Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's build on the good news , that Heseltine and Cook understand the need for a national industrial strategy . |
| 2 | He 's not saying we should explode on the slightest provocation . |
| 3 | Finally , we should comment on the relative abundance of ozone and hydrogen peroxide at Cape Grim . |
| 4 | He 's at Baden Baden today and should remain on the winning trail . |
| 5 | He 's at Baden Baden today and should remain on the winning trail . |
| 6 | HAVING watched Carrick Rangers through the years from as far back as the B Division days I feel I must comment on the pathetic lack of support given to the manager by the board . |
| 7 | 16.22 • Reading activities should build on the oral language and experiences which pupils bring from home . |
| 8 | Next year 's R21 replacement should build on the clear thinking and design flair established with the Clio and consolidate the middle markets won by the revamped R19 . |
| 9 | Does she agree that we should build on the remarkable achievement of the Kazakhstani people who , before the break-up of the Soviet Union , succeeded in closing the main nuclear test site in Kazakhstan ? |
| 10 | Richards believes his 38-year-old player-boss should concentrate on the managerial side . |
| 11 | The same problem arises with Bruner 's injunction that the curriculum should concentrate on the essential structure of a subject . |
| 12 | An acquirer should concentrate on the discounted value of the acquired bank 's cash flow . |
| 13 | We must focus on the profitable deployment of every aspect of that asset base . ’ |
| 14 | The debate must focus on the key issue of what good practice means in this school . |
| 15 | To be fully effective , managers must concentrate on the total organisation and environmental changes instead of on artificial internal segments . |
| 16 | The study suggests that farmers should capitalise on the general public 's interest in conservation and green issues by considering plans to encourage wildlife , allow public access and use the farm environment as a resource for guests . |
| 17 | A notice must appear on the daily order paper under the heading ‘ at the commencement of public business ’ . |
| 18 | Maintaining this configuration requires that the state apparatus should operate with a considerable degree of autonomy from the dominant class fraction , and that the leaders who assemble and co-ordinate the ruling ‘ power bloc ’ should appear on the political stage as independent actors . |
| 19 | Jump onto the lift to your right , then on the second lift , and finally onto a platform ( watch out for the bare wires ) , climb down the site of this second building if you wish to collect a couple of records , but it 's quicker and safer to climb up the purple wall above you and climb the four ladders , grab the crate and jump onto the platform on your left , kill the mugger , climb the ladder and grab another crate , climb another ladder , then another kill the workman in the process , run across to the right , jump before you touch the wire and you should land on the next platform . |
| 20 | But skipper Mark Wright believes they should look on the bright side of the draws at Ipswich and Leeds — despite throwing away a win in each game . |
| 21 | She should look on the bright side , she kept trying to tell herself . |
| 22 | It was designed for the struggle which , as I feared , was before us ; between the two European tendencies which Napoleon I called Republican and Cossack , and which I , according to our present ideas , should designate on the one side as the system of order on a monarchical basis , and on the other as the social republic to the level of which the antimonarchical development is wont to sink , either slowly or by leaps and bounds , until the conditions thus created become intolerable , and the disappointed populace are ready for a violent return to monarchical institutions in a Caesarean form . |
| 23 | A national investment board should decide on the overall level of investment to preserve full employment , and deficit spending was advocated if it were necessary to prevent unemployment . |
| 24 | It was far too hot to wear one but an interview demanded the formality , although why his authority as a questioner should depend on the smallest degree on what he was wearing he could not say . |
| 25 | The type of vitamin taken should depend on the general state of health of the individual and the type of diet he follows . |
| 26 | One can speak loosely of a ‘ non-fullerene cluster ’ , but there is likely to be a variety of such clusters and the collapse size must depend on the chemical bonding in the cluster . |
| 27 | In the words of Lord Greene in Davies v Collins [ 1945 ] 1 All ER 247 : Whether or not in any given contract performance can properly be carried out by the employment of a sub-contractor , must depend on the proper inference to be drawn from the contract itself , the subject matter of it and other material surrounding circumstances . |
| 28 | Then he must decide on the appropriate response , which is a legal , as well as a medical , decision . |
| 29 | as if conscious of the damaging effect this group must have on the imagined relationship between the Poet and the Friend , damaging to the Poet and damaging to the reader 's view of both the Friend and the Poet ( ‘ why does he persevere ? ’ readers may ask in some irritation when confronted with such a catalogue of the Friend 's faults ) , Shakespeare sets matters even by writing what seems to be a related group where the Poet describes his own faults ( 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 ; 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 ) . |
| 30 | Now it is time for the new generation born in the wilderness to cross the Jordan , and to begin to take possession of the Land , led not by Moses , of course , since he must die on the wrong side of the river , but by Joshua . |