Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it means that it has to go on the other side of the road , could we please have that . |
| 2 | The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle . |
| 3 | One lawyer needs to work on the collective ideas and draft the documents . |
| 4 | It 'll go the distance — a real investment for anyone who wants to get on the gigging trail and means business . |
| 5 | But it is certainly the object of quantum mechanical discourse and , for all the peculiarity of its collapse , its subtle essence may be the form that reality has to take on the atomic scale and below . |
| 6 | Any more points anybody wants to make on the demographic aspects ? |
| 7 | He plans to continue on the all weather at Southwell and Lingfield up to Christmas . |
| 8 | Poulantzas , on the other hand , characteristically refuses to debate on the empirical ground of ‘ bourgeois sociology ’ and denies that any degree of social mobility could have a material bearing on the Marxist analysis of the class structure . |
| 9 | Jacklin , 48 , the former Ryder Cup player and captain , who now lives at Biggar , plans to campaign on the senior circuits of the world when he comes of age next year . |
| 10 | What about the cattle which our bird and animal loving army allows to graze on the latter , or do they not matter ? |
| 11 | According to the judge , the ‘ decency clause ’ another compromise with Congressmen who threatened to dissolve the NEA was so vaguely worded that it tends to impinge on the First Amendment 's guaranteed right to freedom of speech . |
| 12 | To people in racing , there was nothing more suspect than a professional who allowed outside concerns to impinge on the real world — the world of racing . |
| 13 | Data retrieval service provider Phonelink Datacare Plc intends to float on the Unlisted Securities Market to fund growth . |
| 14 | This tends to focus on the physical symptoms of soil erosion and finds its expression in maps of soil loss or erosion hazard , but it also includes other spatial , tangible variables such as land use , stocking densities and the geographical expression of the flow of energy between people and the biosphere . |
| 15 | For further acquisitions Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza intends to draw on the so-called third rank of paintings in the Thyssen Collection , bought in order to be sold on or exchanged for better works . |
| 16 | In suburbia , however , the scourge of the skips tends to descend on the public highway in spring and summer . |
| 17 | It is a matter of common observation that shingle tends to accumulate on the higher parts of the beach while the lower parts are essentially sandy . |
| 18 | Our basic goal is to modify both methods as far as we can to reduce these limitations , and then combine both approaches to converge on the linguistic system we hope to describe . |
| 19 | Male and female take turns to perch on the bulky drum-nest of seaweed , incubating the single stained white egg . |
| 20 | Already LLNL has tried it out on nerve gas surrogates such as dimethyl methyl phosphonate and methyl phosphonic acid , and it seems to work on the crucial C-P bonds . |
| 21 | The poem 's beginning is certainly biblical , drawing on Ecclesiastes , but it also involves the modern world ( ‘ factory … bypass ’ ) , and deliberately seems to draw on the biblical passage closest to Frazerian fertility rites , the dead being reborn through the seasonal cycle . |
| 22 | This monolithic structure of Hamilton 's makes a powerful impression but seems to depend on the innate sense of tonality of the listener , to complete the part of the puzzle that 's missing . |
| 23 | In fact , the degree of repetition we can tolerate seems to depend on the special ability of a composer . |
| 24 | Their marketing , and the use of brand names similar to those of the licensed products , seems to rely on the understandable difficulty that consumers will have in distinguishing genuine products from false . |
| 25 | The treatment tries to concentrate on the physical ideas and interactions involved , rather than on detailed mathematical analysis and computer results , which are available in the original sources as well as elsewhere in this book : most calculations lead to one or more of the so-called " universal " routes to chaos . |
| 26 | In practice it pays to start on the bigger warren systems rather than on the smaller isolated burrows with their limited number of entrances and bolt-holes . |
| 27 | He continues to work on the stalled Uruguay Round of GATT talks , and in his speech to the American Legion in August , he talked about more bilateral agreements with other parts of the world . |
| 28 | The affair thus highlights the unreality of the common-law rule which continues to concentrate on the independent judgment of a police officer who is in fact simply obeying instructions which are issued as part of a general policy not necessarily susceptible of being influenced by the specific facts of particular cases . |
| 29 | In the end he decides to sell on the open market ; he 's against the TI takeover , but needs the cash to live on now he 's redundant . |
| 30 | Although Carter 's is shorter , he manages to touch on the major theoretical preconceptions which underlie current pedagogical applications of stylistics without obviously privileging any one . |