Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both would shout at the other down the telephone so much that Laura , fascinated by the interaction of her staff , used to worry on occasion that they were not ‘ getting on ’ . |
| 2 | They tend to concentrate on policies that would help women follow the same age-related career path as men . |
| 3 | However , thanks to the ‘ core plus options ’ structure of the Associateship course , introduced as a result of the recommendations of the Wilkinson Committee , individual candidates are not expected to become ‘ Jacks of all trades ’ , but are able to concentrate on specialisms that are in keeping with their own career aspirations and their employers ' needs . |
| 4 | ( ii ) They should be given opportunities to write on topics that are intrinsically demanding in terms of their subject matter . |
| 5 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 6 | That is an unfair responsibility to impose on institutions that will not want to retain holdings in all 10 authorities . |
| 7 | Next refused to comment on reports that it might abandon its hardware business altogether . |
| 8 | In December 1989 officials refused to comment on reports that nine men arrested by police in August had been spying for Singapore . |
| 9 | BUCKINGHAM Palace yesterday refused to comment on reports that the Princess Royal is pregnant . |
| 10 | Under their memorandum of understanding , Cox will take an initial 25% in the UK operations currently owned by Southwestern Bell , with options to increase its stake ; Cox declined to comment on speculation that the deal was worth $300m . |
| 11 | But he refused to comment on speculation that it was the home of a former girlfriend of Mr McEvoy . |
| 12 | For a while the French government maintained a stony silence about the affair , claiming it was beneath its dignity to comment on allegations that the DGSE had been involved . |
| 13 | HANSON , the industrial conglomerate headed by Lord Hanson , yesterday declined to comment on rumours that it is planning to sell its Ever Ready battery subsidiary . |
| 14 | Dunhill 's chairman , Lord Douro ( the future Duke of Wellington ) , was on holiday yesterday and so unable to comment on rumours that Sarajane Hoare will act as Lagerfeld 's assistant . |
| 15 | But Heinz boss Tony O'Reilly 's Independent Newspapers refused to comment on rumours that he has further increased his stake in the Mirror above the 1.3 per cent he has already bought . |
| 16 | Where leave was given , it was not uncommon to find on investigation that there were no grounds for granting any relief . |
| 17 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 18 | The so-called deputies ' science and technology working group was asked to nominate people within their agencies to serve on panels that will develop policies for 15 topics ranging from specific issues such as medical technology to basic research itself . |
| 19 | A variety of finger food can be introduced for them to suck and usually they start to chew on ones that they prefer during the second half of the first year . |
| 20 | But there were indications that Mr Gorbachev feels compromised and personally let down by President Bush after their talks in Malta earlier this month , when both leaders undertook to consult on actions that could undermine international stability . |
| 21 | ‘ My job now is to focus on areas that yield business and pare down initiatives that have not been fruitful . |
| 22 | After nine years as Opposition leader , Mr Kinnock , 50 , is expected to announce on Monday that he will not put his name forward for re-election at the party 's annual conference . |
| 23 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 24 | If continued , you may enter the third phase in which you are having to draw on resources that are actually necessary to support the level of competence that you normally can display . |
| 25 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 26 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 27 | Composites , which have attracted takeover speculation , were inclined to ease on disappointment that Pearl had been targeted . |
| 28 | It is only fair to our advertisers to put on record that , pretty well without exception , they have a lively appreciation of and respect for the constraints under which an Institute journal necessarily operates . |
| 29 | In fact , it is just starting to dawn on Washington that neither NAFTA nor substantial welfare reform can pass Congress without Republican support . |
| 30 | It was beginning to dawn on Hoomey that horses like this — surely ? — were going to need quite a lot of attention , feeding , brushing and all that stuff . |