Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | possibly also they might not want to go on national television |
2 | Did you want to go on this side ? |
3 | On Oct. 10 at an extraordinary conference on combating racist violence , federal and Land interior and justice ministers failed to agree on appropriate measures . |
4 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
5 | Signature of the treaty was preceded on Sept. 7 by a final session of the two-plus-four talks [ see also pp. 37659 ; 37535 ; 37466 ] at which ministers failed to agree on outstanding issues . |
6 | Ordinarily the referee and judge remain on opposite sides of the contestants but sometimes , for example when the latter are circling each other , both end up on the same side . |
7 | But there are guidelines for women using tampons : Do n't leave a tampon in for too long ( time differs depending on menstrual flow ) . |
8 | Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that Santa 's address , the answer to Enigma 595c , failed to appear on 2 February with the rest of the answers to the Christmas Enigmas . |
9 | Even if , in the end , we have to agree to differ on some matters , grievances should be discussed , not camouflaged . |
10 | Do you want to comment on that Mr or not ? |
11 | The Environmental Health Officer and Occupational Therapist will also want to comment on these plans , to give advice on whether the planned work is suitable and acceptable . |
12 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
13 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
14 | Paige was glad of her strong boots , but she would gladly have thrown her bag away , for it either kept falling off or got caught on stray branches . |
15 | Er all of you , all of you prioritising some sort of organisation and planning of revision , so I 've got some ideas that you might want to try on that score so first years , I 'm sure like Clare you must have some work to do . |
16 | The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion . |
17 | Unfortunately , most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details , sacrificing the overall picture . |
18 | Another criticism is that UK banks tend to concentrate on short-term lending , causing a shortage of long-term funds for investment . |
19 | Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws . |
20 | The tendency for current research to make use of multi-disciplinary approaches is increasing , although theses themselves tend to concentrate on smaller units of research . |
21 | However , since management courses tend to concentrate on basic tasks and procedures , there is a risk that the much larger matters signalled here will be treated rudimentarily at best . |
22 | I do not want to concentrate on procedural matters , but , as the hon. Gentleman said , it is curious that the Bill has not been introduced by the Government , especially as the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Bill has just completed its Committee stage . |
23 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
24 | Outmoded this view might be , but most of us would still prefer to try on new clothes , wax hair off our legs , perform our ablutions or put on make-up in private . |
25 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
26 | The sad fact is that the vast majority are failing to realise their evangelistic potential , preferring to concentrate on spiritual nurture of the existing group members . |
27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
28 | This resort has developed on either side of an old fishing town , along two stretches of gently shelving beach . |
29 | His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains . |
30 | Harry Judge has commented on programmed learning that it : |