Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 2 | They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town . |
| 3 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |
| 4 | Even one so buttoned-down as Senator Al Gore trembles to consider that if he made a full-out run at Pennsylvania Avenue , every part of his private life would be scrutinized for the sort of improprieties that cause lips to purse out on the Plains . |
| 5 | a way of allowing readers to focus just on the appearance of logical objects , but authors to be aware of them as structural entities . |
| 6 | What must we do to get our supporters to turn out on the day ? |
| 7 | Feminism 's frequently uncritical emphasis on empathy and understanding may even intensify the tendency of such methods to depend implicitly on the psychologist , and to be influenced by dominant discourses of gender without recognizing them . |
| 8 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |
| 9 | It has been found that regular use of some 2 in 1 's can cause ingredients to build up on the hair shaft which may affect the results of a perm or colour . |
| 10 | This enabled the banks to pull out on the grounds that involvement was not commercially justifiable . |
| 11 | In fact erm there are now , you could say , too many teachers in the system overall , and that 's why there are new proposals erm both in the colleges and in the universities to cut back on the number of teachers that are being trained . |
| 12 | Police inquiry desks in Darlington will be staffed by civilians rather than policemen , leaving more officers to go out on the beat , if the Chief Constable of County Durham gets his way . |
| 13 | there should be a requirement for firms to report quarterly on the adequacy of their financial resources ; |
| 14 | The problem was that OpenForum ‘ 92 was originally intended to be an exhibition as well , and the relatively late decision by the organisers to focus more on the conference side was not communicated clearly enough to some of the exhibiting vendors . |
| 15 | It has a more compact cellular structure so it is difficult for moisturisers to work well on the epidermis . |
| 16 | Drugs movies such as Naked Lunch and My Own Private Idaho seem in many ways to play deliberately on the similarities between drug experience and watching a film : both of these are clearly just as much concerned with seeing wonderful things in the dark as they are with falling apart under pressure . |
| 17 | Hammond Wilde had been adamant that if a tie for first place forced a ‘ sudden death ’ play-off he would not allow the leaders to disappear out on the course . |
| 18 | They should not consist of invitations to comment directly on the policies of other parties in the House , for which the Prime Minister has no responsibility . |
| 19 | The choice would be whether to draw one pair of curtains to stack back on the walls beside the windows , thus exposing the corner , or to have two separate pairs of curtains that draw from the centre of each window and thereby cover the corner area with fabric . |
| 20 | The Home Secretary Michael Howard has announced measures to cut down on the amount of police paperwork and put more officers back onto the streets . |
| 21 | Each sequence lasts around seven minutes and enables students to focus clearly on the business problem . |
| 22 | NEW LAWS to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland were ‘ nodded through ’ without dissent in the Commons yesterday . |
| 23 | There were also some complicated sleeping arrangements to juggle : all Emma 's friends were to stay in the ‘ commun ’ while most of the rest of the young people brought sleeping bags and pillows to put down on the marquee floor . |
| 24 | They are not anxious for others to get in on the act . |
| 25 | This dematerialisation is taken a stage further when his soul becomes like a bird which can fly away , completely freeing itself from society or any distractions to concentrate solely on the contemplation of itself . |
| 26 | The regional affairs commissioner , Bruce Millan , also announced intentions to tighten up on the EC 's additionality principle — the rule that EC spending must be additional to planned national government spending . |