Example sentences of "[verb] on a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night Dr Clarke 's election agent Kevin Scott said : ‘ One of our supporters lives in Vine Street and Donald and I went knocking on a few doors . |
| 2 | So in our search for innovation we decided , without much conviction , to concentrate on a few of the rapidly developing fields , that is on the current fashions such as biotechnology , new materials , lasers and the like , but the emphasis was to be on supporting the research whose main objective was to improve understanding in these fields rather than on products . |
| 3 | Toscanini was clearly very much in tune with Mendelssohn 's music , but as in the case of other composers he tended to concentrate on a few scores , and not always those which were best . |
| 4 | In May 1977 the policy was amended , when it was decided to concentrate on a few tourist growth points in areas of rural depopulation where there was unrealized tourist potential . |
| 5 | Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties . |
| 6 | They moved on a few steps , again stood together , and wrote , " Angry . |
| 7 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 8 | I will , therefore , concentrate on a few problem shapes and situations . |
| 9 | Teaching requirements ensure that within any department there will be expertise in all of these fields , but research interests will inevitably concentrate on a few aspects . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that it is tremendous that the Australian Wine Bureau is offering so many people the chance to play tennis competitively at great venues and I am looking forward to passing on a few tips to the winners — before joining them in a celebratory glass of Australian wine . ’ |
| 11 | We put on a few and I knew I was finishing , so I thought I would try to go out with a bang by breaking the pavilion window in the Long Room . |
| 12 | And , indeed , when Indian ink was daubed on a few minnows , which were then put among a school , the painted minnows were disproportionately taken by predators . |
| 13 | Even with the advantages of other income sources , studios depend on a few hits to pay for a large number of duds . |
| 14 | Steve Richardson passes on a few tips on how to lower your scores by improving your on-course tactics . |
| 15 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 16 | However , the violence and sex-fiend theme does emerge on a few occasions . |
| 17 | Later and larger basilicas were roofed with concrete vaults which rested on a few , very large piers . |
| 18 | They built hub-and-spoke route systems based on a few large airports , rather than a web of direct , non-stop flights . |
| 19 | I do not suppose , for instance , that Brian Way imagined that teachers would adopt a ‘ shopping-list ’ method of conducting lessons based on a few arbitrarily chosen activities strung together for children to respond to in rapid succession . |
| 20 | Our company is based on sound and we stand or fall on it ; since the introduction of Smooth Tubes we have never been busier and it is insulting and naive to suggest our success is based on a few LEDs . |
| 21 | The initial long list should be based on a few key criteria . |
| 22 | The initial long list should be based on a few key criteria . |
| 23 | ‘ Just think , ’ he told her , ‘ you could treat yourself to a trip down Bond Street and splurge on a few trinkets and some new clothes for your wardrobe . ’ |
| 24 | He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 25 | You could afford to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 26 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 27 | He saw me standing there waiting in the warm light from the cafe and hesitated a second , then walked on a few paces , then stopped and looked back . |
| 28 | Durbeyfield walked on a few steps in a dream , then sat down with his basket . |
| 29 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
| 30 | However , the concerts may not be as thick on the ground as in previous years because the province 's main promoters have had their fingers burnt on a few occasions during festival season and they are not taking any big risks for the remainder of the year . |