Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to compete effectively in world markets and to communicate on equal terms with our European partners we need to increase substantially the numbers of young people leaving school with a good grounding in at least one foreign language . |
| 2 | Surprisingly though , the wildlife seems to flourish on these ranges , despite the firing of live ammunition . |
| 3 | The lower-ranking mandarins who agreed to work as interpreters were rewarded with big tracts of good rice-growing land in the Mekong delta , and the idea soon began to catch on that collaborating paid . |
| 4 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 5 | As he turned and looked into her eyes he knew instinctively there was no need to worry on that score . |
| 6 | Only as the client is thoroughly involved and comes to accept on deepening levels the process of change can our methods be effective in relation to our goals ( Bernstein , 1960 , p. 8 ) . |
| 7 | Certainly he trained at Bologna and was a doctor of civil law by c .1270 , when he was invited to lecture on civil law for a year by the city of Modena in northern Italy . |
| 8 | Through her efforts a mission hall was built , where she started to lecture on moral purity . |
| 9 | ‘ But all politicians we invite are asked to lecture on historical topics , giving totally fresh and unique outlooks on the issues addressed . |
| 10 | To start the exchange we have to suggest a list of possible topics , but we also feel confident that we could should be able to lecture on any topic , any scientific topic , to , for instance , third form children certainly . |
| 11 | In an effort to make life more interesting for our younger members of staff and our graduate element , I have been inviting past students back to lecture on any aspect of their current work . |
| 12 | The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion . |
| 13 | Outmoded this view might be , but most of us would still prefer to try on new clothes , wax hair off our legs , perform our ablutions or put on make-up in private . |
| 14 | Er all of you , all of you prioritising some sort of organisation and planning of revision , so I 've got some ideas that you might want to try on that score so first years , I 'm sure like Clare you must have some work to do . |
| 15 | US President George Bush had announced on Aug. 11 that he had recommended that the US Treasury should provide guarantees to allow Israel to obtain on favourable terms credits worth US$10,000 million from private banks . |
| 16 | One contender is the SQL Access Group , which was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 17 | One contender is the product that the SQL Access Group was formed to produce : the group was set up by database vendors to standardise on one SQL dialect . |
| 18 | Labour 's electoral college is due to meet on 18 July . |
| 19 | The Co-ordinating Commission was summoned to meet on 3 July , just twelve days after Paul 's election . |
| 20 | Councillors were due to meet on 25 April to consider the matter — no easy task when hundreds of letters , suggesting numerous solutions , have been sent . |
| 21 | This rulemaking exercise will be undertaken by the preparatory Commission for the ISA and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ( PREPCOM ) , which is due to meet on 15 March in Jamaica . |
| 22 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 23 | The Lothian Region ( Placing in Schools ) Appeal Committee is likely to meet on several occasions during late May and throughout June 1993 , to deal with appeals against refused placing requests for admission to primary and secondary schools for the session 1993/94 . |
| 24 | What is more , co-operative R&D ventures may provide a forum in which firms learn to co-operate and collude with each on a wider basis , particularly if they create well-defined strategic groups that bring peer-group pressure to bear on each other whenever incentives to cheat appear . |
| 25 | This may have partly contributed to the next important influence which has been brought to bear on hearing children read — the move towards parental involvement . |
| 26 | The Research Group has identified more than 130 academic staff across almost all Faculties whose current research extends to a greater or lesser degree to environmental issues ; and many more have expertise which could be brought to bear on environmental problems . |
| 27 | The Regional Sports Councils ' resources consist of MONEY ( through regional participation grants for specific projects ) , INFLUENCE ( brought to bear on other agencies ) and TIME ( in terms of sports council personnel ) . |
| 28 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 29 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 30 | In view of the statement made by the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary that terrorist movements can be destroyed very effectively from within , will the Secretary of State consult his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to ensure that the full weight of the intelligence services is brought to bear on all terrorist movements within the United Kingdom ? |