Example sentences of "[vb past] on [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are the figures that the NFU found on making simple inquiries . |
| 2 | Although the French waterlily hybridiser Joseph Latour Marliac concentrated on producing hardy varieties it is believed that he used the semi tropical waterlily N. mexicana to create some of the popular varieties available today . |
| 3 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought my game was going to disappear so I just concentrated on getting solid pars and dropped only one more shot , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Unlike the employment White Paper , which concentrated on varying public investment to counterbalance changes in private investment and consumption , Beveridge wanted to regulate all three . |
| 6 | I just concentrated on making sure that it was comprehensive in terms of description and it was obvious from that description that certain choices and evaluations had been made . |
| 7 | Hence the PFA concentrated on making small gains . |
| 8 | It would be better if you concentrated on sewing some buttons on my shirts . |
| 9 | Criteria were divided between two types : primary ( child care ) criteria which concentrated on assessing familial circumstances likely to pertain if a child were to remain at home ; and secondary ( disclosure ) criteria which either substantiated or refuted children 's and young people 's disclosures . |
| 10 | Unisys concentrated on selling large proprietary mainframe computers , which cost several million pounds , and have a gross profit margin of 80 per cent . |
| 11 | Some of the most effective parts of the Marshall plan were precisely those which concentrated on improving public policy , company management , the use of investment , and output per person . |
| 12 | Born in Singapore thirty-one years ago , with a dash of French blood in his Asian veins , brought up on Hawaii , he did two years at the University of Hawaii , but concentrated on attending some of the tougher colleges of the North Shore before finally graduating from Pipeline and Sunset to take his PhD at Waimea in the early eighties . |
| 13 | He concentrated on attacking Dutch interests , claiming that ‘ Our opponent indeed already feels the earth tremble under his feet . ’ |
| 14 | I concentrated on keeping straight ( easy ) and feeling for the peak nose-up pitch that signified we were ready to lift onto the step ( more difficult ) . |
| 15 | However , as Herodotus remarked on finding Scythian artifacts in Delos , they may have ‘ diffused ’ . |
| 16 | Settlement was very sparse in the far north and north-east on the tundra , whose inhabitants relied on hunting migratory reindeer or sea mammals . |
| 17 | Instead they relied on forcing dry wedges of wood into existing cracks in the stone and pouring water on the wood to make it swell and eventually crack the stone . |
| 18 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 19 | Then he worked on gaining better control of the movements in his left knee . |
| 20 | This post is still vacant and anyone interested on becoming involved with the media is invited to contact Publicity Chairman — . |
| 21 | THE following morning dawned bright and warm and , being weary of towns , I settled on driving some way down the Rhine and then exploring one of the country roads . |
| 22 | The Western European Union ( WEU ) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) on July 10 agreed on policing UN-imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia by means of an air and sea operation in the Adriatic , although without authority to stop vessels suspected of breaking sanctions . |
| 23 | The trade of Leicester centred on handling local wool and leather — its craftsmen , headed by tailors and shoemakers , were mainly occupied in making cloth , clothing and footwear for local consumption . |
| 24 | I had a back pocket full of readies as I planned on doing some Christmas shopping while up West and I had no intention of joining the Christmas Eve rush to the lingerie departments of the big stores , so the first thing was to get away from the temptation of the HMV shop . |
| 25 | Members to be Males or Females and above the age of fifteen admitted on paying One Shilling to Treasurer . |
| 26 | He kept on doing one job . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it is often the case that writers do not allow themselves to be so free in autobiographical disclosures as to say exactly how they felt on seeing some work of art . |
| 28 | ‘ No way , ’ he said emphatically , and she could not deny the jolt of relief she felt on heating this . |
| 29 | In fact the Welfs could not get their letters through Philip 's lines and Philip was much stronger than Otto militarily and as time wore on attracting more of the princes to his cause . |
| 30 | He insisted on discussing practical details , as if they were planning a sale of work or an expedition . |