Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , he will certainly act on good ground . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ VAT at the full rate would act on that terrain like fiscal napalm . ’ |
| 3 | It is vital that the United Nations should now act on that groundwork and drive the peacemaking process forward . |
| 4 | It is not yet known how the active components of ginseng , compounds called triterpenoidal saponins , achieve these effects , although by analogy with the related steroidal saponins , such as digitalis , they may act on specific cell membranes . |
| 5 | A further enzyme , alpha 1,4 fucosyltransferase , can also act on this substrate to produce the Lewis b antigen but acts on a different substrate to produce the Lewis a antigen . |
| 6 | They must act on this opportunity to ensure that young doctors working in the NHS receive the training that they need and deserve . |
| 7 | For example , the Oxford Text Archive is a collection of computerised texts , each of which you can buy on floppy disc for the price of a printed copy . |
| 8 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 9 | Right , if there 's , if there 's gon na be , if there 's gon na be looking a bit iffy , if you 'll let me know on any item , and then I 'll get , I 'll , and then I 'll box . |
| 10 | She lifted Albert 's arms from the table , sat herself promptly down on the newspaper in front of Albert and let his arms fall on each side of her . |
| 11 | What operations then do we need on this data-type ? |
| 12 | He can also play at fullback and handles the place-kicking duties well , and looks a player of genuine class , although this may not really blossom on this tour . |
| 13 | What else they saw in and near the city they did not record , but it evidently did not include on this occasion the famous caverns at Wookey Hole . |
| 14 | Feuds lower in the social scale , such as that between the Heron and Manners families from 1428 to 1431 , where both parties could count on influential support from greater men , could prove hard to solve and necessitate impartial arbitration from outside ( 209 , pp. 197–201 ) . |
| 15 | And if he can count on Labour support , it could be a brilliant move . |
| 16 | Well , that 's always supposing you can get him in the first place , because the number of people who have actually seen him , you can count on one hand . ’ |
| 17 | Now if you get these right , word for word you 'll be er , I do conditions of carriage quizzes on selling skills courses and the amount of people that get this right I can count on one hand in the last three years . |
| 18 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 19 | Clough 's rock-bottom Forest have not won away all season , Coppell 's second-to-bottom Palace have not tasted victory at home — but both managers can count on one thing … their jobs are safe as houses . |
| 20 | Lacy and the Valencian conspirators could count on wider support , from merchants like Beltrán de Lis — in contact with officers as an army contractor — to shoemakers and farmers . |
| 21 | Moreover , they could count on widespread support on the Labour benches of the House of Commons where abolition was a popular cause . |
| 22 | Grandparents could not count on natural loyalty : rather ; they had to positively create their roles by winning a child 's affection . |
| 23 | Her tenacity , particularly in forcing the liberalisation of the country 's abortion laws last summer , has earned opposition from within her own Christian Democratic Union Party and she can not count on any support from Chancellor Kohl and his conservative faction . |
| 24 | He was also confronted by continuing obstruction and hostility from Roosevelt , the US State Department , and Churchill ( though by this stage he could at least count on some support from the Foreign Office ) . |
| 25 | ‘ But we ca n't count on this weather lasting . |
| 26 | Yet , in a somewhat art-y place like Freud 's which recently displayed the photographic work of Jane Ralley , the solitary wild-eyed scribbler was not too out of place ; but then , judging by the subject of half of the photographs in the show , the owner could count on this crowd to retain its sophisticated bonhomie in the face of far more deliberate provocation . |
| 27 | He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age . |
| 28 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 29 | The advantage of supine lying is that it allows the patient to work more easily , because the effect of gravity is reduced , and the patient feels safe because he is fully supported , so he can concentrate on perfect control of the selective movements in his limbs : this is an important stage in the preparation towards making steps , and ultimately to walking . |
| 30 | But this part of the course that we 're specifically calling advocacy will concentrate on that part of the skill of advocacy , of the actual standing up and presenting information . |