Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the occasion in question when he was due to go on a fourth visit , the prison was informed that unfortunately the relative had died . |
| 2 | Then , once the owner realizes that the building is of value , it may be possible to agree on a constructive course of action . |
| 3 | If possible eat on the same day that you buy them . |
| 4 | It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit . |
| 5 | on the one hand to provide a platform for asserting labor 's right to contend on an equal footing with capital but , on the other hand , to limit the very capacity to engage in militant confrontation . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In an area of weak lordship , Louis was prepared to capitalize on a simple right of protection to claim an old public obligation , a new feudal lordship , and a new territorial stake . |
| 10 | Has an attempt been made to identify nurses in the local community who would be prepared to work on a casual basis ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These results leave the Commission free to concentrate on the real problem areas : |
| 13 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 14 | It rules out 85% of possible clashes and leaves the designer free to concentrate on the remaining 15% of cases . |
| 15 | This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Whether or not a ‘ flypaper ’ effect is prevalent depends on the relative size of the price and the income elasticities of demand . |
| 19 | It is interesting to speculate on the possible reasons for his total obscurity during the intervening years of the Restoration . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is interesting to speculate on the likely effect of opting out on the present independent schools . |
| 22 | Dublin scored 70 goals for long-ball specialists Cambridge , but his arrival raised eyes with the Old Trafford faithful fed on the dazzling exploits of Best , Charlton and Law . |
| 23 | The Spanish in South America had of course embarked on this course long before the British ; the changes of 1757–63 mark the point at which the British moved on an appreciable scale into the imperial activity of gaining new subjects in the process of expansion . |
| 24 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 25 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 26 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 27 | Branches should try to compile and maintain a lists of people willing to help on a casual basis like this . |
| 28 | An England source said : ‘ Geoff has always been willing to help on an unofficial basis . |
| 29 | ‘ It does appear he is now willing to focus on the main issue , that 's why I 'm hopeful , ’ the agent added . |
| 30 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |