Example sentences of "[to-vb] on those [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stake in National Power or PowerGen to bring pressure to bear on those companies to reduce the development of gas-fired stations , they might end up in a United Kingdom court for breaking United Kingdom company law . |
| 2 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 3 | Few can afford to compete everywhere , and many have chosen to concentrate on those businesses and markets they know best . |
| 4 | We will now have to concentrate on those areas where we can best create value for our shareholders . ’ |
| 5 | He also had the good judgement to concentrate on those cases in which his pea plants could be classified into one of two distinct classes , with no intermediates . |
| 6 | The title and format might lead the casual observer into expecting just another general text ; but closer inspection reveals that the book assumes some basic knowledge of the subject and then goes on to concentrate on those aspects of geology of most direct relevance to society — seismic and volcanic hazards , landslides , erosion , subsidence , groundwater , and so on . |
| 7 | The adjudication officer is then asked to respond and the claimant is given an opportunity to comment on those responses . |
| 8 | It should have the right to initiate legislation for consideration by the Commission and the Committee of Ministers in addition to its existing right to comment on those bodies ' legislative proposals . |
| 9 | The House of Lords , while accepting that some elements of natural justice could apply to investigations and preliminary determinations , held that an opportunity to see the counter-statement was not required : no final decision was being made and if the taxpayer could comment on the counter-statement the Commissioners would wish to comment on those comments , thereby producing an endless succession of exchanges , bringing the administration to a standstill . |
| 10 | the point about membership is that you ought to be able to comment on those suggestions of change and get involved with them on a broad basis . |
| 11 | These are just the descriptions , but the file names would be useful to appear on those ends of those boxes as well . |
| 12 | She said we 're going to decorate on those days . |
| 13 | There is a list of new ‘ legal-specific ’ features to make Ami Pro more suitable as a word processor for those working on contracts , case law and other specialised applications but it would be misleading to dwell on those aspects and not mention facilities that are not new but are still exciting extras . |
| 14 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 15 | At the Middle English stage , the description of divergence is still very salient ( partly because the states attested in writing are unquestionably divergent states ) , but we also begin to notice attempts to launder the data retrospectively in such a way as to focus on those features that lead to modern ‘ standard ’ English and to ignore , reject or explain away those features that deviate from it . |
| 16 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 17 | So which rhythm pattern are you going to put on those notes in bar ten ? |
| 18 | Teacher development has to build on those constructs which exist , and can not easily be promoted in any other way . |
| 19 | If the buyer uses a form provided by the seller , for instance , in the seller 's catalogue , that form can refer to the seller 's terms and will amount to an offer to contract on those terms . |
| 20 | And the panel 's role is to report on those issues . |
| 21 | I usually took the opportunity to teach on those occasions . |
| 22 | But it was fatal to think on those lines . |
| 23 | It was hateful to have to be like that , and usually she did not allow herself to think on those lines , but it was there and had to be recognized as a factor . |
| 24 | What Mr Hurd had done ‘ is not to work out what he believes are essential categories and decide to legislate on those categories . |
| 25 | Er , they believe er that it will be possible to improve on those prices in negotiation with the suppliers . |
| 26 | However , whilst it is impossible to guarantee that a business 's terms will be incorporated into all its contracts , if a business takes care to adopt proper contract formation procedures , it can maximise the chances of its terms being incorporated into its contracts , and therefore its chances of being able to rely on those terms should any dispute arise . |
| 27 | Those who were too shy or too inexperienced to pray on those occasions would meet together on a Saturday night to read , to pray and to prepare themselves for the following Sabbath day . |
| 28 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |