Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We go downstairs and sit side-by-side on the sofa . |
| 2 | Concentrate rather on the walking itself . |
| 3 | Professional conjurers who do complicated and difficult tricks practise until they can totally forget the technique and concentrate entirely on the audience . |
| 4 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 5 | As such it is difficult to do more than introduce some issues and concentrate only on the subset of issues that have figured most prominently in the public finance sub-discipline . |
| 6 | If he was to become the Asian Superman of Nietzsche 's teachings , he must cast aside all thought of pleasure and sensual gratification and concentrate only on the task before him ! |
| 7 | I mean obviously on the whole he ca n't guarantee what sort of priest we 're going to get , but the whole meeting was quite positive . |
| 8 | For the producers of material X , for example , although not currently selling X to exporting firms , can argue that , if they were not supplying firms that sell only on the home market , those firms would have to buy imported supplies of X , and that , if the firms that now supply X to exporting firms were unable to do so , they would be able to take their place . |
| 9 | Yes , you mean literally on the corner ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry to interrupt , ’ they say politely on the phone , and I sit up straighter and always feel guilty . |
| 11 | Reporters and feature writers wore a path through the pastures of Low Birk Hatt , and now they knock constantly on the door of Belle Vue Cottage , Cotherstone . |
| 12 | Gila monsters and beaded lizards are generally nocturnal and hunt mainly on the ground . |
| 13 | Beyond the track , head uphill on the track to Cockfield . |
| 14 | They appear again on the south and east sides of the Spanish Meseta and then on way down into Africa . |
| 15 | He replied that an army of 5–6000 men might still successfully evade the Royal Navy and descend anywhere on the coast , so that the nation needed a minimum of 18,000 under arms , one-third to protect London , another third distributed throughout the country to crush any supporting rebellions , and the final third to provide a strategic reserve — an admirable analysis of the problem . |
| 16 | They eat outside on the terrace , it 's so warm , by candlelight , with the lights of the city spread out in front of them — a sea of lights , twinkling in the uneven layers of warm air like a still sea shimmering and glittering . |
| 17 | You can have Piers , not literally , I mean just on the tape . |
| 18 | Today the new Little People , those who dance nightly on the television screen , have ousted the old . |
| 19 | Behind , two redneck rock'n'roll haters with attached security tags sit broadly on the hotel hospitality sofas . |
| 20 | A major problem is that many reef fish depend entirely on the reef for food and protection and are therefore territorially inclined . |
| 21 | Most operations depend entirely on the winch or car driver judging the speeds from the bow in the cable and the way in which the glider is gaining height . |
| 22 | Applications depend greatly on the flexibility of the program used . |
| 23 | This is particularly the case where builders do not maintain a stores department or utilise a yard , and in fact many builders function only on the basis of direct delivery from the builders ' merchant to the site . |
| 24 | Professions are sometimes referred to as institutions , but the interesting point is that compared to many institutions they function less on the basis of formal , explicit regulations and codes than on informal , tacit norms and expectations . |
| 25 | We hope that it has not escaped the reader that the predictions concerning the different effects of word and feature masks do not depend on the mask being a word ; they depend only on the mask being composed of letters . |
| 26 | These depend only on the distance between the two points and not on their location or the orientation of the line joining them . |
| 27 | It is right to distrust initiatives that depend only on the health and education sectors ; in the current political climate this is indeed oversimplistic . |
| 28 | The dynamics depend only on the product of survival and fertility , which we denote by . |
| 29 | The results depend crucially on the symmetry and on the relative sizes of the eigenvalues of the linearised flow near the origin . |
| 30 | GM has reduced its financial exposure in Brazil , but it has not reduced its long-term commitment : the continuing success of its assembly plants there depend crucially on the quality and reliability of its local suppliers , all of whom need continuing sources of assistance to upgrade their capabilities as technologies and competitive standards shift . |