Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our natural tendency to concentrate on what the program does and what appears on the screen can easily leave the class in the role of passive spectators , with exercises added almost as an afterthought . |
| 2 | Both the questionnaires and the structured interviews tend to concentrate on what the customer likes and dislikes , rather than why . |
| 3 | A third party coming into possession of confidential information is accordingly liable to be restrained from publishing it if he knows the information to be confidential and the circumstances are such as to impose on him an obligation in good conscience not to publish . |
| 4 | It is very important to give children room to think for themselves and not to impose on them a restricting interpretation of truth . |
| 5 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 6 | So Coffin had to work on him a bit first to get him to think laterally . |
| 7 | We had to work on it a great deal . |
| 8 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the B–17 at Duxford stands daily inviting visitors to reflect on what a 30 mission combat tour entailed for the men of the Mighty Eighth . |
| 10 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 11 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 12 | It is quite common in talking about teaching to focus on what the teacher does and to forget the effect this may have on the learner . |
| 13 | ‘ We have to focus on what the customer actually wants . |
| 14 | To focus on his no doubt sinewy power , |
| 15 | Really that was n't actually dis the staffing issues themselves were n't discussed , but just to recap on what the situation is with the staffing issues and what 's meant by that . |
| 16 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 17 | It was not in the circumstances a natural use of the land to plant on it a poisonous tree . |
| 18 | To do this , it is first necessary to see if it is possible to agree on what the crucial principles are that characterise both the original biological positivists and the proposed wider category . |
| 19 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 20 | It can be seen that pluralists tend to disagree on what the functions are , and even on their number . |
| 21 | He had , he said , advised the Shah to erect a hundred scaffold in Teheran and to hang on them a hundred people , starting with his former prime minister . |
| 22 | John C. Francis ( of the Athenaeum ) recorded that , ‘ I had occasion to call on him a short time before his death , when we joined in a hearty laugh over his former furious attacks upon the Athenaeum . |
| 23 | That 's the next step we st we may need to treat your tummy with something else after that but I think that 's rather go going to depend on what the chest X-ray shows , and how you feel . |
| 24 | He made a mental note to check on what the builder had been up to . |
| 25 | When I went up to check on him a few minutes ago , his bed was empty and cold ; it had n't been slept in . |
| 26 | I wanted to lay on him the burden of our fractured present . |
| 27 | In a later chapter , on the cult of the first edition , I shall have more to say on what a vital part the title-page can play . |
| 28 | For when God freely wills to take on Himself the world 's suffering , He does so in order to absorb it , to transform it and to overcome it by the positive power of His eternal and unchanging love . |
| 29 | Moreover , he intended to take on himself the national leadership of the party thus created , which would be called Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista ( FET y de las JONS ) . |
| 30 | This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title … |