Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 20 years ' service the almost total entitlement to remain on full pay , albeit suspended from duty , until the age of 65 . |
| 2 | The unification treaty provided for existing arrangements to continue to apply and required parliament to agree on uniform legislation by the end of 1992 [ see pp. 37661 ; 37833 ] . |
| 3 | Judge Allen told Clarke : ‘ Nothing this court can do can remedy the harm caused by your decision to drive on that day . ’ |
| 4 | My hon. Friend brings a great deal of expertise to bear on this issue . |
| 5 | He needs to have time and freedom to concentrate on proper spending ! ) |
| 6 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on this draft PPG Note . |
| 7 | ‘ With his business training and keen sense of duty , he makes an admirable country gentleman ; on all Boards , on all Committees , on all Councils , in politics , and generally in affairs , he is to be counted on and depended upon ; he brings an admirable sense of rectitude and a very kindly heart to bear on public business . |
| 8 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 9 | Try to avoid making instant decisions ; instead , go home and draw the proposed piece to scale on some card . |
| 10 | No sooner do you suggest a trad/rap crossover record be released than Brendan Shine comes out with the biggest load of crap to fall on this earth since Bros recorded their limited edition live L.P. ‘ Live From Mars ’ . |
| 11 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Education , now headed by rightwingers in the coalition , has indicated its intention to concentrate on formal sector education , marginalizing the literacy and popular adult education work which had been so important under the Sandinistas by starving them of funds . |
| 13 | He uses relativity to throw light on time and eternity , and indeterminacy to comment on free will . |
| 14 | The Environment White Paper — ‘ This Common Inheritance ’ announced the Government 's intention to consult on this amendment along with various others proposed to the 1979 Act . |
| 15 | There are some bream waters which have poor spawning grounds and a lack of natural food to enable the existing stock to put on excess weight . |
| 16 | From the imperative to refrain on this occasion the child may advance , as he observes the situation recur in his own or others ' experience , to his first general principle : |
| 17 | Score wood panelling on to the door with the back of a knife and leave both the door and the archway to dry on non-stick paper overnight . |
| 18 | Leave the little figures and steering wheel to dry on non-stick paper for 24 hours . |
| 19 | The professional therefore needs to keep an open mind to check on relevant information . |
| 20 | It took from the Edinburgh summit in December nineteen ninety two , when the current Prime Minister first announced the government 's intention to legislate on this issue , until the thirtieth of June nineteen ninety three before the European parliamentary elections bill had its first reading . |
| 21 | They certainly pay close attention to one another 's progress , frequently glancing from side to side to check on each other 's position . |
| 22 | ( 20 ) Hold exchange until completion dates and readiness to exchange on concurrent sale and purchase established . |
| 23 | If anyone has any light to throw on this mystery both the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the BM and the Mayor of Capri would like to hear from them . |
| 24 | When I opened my mouth to speak on this topic it was as though my lips were sewn together with great stitches in the flesh , and my tongue would not move in my mouth . |
| 25 | Typically sparked off by what might have been seen as an unfair arrest or an arbitrary use of police power , resistance to arrest on this scale was such an entirely , common feature of working-class life before the Great War that it constitutes the most articulate demolition of the myths of deep-rooted popular respect for law and authority in England . |
| 26 | In summary it seems that a statistical relationship between low-level exposure to lead on one hand , and low intelligence and , possibly , hyperactivity on the other , has been established , but that the causal relation is still an unresolved issue . |
| 27 | It should encourage a willingness to engage on common ground , where ‘ meaning ’ theist and ‘ meaning ’ atheist conduct an argument in which each understands the other and indeed may convert the other . |
| 28 | Opposition came from the Treasury ministers who objected to a handout of a cool million as a near sacrilegious attack on the principle of sound finance , and from the Foreign Secretary who had no faith at all in the capacity of the Evian Committee to agree on joint action . |
| 29 | Deer hunting to continue on National Trust lands |
| 30 | Affiliative links between larger firms enhances the procurement of materials and smooths their pattern of marketing while inter-group stockholding prevents unwanted takeover bids and allows management to concentrate on long-term performance rather than short-term profits distributed to stockholders . |