Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years the station scientists did little research on these introduced species , probably because no one could foresee the possibility of eradicating them . |
| 2 | And Street is sure that the Premmia range can only build on this success . |
| 3 | I can only build on this hill . ’ |
| 4 | It could be argued that the requirement of regularity is unduly restrictive and reflects the rationale of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , namely , the additional duties imposed on suppliers should only fall on those who can , because of the regularity of their dealings , be expected to have some competence in relation to the goods supplied . |
| 5 | This section will therefore only touch on some of the techniques which have become better understood as the result of scientific research . |
| 6 | We will only touch on some of these sectors here and will certainly not attempt any detailed analysis . |
| 7 | States can not entirely depend on such measures , however , and must make provision for their own defence . |
| 8 | However , this is all rather analytical and intellectual ; and if we ourselves can only function on this rational level , our communication with horses will be no better than a tourist who needs a phrase book or dictionary in a foreign country . |
| 9 | Even if a document such as a catalogue or price list is not an offer in law , there is no reason why it can not set out the terms of the offer , for instance by indicating that the party who issues it will only contract on those terms . |
| 10 | that erm , people do n't necessarily go on this , but er , it 's probably more or less typical of rural areas , where , where people just do n't feel that there 's any hope here . |
| 11 | She could only rely on that , his wearying before she did . |
| 12 | We can only rely on each other , and we may as well get one thing straight here and now , Dr Blake . |
| 13 | Thus when we see the often remarkable similarity between the principles of the Godwinians and of Bloomsbury , and the external relations implied by these — a rational and tolerant group wishing to extend reason and tolerance , where necessary by radical reform — we find also that we can not stay on this level , since the actual external relations were also determined by others . |
| 14 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd rather not comment on that , ’ he says . |
| 16 | I can not comment on that case . |
| 17 | No , I can not comment on that , but it is relevant to the contract negotiations for Trident 08 — we must protect the public Exchequer precisely from the problem of a monopoly single buyer . |
| 18 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
| 19 | ‘ But I can not comment on any suggestion that he was worried about his exams in any way . ’ |
| 20 | Yesterday company spokesman Andrew Lincoln said he could not comment on any individual case until he had investigated . |
| 21 | The Treasury will not comment on any possible tax changes prior to the Budget . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a matter of policy that we do not comment on any private correspondence which has been sent to the national secretary . ’ |
| 23 | Although Pearson managing director Frank Barlow would not comment on either of these projects , Asia is certainly an area of expanding interest for Longman ( see facing page ) . |
| 24 | Cantril died in 1969 and so can not comment on this phenomenon . |
| 25 | Officials would not comment on this suggestion , even to deny it . |
| 26 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 27 | Golfers often state that they can not concentrate on all their swing ideas at the same time . |
| 28 | If military methods were as aimless as they may appear , should we not concentrate on those moments , perhaps the decisive moments , of violent action when the armies of the two sides clashed in battles which have become part of national myth ? |
| 29 | Some studies they suggest may have failed to detect an effect of parity because they did not concentrate on this risk period . |
| 30 | But the West can not count on that . |