Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of States made the declaration , commonly called ‘ the Article 23 reservation ’ that they would not act on requests for the pre-trial discovery of documents . |
| 2 | GOVERNMENT must act on quotas for suckler cows and breeding ewes which threaten the future of the landlord tenant system , the Scottish Landowners ' Federation claimed yesterday . |
| 3 | The social services team contracted to take and act on referrals within specified times ( the office would be manned between 9 am and 5 pm and referrals would be taken by a duty officer ; urgent referrals would be dealt with within two hours , non-urgent cases would be contacted within five working days ) . |
| 4 | The sale of council houses , as Malpass and Murie argue , ‘ reduces the housing opportunities of those who must rent — of those who can not buy on grounds of means , age and eligibility for borrowing — and who rely on becoming council tenants and on transfers and exchanges to satisfy their housing need . ’ |
| 5 | With oil consumption contracting to one-third of energy requirements by the end of the century the main weight of meeting increased demand will fall on imports of gas and coal and the increase of indigenous energy production through nuclear power . |
| 6 | In the event of loss or damage , carriers , shippers , consignees and their financiers could count on sets of insurers to pay the claims . |
| 7 | If James was right and they could count on contingents from every part of the strath , they would be a force indeed — a mass big enough to frighten the most assured gentleman . |
| 8 | In this volume we shall concentrate on changes since 1960 , and particularly since 1980 . |
| 9 | It will concentrate on developments in telecommunications--widely judged to be a sector of crucial infrastructural significance to the development of advanced industrial economies . |
| 10 | A simplified leaflet to be made available to the public will concentrate on procedures for making a complaint and the follow-up action which can be taken if the initial response is thought to be unsatisfactory . |
| 11 | The first part of this chapter will concentrate on studies of relatively small groups . |
| 12 | This chapter will concentrate on questions of methodology : what approach is most suitable to the study of Creole use in the British context ? |
| 13 | If these operations are to be distributed evenly across our region , for the next few months we should concentrate on patients from other health districts ( assuming equal clinical priority ) . |
| 14 | In the next two sections I shall concentrate on ways in which Saussurean linguistics enlarged and refined Formalist theories of literature , before considering other less ambitious approaches to literary language . |
| 15 | Examples may focus on differences in the structure of their language or parental relationships or the lack of parental knowledge of child development . |
| 16 | The paper will then focus on records in the scientific arena , as an example , to illustrate what impact there could be to historical research because of their electronic nature . |
| 17 | The long-wave school tends to conduct analysis in terms of sectors , whilst the regulationists would focus on changes in the labour process which , while undoubtedly being associated with the growth of new sectors , may also transform existing ones . |
| 18 | This investigation will focus on problems of vocal and instrumental scoring that arise in one representative work , Les nopces de village , and on ways to get closer to establishing the musical forces Lully called upon in 1663 . |
| 19 | The invisible woman These books do not focus on women at all . |
| 20 | The discussion of the role of the state will focus on linkages between the state and civil society through political engagement and on developments in ‘ administration ’ considered in relation to crisis management . |
| 21 | The investigation will focus on areas of social need which the student identifies as being prevalent in the local community . |
| 22 | The next trade mission , arranged for July , will focus on opportunities in Western Siberia , one of the main oil and gas producing regions in former Soviet territory . |
| 23 | Whilst the project will provide an overall view of policy within the Information Technology sector , detailed analysis will focus on mechanisms of re-regulation of telecommunications within the three countries and policies both national and international on standardisation of equipment and network interfaces . |
| 24 | Or perhaps the teacher takes on the role of the Pied Piper and tells the class ( still as townspeople ) that they can write letters to their children ( out of role the teacher could suggest these might be in code ) ; the drama might focus on negotiations between the townspeople and the Pied Piper . |
| 25 | Attention will now focus on negotiations at Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace . |
| 26 | Soaps do n't usually focus on characters like this , people who grew up with the idealistic values of the 1960s and early 1970s , who have put off having children until their thirties , who worry about the environment but also worry about how they 're not managing to do enough about it . |
| 27 | Late snow beds are rare in the hills , though limited areas may survive on screes in north-facing corries which receive no winter sun and relatively little summer sun . |
| 28 | The following month it was announced that Dulles would specialise on matters concerning the peace treaty and Truman approved arrangements for Dulles to visit Japan and Korea in June in order to confer with MacArthur and the Japanese government . |
| 29 | This simple ‘ bootstrapping ’ approach to language suggests a specific strategy by which teachers and therapists might capitalise on areas of relative competence in order to assist a child in those areas where she is experiencing difficulty . |
| 30 | Young children can choke on toys with small parts . |