Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many track workers have been allowed to go that in some parts of the country we are not able to put gangs together to work on a proper maintenance programme . ’ |
| 2 | How do you bring a group of people together to work on an equal basis when half the members of the group are experienced non-disabled professionals who are used to taking control ? |
| 3 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 4 | This was all to change on a pleasant spring day in 1947 . |
| 5 | Winning the toss and putting Knutsford in to bat on a damp wicket gave leftarmer Mike Cross the chance to shine with 4–19 . |
| 6 | The objective is not to report on an individual teacher , but appraisals have highlighted teachers whose performance does leave a lot to be desired . |
| 7 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 8 | You had , he says , to be careful not to fumigate on a foggy night when the air was too heavy to let the fumes drift away . |
| 9 | A constant flow of people was being seen by various clerks and secretaries , while at regular intervals one or other of the judges would be called away to advise on a particular problem or situation . |
| 10 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 11 | Unfortunately , much of this vast publicly available information resource is bibliographically ill-organised , is of very variable quality , and is frequently difficult to access or acquire The problems of accessing and acquiring such information have been greatly aggravated by the need for enterprises more and more to compete on a global basis ( compare , for example , the ‘ 1992 ’ initiative ; suddenly , we have to know all about Greece ! ) . |
| 12 | These were lean times for Spain 's biggest heroes — Jorge Martinez suffered technical frustrations in the 125 series , Alex Criville took much of the year to get up to speed on a 250 , while Sito Pons and Juan Garriga never got near the front of a 500 GP . |
| 13 | [ Most of the recommendations were implemented : the Development Council was set up to advise on a ten-year development programme ; a large amount of building work was authorised and a special college opened in Leicester to train youth leaders , whose numbers doubled by 1966 . ] |
| 14 | We agreed , after it was over — after the stitches ( a large number ) had been removed — that he had shown he was good enough now to go on a big trip . |
| 15 | Once it was dark , Jane went out to sit on a low wall where she could have a good view . |
| 16 | An elderly person in weakening health may be able to exert more power in the family and even to prevail on a disengaged family member to play a more active part in discussion and in regular visiting ( Bogo , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | But , there comes a time in every painting when a clean , new brush has to be used to add detail or to control a passage of the work that started off as a spontaneous accident , or alternatively to lay on a clean glaze . |
| 18 | We 're in a transmat booth , and we 're about to go on an instant journey . ’ |
| 19 | He and Joseph Hucks were to spend ‘ three or four days ’ in Oxford , and then to embark on a lengthy exploration of North Wales , the destination at that period of many travellers searching for the picturesque beauty praised by writers such as William Gilpin . |
| 20 | A dark interior greeted her and she blinked , trying hard to focus on a handsome young brown-skinned man coming towards her . |
| 21 | He was about to embark on a new life in New York with the most boring woman in Britain . |
| 22 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 23 | BELFAST Rock/Blues musician Brian Scott is about to embark on a European tour in support of his new album ‘ Deliverance ’ , which will include twelve Irish dates . |
| 24 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 25 | Lewis was about to embark on a three-stranded career . |
| 26 | He bought some of EH Shepherd 's original sketches for The Wind in the Willows , and decided Mole had to be about to embark on a big adventure . |
| 27 | The European Community is about to embark on an ambitious programme of research within the field of biotechnology and genetic diversity , within which plant taxonomic information systems are to play a part by linking taxonomic , molecular and genetic databases . |
| 28 | The talk , at least in the home camp , after Saturday 's match was of how Darlington are about to embark on an exciting rebirth . |
| 29 | Work was about to start on a new street through to Clerkenwell Green and excavations were under way to raise the level of the road by several feet . |
| 30 | Work is about to start on a new building that will link two factory units , presently separated by a gap . |