Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit . |
| 2 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |
| 3 | Although Conklin is absolutely right to concentrate on the economic dimension of corporate crime , for ultimately it is always about money , it does obscure the fact that in pursuing economic goals there are physical as well as economic impacts , and these are sufficiently important to demand inclusion in any conceptualization . |
| 4 | All language is morally loaded ( one campaigner 's unborn child is another 's clump of cells ) but those who would trick the public by the term pre-embryo should be prepared to concentrate on the moral status of the early embryo , not on dreaming up a new vocabulary . |
| 5 | These results leave the Commission free to concentrate on the real problem areas : |
| 6 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 7 | It rules out 85% of possible clashes and leaves the designer free to concentrate on the remaining 15% of cases . |
| 8 | This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control . |
| 9 | Having put these levers in their basic positions , you are free to concentrate on the three ribber controls that you 'll be using all the time . |
| 10 | The pub owner said he was not prepared to comment on the loyalist group 's withdrawal of threats on pubs , such as his own , which host Irish folk music sessions . |
| 11 | It is interesting to speculate on the possible reasons for his total obscurity during the intervening years of the Restoration . |
| 12 | It would be interesting to speculate on the legal position of the European flag if any prosecution for failing to fly the correct British ensign were to be appealed to the European Court . |
| 13 | It is interesting to speculate on the likely effect of opting out on the present independent schools . |
| 14 | ‘ It does appear he is now willing to focus on the main issue , that 's why I 'm hopeful , ’ the agent added . |
| 15 | It may also influence the long-term supply of young people willing to embark on the seven-year period of training . |
| 16 | The justification for protection in these circumstances is that a businessman who is willing to deal on the other party 's standard terms and conditions is probably unable to negotiate a special deal due to an inequality of bargaining power . |
| 17 | They were falling over one another to get on the winning side . ’ |
| 18 | But they are prepared to act on the political stage according to a script which permits pragmatic compromise up to the point where further compromise would endanger the fundamental evangelical principles of the background . |
| 19 | The Puritan Elizabethan clergyman , George Gifford , ’ had this to say on the typical witchcraft setting : |
| 20 | It is interesting to note on the old maps how many bridlepaths and footpaths radiate from the mill — it was obviously used constantly by the farmers of the area . |
| 21 | It seemed a bit risky to begin on the main pieces of work , so I made a separate swatch . |
| 22 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 23 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 24 | This is so that they are easy to find on the large boxes . |
| 25 | Since it is largely new , it might be appropriate to concentrate on the last chapter which " offers a reading of some very different Shakespearean plays " ( p. 196 ) . |
| 26 | It is too easy to dwell on the environmental down-side of the industry and I believe it is about time we brought home to people the improvements we bring to their life-style . |
| 27 | With the new season now on top of us , it might be appropriate to expand on the new laws and to try to give the intentions behind the changes in certain areas . |
| 28 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 29 | The most we can get is some idea of the world view the one hand , impossible to say on the other and most importantly , what it is not possible not to say or avoid saying/implying ’ ( personal communication ) . |
| 30 | Our examination of one unremarkable sentence from Katherine Mansfield 's A Cup of Tea shows how it is possible to focus on the stylistic value of a piece of language by comparing with unwritten alternatives : " what might have been written , but was n't " . |