Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the questionnaires and the structured interviews tend to concentrate on what the customer likes and dislikes , rather than why . |
| 2 | Our natural tendency to concentrate on what the program does and what appears on the screen can easily leave the class in the role of passive spectators , with exercises added almost as an afterthought . |
| 3 | A third party coming into possession of confidential information is accordingly liable to be restrained from publishing it if he knows the information to be confidential and the circumstances are such as to impose on him an obligation in good conscience not to publish . |
| 4 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 5 | So Coffin had to work on him a bit first to get him to think laterally . |
| 6 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 7 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 8 | ‘ We have to focus on what the customer actually wants . |
| 9 | It is quite common in talking about teaching to focus on what the teacher does and to forget the effect this may have on the learner . |
| 10 | To focus on his no doubt sinewy power , |
| 11 | Really that was n't actually dis the staffing issues themselves were n't discussed , but just to recap on what the situation is with the staffing issues and what 's meant by that . |
| 12 | It can be seen that pluralists tend to disagree on what the functions are , and even on their number . |
| 13 | That 's the next step we st we may need to treat your tummy with something else after that but I think that 's rather go going to depend on what the chest X-ray shows , and how you feel . |
| 14 | He made a mental note to check on what the builder had been up to . |
| 15 | I wanted to lay on him the burden of our fractured present . |
| 16 | For when God freely wills to take on Himself the world 's suffering , He does so in order to absorb it , to transform it and to overcome it by the positive power of His eternal and unchanging love . |
| 17 | So far we have tried to impress on you the importance of having one set of notes rather than a mass of different notebooks or scraps of paper . |
| 18 | And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned . |