Example sentences of "[verb] on [num] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 2 | Clough 's rock-bottom Forest have not won away all season , Coppell 's second-to-bottom Palace have not tasted victory at home — but both managers can count on one thing … their jobs are safe as houses . |
| 3 | I think last year more or less shows that we really have to concentrate on one thing . |
| 4 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 5 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 6 | Pencil , I know you could n't concentrate on three things ! |
| 7 | MANY mothers agreed with Helen Bullock that men can only focus on one thing at a time . |
| 8 | Cameron was resolved on one thing . |
| 9 | Equitability depends on two things , the original equitability of the small mammal fauna and the degree of predator selectivity . |
| 10 | The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another . |
| 11 | Whether or not we perceive an event in the world around us depends on three things . |
| 12 | How they do this depends on three things : their initial purpose , their potential audience , and the nature of the information they have . |
| 13 | As the row rages on one thing is for sure — shoppers who plump for plums this summer will be spoilt for choice . |
| 14 | Thatcher 's great advantage is this laser sight which fixes in a very narrow , straight beam on one thing at a time . ’ |
| 15 | The world 's top eight fit men players arrived in Frankfurt last night agreed on one thing — any one of them could become the 1992 IBM ATP World Champion over the next six days . |
| 16 | At the three courts of Lothar , Louis and Charles , the primores populi agreed on one thing : there was to be no repeat of Fontenoy . |
| 17 | Yet Acheson and Eisenhower were agreed on one thing . |
| 18 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 19 | It is interesting to note that the local Party cell 's initial report for January , that is , prior to the central decree of 16 February on church valuables , already concentrates on two things — possible rifts within the Church , and the flow of ecclesiastical monies . |
| 20 | To avoid confusion we need some sort of structure which allows us to focus on one thing at a time . |
| 21 | Chomsky states that grammar must be based on two things : observation of language ability to satisfy the native speaker 's intuition about his language For example , it must be able to account for the native speaker 's intuition that active or passive sentences are related to each other ; that some pairs of sentences , though alike on the surface , are different at a deeper level . |
| 22 | RAIN or shine , for more than 2.5 billion years living organisms could always depend on one thing : gravity . |
| 23 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |
| 24 | He had n't concentrated on one thing for years now as he had when he 'd started collecting stamps at the age of nine , so careful , so worried , so never leaving anything for a minute that could be done straight away by him . |
| 25 | The anger in this issue is concentrated on two things . |
| 26 | Decide on three things about yourself that you would like to change and tackle them calmly one at a time . |
| 27 | And , of course , talk of cost must never overlook what are known as opportunity costs : time , effort , and money spent on one thing necessarily means a lost opportunity to spend them on something else , which may be of just as much value . |
| 28 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 29 | They all agreed on one thing , however . |
| 30 | However rich or famous her lovers are , Carla , who admits she has been AIDS-tested , insists on one thing — safe sex . |