Example sentences of "[adv] on [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This oddity seems most readily explicable in practical terms : probably the heirs of Pamphilus were holding back only on making over the hundred ; as a result only the hundred came into issue ; and because of Scaevola 's proclivity to answering questions concisely ( a point to which we will return ) and ‘ on the facts as stated ’ , the circumstances of the rest of the property were simply left aside . |
| 2 | ‘ Companies need to focus less on dividing their refining and chemical interests and more on capitalising on the tremendous synergies from integration ’ . |
| 3 | This applies not only while out on contract but also on returning to the home country . |
| 4 | Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest . |
| 5 | Officials of the Sauchiehall Street Traders ' Association — whose shopping precinct will be one of the targeted areas — said high street stores were likely to look favourably on contributing to the scheme . |
| 6 | The searcher who depends solely on browsing at the shelves can miss other related items scattered elsewhere in the collection . |
| 7 | You can then concentrate much more effectively on dealing with the wound , rather than having to battle with your dog in order to help it . |
| 8 | Often people realise this almost unconsciously , and immediately on walking onto the court , commence a vigorous bouncing/stretching routine . |
| 9 | We will not spend more time here on looking at the problems , but go on to look at some generalisations about suffixes and stress . |
| 10 | Initially on arriving at the site a panel consisting of between four and six persons is chosen , after careful screening to eliminate those with poor olfactory perception , to observe the odour . |
| 11 | Yet on returning to the stage for the first encore , after the first set which had lasted only 35 minutes , they all actually began to sound like a live band and you momentarily forgot about the keyboard player triggering off the backing vocals , and the percussionists aided by drum sequencers . |
| 12 | Why does she rely so heavily on retreating into the past ? ’ |