide range of reading . |
| 17 | The man was overcoming his feelings of inferiority by demonstrating that he had the strength of will to remain on the bank , unperturbed , while the child drowned . |
| 18 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 19 | its , it , the other truck drivers and I have to say that erm to a certain extent you do need to be forceful and positive because er they need a lot of space to manoeuvre on the road and a lot of people who drive cars do n't quite realize how much space they need and if they wo n't give you the space you have to take it . |
| 20 | Programs can involve much more elaborate calculations than the teacher , let alone the pupils , can possibly undertake in the class ; equally the management of information to appear on the screen is essentially sophisticated . |
| 21 | It is , of course , a good thing that Extreme dislike war and racism , print addresses for Greenpeace and Amnesty on the sleeve and so forth , but they have nothing of interest to say on the topics ( Nuno wishes that ‘ we were all colourblind , so we could live together peacefully ’ , which is bad news for traffic light designers ) and blow up their tiny philosophical points and questions to elephant size , but in the end , orchestras , big productions and songs in three parts can not disguise lame tunes and lack of anything to say . |
| 22 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 23 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 24 | ‘ There is plenty of time to get on the bus . ’ |
| 25 | Percentage for Art and the people behind it believe it 's time th the time has come for art to go on the offensive . |
| 26 | with attention to rain on the skylight |
| 27 | We are so accustomed to focussing on language , that there is a strong tendency in teaching with video to focus on the words in the same way we do with audio . |
| 28 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 29 | liaison with staff and students , for example to advise on the regulations ; |
| 30 | The final through train to run on the loop was the ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ hauled railtour of June 1963 , which fought its way through the weed ridden tracks on its way south . |