Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 2 | there should be a requirement for firms to report quarterly on the adequacy of their financial resources ; |
| 3 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't suppose you had time to see much on the way here ? ’ |
| 5 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 6 | I decided to go alone on the Sunday morning . |
| 7 | You could be very happy if you are not putting your enjoyment in second place or you could be making the most enormous compromises because you lack the courage to go alone on the sort of holiday that you would really enjoy . |
| 8 | An alternative approach , which will be adopted in this chapter , is to concentrate rather on the possibility of identifying divisions which pertain to particular object domains and which may not be consistent with any cohesive representation or society . |
| 9 | By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled . |
| 10 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
| 11 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |
| 12 | At last , the hand — held European anti — tank missile BRITAIN , France and West Germany have decided to work together on a family of new missiles that will destroy , tanks . |
| 13 | By Aug. 27 the US Defence Department and the ICRC announced that they had agreed to work together on the airlift . |
| 14 | The staff members that are transferred may have a frustrating period before they become acquainted and learn to work together on the project . |
| 15 | To stand together on the Piazzetta in the early morning and look across the shimmering water to San Giorgio Maggiore . |
| 16 | However , a rule that is easier to remember and to follow is : never allow the horizon in a scene to come exactly on the centre line of the frame . |
| 17 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
| 18 | Like a lot of weekends you 'd leave , you 'd leave the T A centre about eight and then from eight o'clock Friday night too about , well you 'd be working until about three o'clock Sunday afternoon , and you are lucky if you 'd got three or four hours sleep working you do n't notice , you get tired but you do n't feel that bad and it was only like I used to come home on a Sunday crash out about sleep about . |
| 19 | ‘ Your place is miles across the city , and I have to come home on the bus every night , so there 'll be no meeting in the evenings . ’ |
| 20 | You were quite happy for me to come home on the bus . |
| 21 | No they used to come home on the Thursday , we 'd perhaps did n't kill them till Monday . |
| 22 | They were not prepared to comment further on the matter . |
| 23 | They should not consist of invitations to comment directly on the policies of other parties in the House , for which the Prime Minister has no responsibility . |
| 24 | In view of the problems involved with breaking up large firms and the difficulties likely to be encountered in trying to control their behaviour , competition policy in the UK has tended to concentrate more on the preservation of a competitive market structure . |
| 25 | A PLANE was turned into a makeshift surgery when a doctor was forced back to work early on a flight home from the sun . |
| 26 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 27 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 28 | He forced it close enough to the edge to allow the Toyota to creep past on the inside . |
| 29 | Through time , many goldsmiths decided to concentrate purely on the deposit , note issue and loan-granting aspects of their business , and , as a result , a large number of private banks were established , mainly in the City of London . |
| 30 | This dematerialisation is taken a stage further when his soul becomes like a bird which can fly away , completely freeing itself from society or any distractions to concentrate solely on the contemplation of itself . |