Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is likely to concentrate on the 200 metres this year before moving up to 400 metres as a second-year senior boy next year . |
| 2 | His response is to impress upon them that the time is not now , that only God knows when it will be , and in the meantime they are to concentrate on the number-one task of world-wide witness for which the Holy Spirit would equip them ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 3 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 4 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 5 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 6 | Having put these levers in their basic positions , you are free to concentrate on the three ribber controls that you 'll be using all the time . |
| 7 | He declined to comment on the 1973 Roe v. Wade judgment — the landmark case which had established the right of women to have abortions — on the grounds that , if his nomination was confirmed , he would be required to consider the matter and did not wish to prejudge it . |
| 8 | I will certainly look with compassion in days to come on the three hon. Members whom I have not been able to call on the statement , but we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 9 | Within this poem he clearly attempts to square on the one hand the darker representations of his sleep with his pansocratic visions , on the other hand , Pains of Sleep which was published at the same time as Kubla Khan illuminates the ancestral voices prophesying war . |
| 10 | And , remembering the way the wretched man had kept his finger on the bell , ‘ He could n't have been that lucky — to pick on the one flat you were in out of all the others — purely by chance . ’ |
| 11 | Kwik Save is to open on the two Sundays before Christmas . |
| 12 | So it 's a kind of a strange argument to suggest on the one hand the Vienna settlement was a factor in in preventing wars between all the great , er major war involving all the great powers . |
| 13 | But she shut up and lay back forcing her eyes to focus on the two groups of men in their different coloured shirts battling for the ball . |
| 14 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 15 | We will , I 'm now going to vote on the two er items that 've been discussed but before so doing , before so doing , may I bi be permitted to congratulate those new members of Council who have made , I think , excellent |
| 16 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 17 | Erm , I think the next item that requires an update is redundancy in paragraph eleven , erm , Walters at Ludlow are updating their Bishop 's Castle factory , erm , in the last week in February , with a loss of seventy three jobs , arrangements have been er , now made for the first erm , redundancy counselling and job search support course , to start on the twenty fourth of January . |
| 18 | That 's the sort of issue Chair , that we shall be able to address on the twenty seventh . |
| 19 | Mace claims that 450 software packages certified by the test suite are guaranteed to run on the 80 or so different systems using the 88000 chip . |
| 20 | However , a few detectors are designed to run on the 1.5 volt C cells such as the Garrett Grand Master and the White 's Eagle Spectrum . |
| 21 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 22 | At the very least , he would have to reckon on the 21 votes in the Cabinet being stacked up against him . |
| 23 | It is the plan of agitators and the way of sensational writers to confound the two in one , to talk of ‘ starving millions ’ and to tack on the thousands of the working classes to the tens or hundreds of the distressed . |
| 24 | That there are now 40-odd rugby development officers in Australia when there were two or three to capitalise on the 1984 Grand Slam tour is tremendous ’ . |
| 25 | Pressure for his removal had come from trade unions ; Pérez had made 3,000 workers redundant and had failed to improve on the three to four hours of electricity the country received daily . |
| 26 | At the next attempt , Odom excluded and when Cheshire had to take on the two Newcastle riders on his own , the result was just the same as in the initial race . |
| 27 | Today we launch our campaign , as the Community Care Act causes more elderly people than ever to rely on the six million people who care for relatives at home . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's making love to order on the one hand , ’ says Matthew , ‘ and there 's not having sex when you fancy it because you know you must conserve your sperm for the optimum moment in the month . ’ |