Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 2 | That 's our problem , that , that 's what we 're really going to home on first of all . |
| 3 | They 're really going to town on these pavements are n't they ? |
| 4 | Student members of the HCIMA on appropriate courses ( see under students heading ) are automatically upgraded to licentiateship on successful completion of their studies . |
| 5 | I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it . |
| 6 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 7 | Disarmament , for example , is sometimes said to hinge on apparently technical problems such as the comparability of forces , or the possibility of verification . |
| 8 | Usage of the term ‘ competitive intelligence ’ is sometimes restricted to information on the companies , industries , products and services comprising the firm 's competitive situation ( but also including suppliers , buyers , potential entrants , substitutes à la Porter ) . |
| 9 | The jury heard how a social worker was horrifically knifed to death on a late-night train . |
| 10 | In 1746 , for example , William Grant , who in spite of his seemingly humble occupation of carpenter was the son of an Inverness-shire laird , chose a particularly inconvenient moment to take leave from the service of the Hudson 's Bay Company and return to Scotland , for he was promptly committed to prison on suspicion of treason when he reached Scotland during the turmoil occasioned by the Jacobite Rising . |
| 11 | In some of these respects ( such as improvisation , or blue tonality and pitch inflection ) it was more suited to transmission on recordings than in notation . |