Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [to-vb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got to concentrate on financial control , on your customer and on your people . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I 've got work to do and you 've got to stay on that bed . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said . |
| 4 | The national park covers an astonishing 840 square miles — I 've tended to concentrate on northern Snowdonia and even there have barely scraped the surface . |
| 5 | I 've had to take on more staff at the workshop in Killearn . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , this idea that the police had more more money , yes they have had more money , what , what er , has been very conveniently ignored is the enormous amount of money we 've had to spend on special protection duties . |
| 7 | The fact that certain regions in the UK have come to depend on declining industries explains in part the regional disparities of unemployment which we referred to in Chapter 3 . |
| 8 | Such investigations have tended to concentrate on linguistic traits which may not necessarily be artistically relevant , such as range of vocabulary sentence length or frequency of certain conjunctions on the principle that a writer 's genuine " thumbprint " is more likely to be found in unobtrusive habits beyond conscious artistic control . |
| 9 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 10 | ‘ In some areas we have had to put on special courses to prepare students for A-level . ’ |
| 11 | In the past , hatcheries have had to rely on live feed , which is as unreliable and expensive to harvest from nature as it is to grow artificially . |
| 12 | Researchers in other areas with an interest in the effects of emotional arousal on memory have had to rely on staged events , rare occurrences or laboratory analogues . |
| 13 | Until now , we have had to rely on casual contacts with groups , annual reports and occasional documents , in order to tell us what Age Concern groups are doing . |
| 14 | Relative to the other opportunities that I have had to speak on such occasions , however , this is a lower grade privilege because the Bill has been extremely boring . |
| 15 | This Welcome break restaurant has suffered such a drop in trade that staff have agreed to work on short time , with a cut in wages , to try and keep it going until the bridge reopens . |
| 16 | Various initiatives have emerged to capitalise on this system |
| 17 | So the dinosaurs could in theory have continued to pile on genetic advantages . |
| 18 | But the couple , now both retired , have learned to lean on each other for support as they continue to grieve for their youngest child . |
| 19 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 20 | All further talks have failed to improve on that figure . ’ |
| 21 | I have chosen to focus on three types of support which help us to address this question : sharing a household , money and practical support . |
| 22 | Few can afford to compete everywhere , and many have chosen to concentrate on those businesses and markets they know best . |
| 23 | Although there are many complex factors in anorexia , I have chosen to concentrate on this sense of self-hatred and dissatisfaction with her body and image ; on those areas which are directly about the question : ‘ How do I look ? ’ |