Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 possibly also they might not want to go on national television
2 Did you want to go on this side ?
3 On Oct. 10 at an extraordinary conference on combating racist violence , federal and Land interior and justice ministers failed to agree on appropriate measures .
4 When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation .
5 Signature of the treaty was preceded on Sept. 7 by a final session of the two-plus-four talks [ see also pp. 37659 ; 37535 ; 37466 ] at which ministers failed to agree on outstanding issues .
6 As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity .
7 Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that Santa 's address , the answer to Enigma 595c , failed to appear on 2 February with the rest of the answers to the Christmas Enigmas .
8 Even if , in the end , we have to agree to differ on some matters , grievances should be discussed , not camouflaged .
9 Which do you want to comment on first ?
10 Well I would n't want to comment on that because I do n't have the information to er to set against anything Mr .
11 Do you want to comment on that Mr or not ?
12 The Environmental Health Officer and Occupational Therapist will also want to comment on these plans , to give advice on whether the planned work is suitable and acceptable .
13 They seem to have this idea about natural talent and any kid who shows the slightest promise is put into sport and made to concentrate on that .
14 I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England .
15 Er all of you , all of you prioritising some sort of organisation and planning of revision , so I 've got some ideas that you might want to try on that score so first years , I 'm sure like Clare you must have some work to do .
16 The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion .
17 Unfortunately , most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details , sacrificing the overall picture .
18 Another criticism is that UK banks tend to concentrate on short-term lending , causing a shortage of long-term funds for investment .
19 Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws .
20 The tendency for current research to make use of multi-disciplinary approaches is increasing , although theses themselves tend to concentrate on smaller units of research .
21 However , since management courses tend to concentrate on basic tasks and procedures , there is a risk that the much larger matters signalled here will be treated rudimentarily at best .
22 I do not want to concentrate on procedural matters , but , as the hon. Gentleman said , it is curious that the Bill has not been introduced by the Government , especially as the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Bill has just completed its Committee stage .
23 I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht .
24 Outmoded this view might be , but most of us would still prefer to try on new clothes , wax hair off our legs , perform our ablutions or put on make-up in private .
25 This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics .
26 The sad fact is that the vast majority are failing to realise their evangelistic potential , preferring to concentrate on spiritual nurture of the existing group members .
27 Based in Paris and working under Professor I. Rasool , it is intended to concentrate on managerial and policy aspects of the task in the first 2 years ( 1990–92 ) but then to expand considerably thereafter .
28 Do we need to proceed on this now .
29 His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains .
30 This integrating process needs to go on all the time , whatever is happening or being studied .
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