Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 2 | But viewers soon came to rely on Central South as their major source of regional news . |
| 3 | BL came to rely on large cash hand-outs and subsidies , and eventually had to be cut down into its constituent elements and returned to the private sector . |
| 4 | She came to speak on neonatal care at one of the obs and gynae meetings . |
| 5 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 6 | A report was submitted to the Director who declined to prosecute on public interest grounds . |
| 7 | Through her efforts a mission hall was built , where she started to lecture on moral purity . |
| 8 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , at one point the Phoenix was very nearly shot down ; the new Labour Prime Minister ( Jim Callaghan ) and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( Denis Healey ) decided that a transfer ‘ from wallet to purse ’ was a certain vote loser , and they managed to play on old trade union antagon-isms and Cabinet confusion such that the benefit was seriously delayed and nearly abandoned ( Land , 1977a ; Field , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | And even in an area which is working well , Next Directory , the company failed to capitalise on strong demand , which lifted sales by 49 per cent , because it did not hold enough stock . |
| 11 | Trained in the French school of severe deductive logic , he preferred to rely on unassisted reason . |
| 12 | So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water . |
| 13 | He stressed , however , that Pakistan had no intention of producing a bomb as it wished to concentrate on economic development . |
| 14 | Worsley continued to write on general policy questions , but he also tried to turn his knowledge to profit . |
| 15 | Whilst most parents ' groups continued to focus on mutual support , these examples of service provision represent a considerable net addition to the facilities available in the County ; they also reflect the powerful moral and practical support given to the development of parents ' groups by the CMHTs . |
| 16 | The opposition attacked the ruling ID as the only government in Latin America which continued to insist on state-led growth rather than market-orientated economic reforms . |
| 17 | Thousands of homes in the North-East had to rely on stored water for 40 hours after the pollution alert at Barnard Castle the discharge was traced to the vicinity of the Lartington Treatment Works , but its precise source has not been named . |
| 18 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 19 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon today warned that more IRA bombings were likely and the whole community should be alert , though he refused to comment on unionist security proposals . |
| 20 | The Israeli delegation wanted to concentrate on detailed discussion of the proposed Palestinian governing body ; the Palestinians insisted on discussion of overall concepts , rather than details . |
| 21 | Historically , we tended to concentrate on high volume products and maximum utilisation of capacity . |
| 22 | Freud shared this evolutionary perspective with these early writers in sociology , and he too attempted to build on biological knowledge about man . |
| 23 | Of the arriving crowd of 800 , some 150 stayed to watch on closed-circuit TV from the centre 's bar . |
| 24 | Fifa set to stamp on pro foul . |