Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 2 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 3 | I want to comment briefly on the Government 's proposals and to support wholeheartedly the new clauses and amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) . |
| 4 | I want to focus here on an ‘ affordable ’ way of reaching a maximum number of teachers with this aim , i.e. the group consultative training approach . |
| 5 | Hawkwind rely extensively on a canon of work virtually unchanged since their mid-'70s ‘ Space Ritual ’ album . |
| 6 | The public tend to focus more on the one penny than on the quarter of a million illegal profit and conclude that the incident is insignificant . |
| 7 | They observe , however , that it would on any view be a grave impediment to the freedom of the press if those who print , or a fortiori those who distribute , matter reflecting critically on the conduct of public authorities could only do so with impunity if they could first verify the accuracy of all statements of fact on which the criticism was based . |
| 8 | Some of them are still exogenous and can be modified only by varying the stimulus , but some of them now seem to depend mainly on the way the subject is processing the stimulus . |
| 9 | Their hands lay laced together on the chair arm , but Lisa did not look at him as he put to her , ‘ Of course you have to think of Emily , but surely there must be a couple of men out there who are capable of being a good father to your daughter ? ’ |
| 10 | The desired route within Edinburgh city centre and outskirts can be chosen and sponsorship could be sought to cover part or all of the cost , ( with the sponsors name appearing prominently on the bus ) . |
| 11 | The Sandinistas in government are somewhat at a loss for their own charismatic figure , but continue to draw amply on the ( revised ) ideology and mythology of Sandino himself and of the martyred heroes of the revolution . |
| 12 | When joining an Airway try to do so on a track as close as possible to 90° to the centre line . |
| 13 | In the evolutionary version , the payoffs are changes in fitness ; hence , although they may be difficult to measure , they do fall naturally on a linear scale . |
| 14 | But if you choose to dwell only on the aspects of life you find upsetting , you may not experience as much joy as you could . |
| 15 | Whether such conditions exist depends largely on the nature of the soil . |
| 16 | The type of hedging plant you choose depends partly on the amount of annual maintenance you are prepared to undertake . |
| 17 | Er furthermore er so the number upon whom we can draw is , is really minimal , and we do depend heavily on the help of the professional theologians , though we 're all theologians you know I , I subscribe to the idea that we 're all theologians , I wo n't listen to these people who say I 'm no theologian . |
| 18 | For eating , leave to ripen fully on the tree . |
| 19 | From the basic two position , we pull in the mainsheet , we start sailing away on a reach , the wind is blowing directly across the boat and we accelerate away . |
| 20 | Woman-centred methods also tend to rely uncritically on the particular kinds of scientificity that therapeutic and humanist methods have developed . |
| 21 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 22 | The choice of food you prepare depends partly on the patient 's taste as to the food he prefers , partly on his eating abilities or difficulties , and partly on dietary needs such as avoiding putting on weight . |
| 23 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 24 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 25 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 26 | Now , as we 've said earlier on the Holy Spirit works in the new birth and it is through the work of the Holy Spirit that we come to know God . |
| 27 | But we wish to focus here on the particular problems involved in the transfer of information from producers who are external to users who are internal . |
| 28 | But for those who wish to focus more on the current century , there are three other deals — a five-year fixed rate of 7.99 per cent ( arrangement fee £245 ) , a two-year fixed rate of 6.79 per cent ( arrangement fee ) £225 ; and a one-year deal of 5.79 per cent ( arrangement fee £175 ) . |
| 29 | I 've worked hard on the ‘ proper English ’ accent and with Kenneth 's help , got rid of the Yorkshire ‘ u ’ sound — as in bus — but had a little trouble with the ‘ ay ’ sound — as in fade . |
| 30 | Governments of every political persuasion wish to spend more on an almost limitless number of service areas , but far too often — infinitely more often than Labour Members care to admit — the fault lies in the simple failure of an individual to deliver a conscientious personal commitment . |