Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] on [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | It may be argued that to focus on social security is to overlook other sources of income in old age . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Projects were carefully oriented to maximise usable solar-gain , to protect a northerly aspect , and to capitalise on natural lighting and ventilation . |
| 10 | A qualified nurse is available to treat injuries and general illnesses and to advise on general health matters . |
| 11 | Its brief was to examine the College 's administrative structure and to advise on developing conference income . |
| 12 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 13 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 14 | ‘ Having made such a botch-up on coal , it is amazing that the Government have been so bloody-minded as to push on full steam ahead without prior consultation with the industry and regardless of a potentially devastating impact on jobs . ’ |