Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] on the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television is such a visual medium that we all tend to concentrate on the images and not the words . |
| 2 | Tory vice-chairman Andrew Mitchell has written to all candidates asking if they want to remain on the list and requesting a new CV . |
| 3 | A more likely cause of restlessness and dissatisfaction among farm workers occurs when friends , neighbours and kin among the ‘ locals ’ cease to work on the land but commute from the village to nearby towns . |
| 4 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 5 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 6 | I try to turn on the lights but there has either been a power cut or the club 's generator has been switched off . |
| 7 | In general , pedestrians prefer to walk on the level and by direct routes . |
| 8 | If you throw a dead bird into the air it will describe a graceful parabola , exactly as physics books say it should , then come to rest on the ground and stay there . |
| 9 | They must be the pair who proposed to retire here one day , Meredith deduced , come to check on the property or possibly even to spend Christmas here . |
| 10 | Both at home and at school they usually have to remain on the floor and Alice does n't always remember to put them back in the bag . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's great news for us but now we have to concentrate on the football and try to achieve a good result , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Such as disaster may well result in the pondkeeper 's first introduction to fishkeeping periodicals and specialist clubs , when they really should have read up all they need to know on the subject and taken specialist advice beforehand . |
| 13 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 14 | Christ finally tells Judas : ‘ I have to die on the cross and I have to die willingly ’ . |
| 15 | If you ca n't rely on the private sector or exports to get the economy going , you need to rely on the Government and there is very little in this statement to reflect that policy . |
| 16 | I had never done anything like that in my life , but I found that having to do it was in the end very exciting because you have to rely on the Lord and he supplies help in unforgettable ways . |