Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now group selection is , is the idea which grew up after Darwin and remained very common until the nineteen sixties and seventies , that natural selection could act on entire groups or species . |
| 2 | The current volume of vehicles could triple , or even quadruple , over the next 30 years and the bulk of the increase will fall on rural roads rather than urban streets or motorways . |
| 3 | The unit argues that traffic on motorways and urban roads is unlikely to increase over 50% , so the main impact will fall on rural byways which are not equipped to cope with such a volume of vehicles . |
| 4 | Almost two thirds of the £6.75 billion worth of tax increases already pencilled in for 1994-95 will fall on personal incomes , only a third will be fall on spending . |
| 5 | Injunctions to love the slugs in your garden may fall on deaf ears . |
| 6 | A heavy tax burden would fall on certain sectors of the middle classes , but not on others . |
| 7 | For example , from 1st January 1993 , the legal responsibility to provide Supplementary Declarations ( Intrastats ) to Customs and Excise authorities will fall on larger traders for all intra-EEC trade . |
| 8 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman 's words will fall on sympathetic ears when the Minister of State replies . |
| 9 | However , if the yield does fall on equity-based PEPs , it means that other investments , such as gilts and building society deposits will become more competitive . |
| 10 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 11 | Thus , the risk of voids will fall on both parties , and both will suffer the loss in the proportions in which they are entitled to participate in income . |
| 12 | When his reign ends , they could fall on hard times . |
| 13 | Other colourful snakes on display include King Snakes which will prey on other snakes , mambas and cobras from Africa , Rainbow and Haitian Boas from Central and South America , Garter Snakes from North America , Carpet and Children 's Pythons from Australia , and Mangrove Snakes from Asia . |
| 14 | The wolf-rats would prey on large rabbits , which themselves would grow to the size of deer , to become ‘ rabbucks ’ . |
| 15 | In the region of the trades — the south-easterlies ( between the equator and Capricorn ) and the north-easterlies ( to the north of the equator , up to the Tropic of Cancer ) — one can count on endless days and weeks of steady , 13-knot winds , a delightful lack of high humidity and temperature , and skies that are either cloudless or decorated with small white patches of flat-bottomed cumulus cloud , always poised a third of a mile above the sea . |
| 16 | Sources also pointed to the swift response of troops loyal to General Noriega , especially the 7th Infantry , as evidence that he can still count on important parts of the military to back him up . |
| 17 | There are some who would object on philosophical grounds to this kind of synthesizing approach . |
| 18 | The days are gone when so-called big clubs like Manchester United could swoop on other clubs and sign their star players . |
| 19 | For the time being we shall concentrate on empirical studies concerned with specific further predictions made by Wagner 's theory . |
| 20 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 21 | Once the standards and interface issues have been ironed out , Tivoli will concentrate on developing applications for configuration and change management , security management and inventory monitoring and analysis . |
| 22 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 23 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 24 | Space limitations mean one can only select a little from what was a varied and highly successful programme , so I will concentrate on two areas . |
| 25 | Governments should concentrate on such matters . |
| 26 | Often an introductory section mentions that the teacher may select and may concentrate on certain aspects in preference to others ; sometimes it gives an indication that regional variations in content may be acceptable in certain cases . |
| 27 | Further studies , the researchers believe , should concentrate on pregnant women known to have a zinc deficiency or to be at risk from problems during labour . |
| 28 | Looking critically at the practices and processes of black , women artists , this course will concentrate on contemporary women of colour in the UK , their social relationships in the light of their gender and class . |
| 29 | If you are near the right markets , you may concentrate on horticultural crops for sale , but that is beyond the scope of this book . |
| 30 | They can concentrate on fast-moving products ( ie goods that sell well ) , so that stock is not held for too long and money is released to buy more goods |