Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of those lamented that a judgement against Koons could mean the end of ‘ appropriation ’ , a practice in which artists either manipulate or simply reproduce images from other sources to comment critically on the social core of notions of meaning or beauty . |
| 2 | A maid jumped and began to scream shrilly on the same note as her mistress . |
| 3 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 4 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 5 | This enables several users to work simultaneously on the same document by locking on to the section relevant to them , rather than accessing the entire thing . |
| 6 | Far better to take it in stages , to concentrate purely on the shortest of short-term problems . |
| 7 | In educational contexts , it is important to concentrate particularly on the actual equality of the language spoken by individuals in school . |
| 8 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 9 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 10 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 11 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 12 | Having fleshed out the frames of the characters , Whitaker virtually gave Coburn a free hand in his teleplay , needing to concentrate instead on the vast amount of work involved in reshaping the series with the loss or deferment of so many storylines . |
| 13 | Since no amount of economic reductionism or political explanation alone will expose the roots and distinctive characteristics of the province of Ulster by the late Victorian period , the aim of this investigation is to concentrate specifically on the important contribution made by evangelical religion , from the early penetration by Methodism in the mid eighteenth century to the political crises surrounding Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 15 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 16 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 17 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 18 | Although the position of the mouth indicates it is a bottom feeder , it does rise to the side to feed enthusiastically on the freeze-dried tubifex and swims in the lower middle areas of the aquarium . |
| 19 | Under water , their needle-like , razor-sharp teeth enable them to take fish as slippery as eels , through they are not good enough swimmers to prey regularly on the fast-swimming fish such as salmon or trout . |
| 20 | Clinton needs 2,145 delegates to win outright on the first Democratic Party ballot at the July convention . |
| 21 | Our mentors and brothers at the Subud enclave encouraged us to focus only on the inner world , and to avoid exploring the dangerous but tempting " illusory " world of " Maya " outside . |
| 22 | And when I bribe a willing campesina to buy a train ticket for me — gringo tourists are not supposed to use cheap local transport but to stick together on the ninety dollar tourist train — I shall be continuing a gentle descent into the lushly green Urubamba valley that , eighty kilometres beyond the small town of Aguas Calientes , becomes thick , matted jungle ; becomes a hideout for Sendero . |
| 23 | This was to focus especially on the apparent difficulties of resettling the mostly elderly long-stay population of the asylums . |
| 24 | The restructuring will enable it to focus better on the two areas of its expertise in both wide area and local networks . |
| 25 | The public tend to focus more on the one penny than on the quarter of a million illegal profit and conclude that the incident is insignificant . |
| 26 | But for those who wish to focus more on the current century , there are three other deals — a five-year fixed rate of 7.99 per cent ( arrangement fee £245 ) , a two-year fixed rate of 6.79 per cent ( arrangement fee ) £225 ; and a one-year deal of 5.79 per cent ( arrangement fee £175 ) . |
| 27 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 28 | But we wish to focus here on the particular problems involved in the transfer of information from producers who are external to users who are internal . |
| 29 | The load was fixed across the poles of shafts by means of a wicker basket or a wooden container made to fit horizontally on the sloping shafts . |
| 30 | Accordingly , she went on to play primarily on the Yiddish stage , where , with her impish manner and tiny build — her toes , she said , never reached the end of her stockings — she soon became a star . |