Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [to-vb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But imagine having to take on those disgusting poodles … ’ |
| 2 | However , within this chapter , 1 do intend to comment on four aspects . |
| 3 | Erm but then weighing things up I 've got to reflect on that one . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean we 've got to go on that ? ’ he said . |
| 5 | You 've got to concentrate on financial control , on your customer and on your people . |
| 6 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I 've got work to do and you 've got to stay on that bed . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said . |
| 9 | The national park covers an astonishing 840 square miles — I 've tended to concentrate on northern Snowdonia and even there have barely scraped the surface . |
| 10 | I 've had to take on more staff at the workshop in Killearn . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , this idea that the police had more more money , yes they have had more money , what , what er , has been very conveniently ignored is the enormous amount of money we 've had to spend on special protection duties . |
| 12 | The seven-member committee — dubbed the " God Squad " because of its power to override the Endangered Species Act — will have about six months to decide whether to grant an exemption to the provisions of the Act and permit logging to resume on 4,750 acres in 44 tracts owned by the Bureau of Land Management . |
| 13 | Even if , in the end , we have to agree to differ on some matters , grievances should be discussed , not camouflaged . |
| 14 | The fact that certain regions in the UK have come to depend on declining industries explains in part the regional disparities of unemployment which we referred to in Chapter 3 . |
| 15 | THE AUSTRALIANS have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same single-mindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year . |
| 16 | However research efforts in the past have tended to concentrate on one or the other . |
| 17 | Such investigations have tended to concentrate on linguistic traits which may not necessarily be artistically relevant , such as range of vocabulary sentence length or frequency of certain conjunctions on the principle that a writer 's genuine " thumbprint " is more likely to be found in unobtrusive habits beyond conscious artistic control . |
| 18 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 19 | That is the awful decision which soldiers have had to take on hundreds of occasions . |
| 20 | ‘ In some areas we have had to put on special courses to prepare students for A-level . ’ |
| 21 | In the past , hatcheries have had to rely on live feed , which is as unreliable and expensive to harvest from nature as it is to grow artificially . |
| 22 | Researchers in other areas with an interest in the effects of emotional arousal on memory have had to rely on staged events , rare occurrences or laboratory analogues . |
| 23 | Until now , we have had to rely on casual contacts with groups , annual reports and occasional documents , in order to tell us what Age Concern groups are doing . |
| 24 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 25 | Relative to the other opportunities that I have had to speak on such occasions , however , this is a lower grade privilege because the Bill has been extremely boring . |
| 26 | This Welcome break restaurant has suffered such a drop in trade that staff have agreed to work on short time , with a cut in wages , to try and keep it going until the bridge reopens . |
| 27 | Police have refused to comment on any of these claims . |
| 28 | Various initiatives have emerged to capitalise on this system |
| 29 | Freud was so impressed by the amount of brutality men have inflicted on one another , and have continued to inflict on one another , that he felt justified in developing what he thought of as a mythology of two conflicting instincts : sexuality and death , Eros and Thanatos . |
| 30 | So the dinosaurs could in theory have continued to pile on genetic advantages . |