Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US decision was the decisive factor in persuading the military-backed interim government and local business groups to agree on the same day to renewed negotiations with the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 2 | And the involuntary malice within the desperate attempts to remain on the safe side of the frontier of madness . |
| 3 | Less reliance on power bases is found in managers who have the tactical and interpersonal skills to concentrate on the essential objectives . |
| 4 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 5 | You get the interest by inviting good speakers to talk on the right subjects and by your format variety and , wherever possible , the right kind of sparkle . |
| 6 | Learners who live in what Krashen has referred to as ‘ acquisition-rich ’ environments and take advantage of such settings to use their communicative skills in the L2 , also need opportunities to focus on the functional properties of the language and attend to form . |
| 7 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 8 | ‘ But it 's true , ’ she said aloud , forcing her eyes to focus on the middle distance . |
| 9 | But she shut up and lay back forcing her eyes to focus on the two groups of men in their different coloured shirts battling for the ball . |
| 10 | The authors believe the cause of these persistent spells lies in the ability of the short waves to react on the long waves in such a way that , under certain situations , they favour the very pattern that caused them . |
| 11 | He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together ; and waited , allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance . |
| 12 | He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together ; and walked , allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance . |
| 13 | Q. How do the Authority help schools to decide on the relative emphasis they should give to particular aspects of the curriculum , especially the promotion of literacy and numeracy ? |
| 14 | Short now has 36 hours to reflect on the winning plan with his second , Grandmaster Lubosh Cavalek . |
| 15 | This has led planners to focus on the substantial private sector already in existence in some countries . |
| 16 | This will cause both feet to rest on the windward rail , making it difficult to keep the board level . |
| 17 | In 1971 , while the war was still going on , a group of unarmed scientists and I risked our lives and crossed into the fighting zones to check on the environmental effects of the war . |
| 18 | Protocols specified the level of " economic convergence " required for states to embark on the third and final stage of EMU . |
| 19 | I will certainly look with compassion in days to come on the three hon. Members whom I have not been able to call on the statement , but we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 20 | I do n't understand , it says Spillers is on the look out for Britain 's twelve most appealing dogs to appear on the Prime calendar nineteen ninety three . |
| 21 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 22 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of HP 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under the new agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 23 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of Hewlett 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under yesterday 's agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 24 | An American note was sent to the Soviet Union on 11 August 1947 requesting a report from the Joint Commission by 21 August to enable the two governments to decide on the next step . |
| 25 | ‘ This is probably the first time a lot of these artists have exhibited their work and it made our job even harder having to eliminate pieces to decide on the final winners . |
| 26 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
| 27 | British Rail tell us that this evening 's Banbury to London Paddington train which was due to leave Banbury at three minutes past seven has been cancelled , otherwise I 've no problems to report on the local trains or buses . . |
| 28 | This time it 's the lady from down the road , asking you to sign a petition against plans to build on the local playing fields . |
| 29 | This is used to display instructions to the Offline Operator about which media items to load on the available units during this particular run . |
| 30 | What effect does he expect the very welcome news about mortgage interest rates to have on the retail prices index ? |