Example sentences of "[verb] on our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our strategy is straightforward : we will continue to concentrate on our two core businesses of spirits and beers and to benefit from this clear focus . |
| 2 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
| 3 | We have to concentrate on our own results and performances . ’ |
| 4 | Halfway through , Corporal Vigno decided that we were slacking so we all had to do press-ups on the gravel , perched on our clenched fists . |
| 5 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 6 | We would be reneging on our total commitment and our obligations to the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 7 | KF chose EDS because ‘ we were convinced they will focus on our real needs , not just try to sell us something , ’ Hjoth said . |
| 8 | All at once the range of plants we can grow has extended to include many of the magically evocative creatures that we encounter on our annual run for the sun . |
| 9 | The existence of women priests alongside men will help to discourage unhealthy dependency and encourage us all to stand on our own feet . |
| 10 | She 's very kind , but we ought to stand on our own feet . |
| 11 | They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham . |
| 12 | Now that you 've decided on our new club name send it off to — . |
| 13 | We can see what has been written on our medical records after November 1991 — but have no right to the earlier information . |
| 14 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 15 | Why has this major change in attitudes come about , and why all this concern about health in an affluent Western world where we can congratulate ourselves and count on our good fortune in having all the benefits of modern medicine to protect us unlike the peoples of the developing world ? |
| 16 | The louvres will come ready to install on our superb mono-control headrail systems , ( which can also be colour-keyed if required ) . |
| 17 | Not quite as bad as I have seen on our modern commuter stations , but we were jam packed and could not be parted from our scant luggage . |
| 18 | But whether we like it or not now we depend on our European partners . |
| 19 | We therefore felt it was inappropriate to withhold HRT from some of our patients so that this study was open and prospective , and depend on our previous studies of untreated patients with inflammatory bowel disease for comparison . |
| 20 | S s so w if we use the same thing that we 've just done on our own house and say how can we stop it from happening , might not get a burglar alarm . |
| 21 | We shall become poor men , nomads who possess nothing , just wandering minds who spend only as much time as is needed on our physical affairs and then depart free men . |
| 22 | That is what happened on our first day here . ’ |
| 23 | We stand on our own feet . ’ |
| 24 | Olga grunted , and then admitted grudgingly : ‘ Yeah , he practises on our old piano in the basement . |
| 25 | ‘ And I appeal to employers to look on our ex-service people and see in them the opportunity for the loyal , dedicated , hard-working men and women that they are . ’ |
| 26 | The weather as usual was all against us even in June , but the appointed time saw us anchored on our allotted station , near the East Bramble buoy in the East Solent . |
| 27 | They are trying to provide a mixed economy of welfare so frustratingly , paradoxically , we ca n't spend on our own services . |
| 28 | We went to the nearest pub in our sodden clothes and reflected on our great holiday . |
| 29 | No artificial colourings are used on our French Fries , however from time to time a light dextrose ( sugar solution ) spray may be used on the surface to enhance the colour . |
| 30 | He will report on our Corporate Plan , international activities and current plans on the drawing board to improve the status and image of the Association and , importantly , the services and communications with our members . |