Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
| 2 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 3 | With the help of the ESRC , the Yorkshire Dales National Park hope to transform countryside interpretation into an active and creative means of bringing landowners , policymakers and the public together to work on the best way to manage one of the great scenic treasures of northern England , yet maintain a healthy rural economy . |
| 4 | However , as before , No 7819 started in spectacular fashion only to falter on the latter part of the climb . |
| 5 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 6 | However , what an owner sees as his due rights may be seen by others as undue privilege ; and where the general interest is material enough to insist on the second alternative , it may with whatever necessary degree of consideration and justice , seek to override the first . |
| 7 | Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech . |
| 8 | If you think about it , as you were n't strong enough to respond on the first round , you can hardly want to redouble now to play . |
| 9 | Ronan 's portrayal of a faintly mad Irish family is just barbed enough to stay on the tougher side of sentimental , his narrative of a friendship 's slow demise uncomfortably convincing . |
| 10 | Although provision is made for the acquisition of such rights under the Telecommunications Code ( Telecommunications Act 1984 , Sched 2 ) , it is unwise merely to rely on the statutory machinery . |
| 11 | On several occasions he left the bathroom feeling weak and drained , only to stop on the dark landing at the onset of another wave of nausea . |
| 12 | With the axe soon to fall on the Unlisted Securities Market , CISCO seeks to promote the importance of the smaller public company . |
| 13 | Just to comment on the senior inspector 's first point . |
| 14 | We now have the opportunity to move out of the hotel and to rent the house of a Professor of Biology , and thus to save on the high cost of the hotel . |
| 15 | Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools . |
| 16 | I have nothing further to say on the green pages . |
| 17 | He went straight to work on the swollen sheep , and managed to save almost all of them . |
| 18 | Turn left to continue on the main route . |
| 19 | Innocent began now to concentrate on the imperial bishops and on securing practical support for Otto , who in turn was exhorted to assume a manly attitude and in short " to live up to " the title to which he had been called . |
| 20 | ‘ Now to look on the bright side of ffeatherstonehaugh 's , I 've a few more lines of Rochester for you : |
| 21 | The reshaping of Virgin 's musical policy over the past three years , under Simon Draper 's direction , had positioned the record label perfectly to capitalise on the new developments in pop . |
| 22 | There is no time now to spend on the lengthy process of building flesh and bone . |
| 23 | With macari 's arrival on hold again , Frank Connor will take the players to Seamill tomorrow to concentrate on the European business in hand . |
| 24 | However , one will do well to reflect on the following remark of Bentham ( of which some of the second part of this work might be seen as an endorsement ) . |
| 25 | I take photographs at this stage simply to decide on the basic composition , as this saves much time . |
| 26 | We reject the compulsory route that is favoured by the Labour party , which will never understand that the way forward is to motivate and to encourage and to give people the incentives that they need to make the most of the opportunities that are available to them , not simply to rely on the dead hand of compulsion . |
| 27 | Because it does mean then that that traffic er on the western side of Harrogate can get out to the western relief road as there 's no need then to go on the urban roads in Harrogate . |
| 28 | They were rocket propelled bombs with wings that enabled them to be launched and to fly in a straight line until the rocket fuel was used up , then to fall on the unfortunate people and buildings below . |
| 29 | The Chancellor fought hard to improve on the initial proposals put to ECOFIN , but he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back . |
| 30 | Though he had yet to appear on the dim-lit stage , I knew he was going to come for Kingsley Amis . |