Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws . |
| 2 | Black kids seem to fail on both counts . |
| 3 | That part of the collection 's rotation has worked surprisingly well but it has necessitated the temporary removal to storage , or to its branch in Liverpool , of masterpieces which visitors expect to find on permanent view . |
| 4 | If parents choose to proceed on this basis , they should do so with the full understanding that they may be aborting a child capable of experiencing as full and satisfying a life as anyone else . |
| 5 | Another criticism is that UK banks tend to concentrate on short-term lending , causing a shortage of long-term funds for investment . |
| 6 | When you go to a banker for a loan and he asks you what security you can offer , you may think that banks exist to lend on good security . |
| 7 | If members of the public or organisations wish to comment on this Plan they should write |
| 8 | Some committees prefer to concentrate on broader issues of policy and administration . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details , sacrificing the overall picture . |
| 10 | Even the largest oil corporations have to rely on external finance to develop new oil fields . |
| 11 | Then , as lanterns start to glow on wooden balconies and red gleams fall through slatted screens , the stage gradually brightens to reveal a gaudy , tumultuous crowd in the pleasure district of seventeenth-century Osaka . |
| 12 | However , since management courses tend to concentrate on basic tasks and procedures , there is a risk that the much larger matters signalled here will be treated rudimentarily at best . |
| 13 | With just three thousand or so of the origional travellers left neighbouring police forces are on standby in case the travellers try to converge on another site to stage an impromtue festival this weekend . |
| 14 | In the final stage of the process , the children need to decide on some way of presenting their results . |
| 15 | European ministers fail to agree on environmental taxes |
| 16 | Nor does it carry much information about the clouds to Earth because the clouds fail to impress on this radiation many meaningful signatures . |
| 17 | Heavy women need to put on less weight than very thin mums-to-be . |
| 18 | The region is an important tier in allocating resources for health care but regional authorities have to rely on coarse-grained information such as death rates to decide the level of funding that should go to particular districts and services . |