Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] on the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is my duty to report to you , the members — effectively shareholders — on our financial year just passed , in terms of financial results , significant events and to comment on the health and future prospects of the Association . |
| 2 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 3 | This presents gaps in the text which surprise at first , but then allow the imagination to intervene and to draw on the richness and depth of the images to fill the spaces with one 's own interpretation . |
| 4 | The most valuable of the representations that I have had on manufacturing industry is the excellent report from the manufacturing advisory group of the CBI , which hails the resurgence in manufacturing that began in the 1980s and calls on us to continue and to build on the policies that brought that about . |
| 5 | ‘ A most telling stream of miracles ’ is related , and the King is recorded as having prophesied ‘ the Satanic horror of all those human rebellions against the Crown which were to rise , no longer in the British Isles , but in America and in France from the end of the XVIII century , and to develop on the Continent as well as in Africa and Asia during the XIX and XX centuries ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Honestly , how they get away with such stuff — it 's bad enough they take a large commission , but to sit on the money as long as they do … ’ |
| 7 | By road take the motorway N1 heading west from Bern , taking care in 12km ( 7 ½miles ) not to take the exit for Kerzers and Neuchatel but to continue on the motorway as it curves south and becomes an ordinary national road a short distance from Murten Murten lies beside the lake which bears its name , close to the linguistic frontier between French and German speech . |
| 8 | The driver , travelling at some eighty kilometres per hour , had little alternative but to stand on the brakes and swing the bus hard right . |