Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ESRC Data Archive holds regular data user seminars to facilitate the sharing of solutions to common problems encountered in analysing particular datasets or to focus on particular research applications . |
| 2 | As a result lower level or petty bureaucrats frequently have to rely upon local people for economic perks ( access to a small plot of land , or to credit on favourable terms , or the rent of a house ) . |
| 3 | It may be argued that to focus on social security is to overlook other sources of income in old age . |
| 4 | Many jurisdictions have taken the view that to insist on such service would unfairly disadvantage potential plaintiffs , and have provided that where an enterprise based abroad does business within the jurisdiction service may be effected at some business address there , without the need to serve any document abroad . |
| 5 | They do n't come cheap , but it is better to have a small , professional album , than to rely on great-uncle Archie and his dodgy instamatic . |
| 6 | The committee was appointed to consider powers of delegated legislation and quasi-judicial decision and to report on any safeguards needed ‘ to secure the constitutional principles of the sovereignty of Parliament and the supremacy of the Law ’ . |
| 7 | The purpose of this chapter is to provide several basic wordlists , to point to where more detailed lists ( other than in dictionaries ) may be found , and to comment on certain aspects of orthography . |
| 8 | If we are to compete effectively in world markets and to communicate on equal terms with our European partners we need to increase substantially the numbers of young people leaving school with a good grounding in at least one foreign language . |
| 9 | Politically , however , I would foresee a ‘ Germanisation ’ of the EC , in the sense that the present German wish to avoid active external commitments and to concentrate on internal development will become the passive , defensive ethic of a Community which will attempt to build walls between itself and the turbulence of the outside world . |
| 10 | This allows competitor countries — Germany and Japan — to reduce their military expenditure and to concentrate on domestic industry , thereby undermining the international competitiveness of the leading powers in the capitalist bloc . |
| 11 | Dismissing the irritating Leo from her mind , she ran lightly upstairs to collect a thick sweater and to pull on heavy shoes before setting off across the boggy field behind the cottage towards the bend in the river . |
| 12 | These included a massive bribery case — the Suso housing scandal — which led Roh to reshuffle his Cabinet and to appear on national television on Feb. 19 to apologize . |
| 13 | And so we had discussions with them and I can tell you , you know , it was at least six months before the consultants ever made any specific move to introduce the system as such er because of our overtures to them , because of the fact that we asked regularly to meet them and to consult on various points . |
| 14 | Banks can borrow to finance lending , to use unlent deposits , to balance out fluctuations in their books , and to speculate on future movements in interest rates . |
| 15 | So , equipped with a newly-restored 1942 300 hp Stearman ( the Cannibal Queen of the title ) former A-6 Intruder pilot Coonts launches off with his teenage son aboard to set wheel in all 48 contiguous states , stopping en route to visit family , ex-wife , old squadron buddies , national monuments , places of pilgrimage ( like Kill Devil Hills , from which the Wrights first flew ) , aviation museums , and pausing awhile en route to give rides in the big yellow biplane to anyone who asks , and to philosophise on racial equality , politics , religion , women the FAA , Disneyworld … |
| 16 | These can be used to sharpen skills of inference and to focus on underlying attitudes , prejudices and entrenched beliefs , about which even the subject himself may not have been fully conscious . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when I made a move towards the cottage door , as if to leave on some errand , he called me back . |
| 18 | That is , to take actions to resolve difficulties and to draw on psychological resources to control the meaning of the event and to control the distress with which it is associated ( Pearlin and Schooler , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | And I shall try to suggest some ways of beginning to think about ‘ autonomy ’ which seem to me to be more fruitful and adequate , and to draw on different traditions of thinking about the self which have become influential in some recent feminist thinking . |
| 20 | What is absent from these accounts is a structural analysis of the political and administrative conditions which enabled the profession to reassert its position , and to insist on increased representation within the state . |
| 21 | A minimal barrier system requires people entering the animal area to remove their laboratory coats worn in other areas , and to put on protective clothing . |
| 22 | The onward march of technological progress has given us the user-friendly sealed cassette , much more difficult to damage or tamper with — or to intervene in ( and to recreate on modern machines ) . |
| 23 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 24 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 25 | Beyond that , the future of the island will be determined by one test above all : the willingness of the republic to take stock of its past failings — and to build on recent signs that a self-confident and modern state is in the making . |
| 26 | The strategy 's objective is to achieve a patient record that will be accessible wherever a patient is treated and to build on that record an entire clinical information system , so its success depends on the support of doctors . |
| 27 | It remains a most economical breed to rear , able to thrive on rough grazing and to fatten on low-cost rations , and is a popular ranching breed , exported to more than 60 countries . |
| 28 | Projects were carefully oriented to maximise usable solar-gain , to protect a northerly aspect , and to capitalise on natural lighting and ventilation . |
| 29 | A qualified nurse is available to treat injuries and general illnesses and to advise on general health matters . |
| 30 | Its brief was to examine the College 's administrative structure and to advise on developing conference income . |