Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 2 | It would be both remarkable and alarming if that change alone did not bring greater scrutiny to bear on the perennial dilemmas of NATO strategy and of roles and responsibilities in the Alliance . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the Grayson expertise is also being brought to bear on the chattering teeth and highly strung ways of Holly , part Jack Russell companion of Joan Mason of Durham . |
| 4 | On his eastern border , Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom . |
| 5 | Dr O'Reilly has exceptional marketing experience and talents which when brought to bear on the solid foundations of these businesses should help create a new level of profitability . ’ |
| 6 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 7 | Every available battery was brought to bear on the French guns , but many of these had taken up position behind the parapets of the forts clustered on the Bois Bourrus ridge and were consequently most difficult to hit . |
| 8 | Toscanini was clearly very much in tune with Mendelssohn 's music , but as in the case of other composers he tended to concentrate on a few scores , and not always those which were best . |
| 9 | Less reliance on power bases is found in managers who have the tactical and interpersonal skills to concentrate on the essential objectives . |
| 10 | But there 's some awkward ones and they 've got to concentrate on the awkward ones so that you get this impression I ca n't spell anything . |
| 11 | Maybe if she and Julie did n't have such tiring , exhausting jobs they might have more time to concentrate on the culinary arts . |
| 12 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 13 | He is likely to concentrate on the 200 metres this year before moving up to 400 metres as a second-year senior boy next year . |
| 14 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 15 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 16 | After each separate exercise allow a minute or so for fuller relaxation to take place and for you to concentrate on the pleasant sensations that relaxation brings . |
| 17 | Thus historical fiction , which once tended to concentrate on the grand thoughts and actions of grand people ( sorts of super-persons ) , now provides the means of closer contact between the present-day reader and the past . |
| 18 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 19 | Innocent began now to concentrate on the imperial bishops and on securing practical support for Otto , who in turn was exhorted to assume a manly attitude and in short " to live up to " the title to which he had been called . |
| 20 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 21 | In fact both sides ( at different times ) gave out conciliatory signals , but in the highly charged atmosphere between the two countries each chose to concentrate on the hostile signs and ignore any others . |
| 22 | The advice of the Government and the Audit Commission is to concentrate on the main risks , and if town halls persist in targeting women 's institutes , church fetes , village halls or charity teas , the Government will take action . |
| 23 | It should guide the learner to concentrate on the main points and help him/her follow the argument or the plot step by step . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Even the Trade and Industry Select Committee , which produced a lengthy report on the investigation system during 1990 , almost totally ignored the very existence of the s 447 enquiries , preferring to concentrate on the public inspections . |
| 26 | Therefore , some of the larger single roses become giant-sized once they are pressed , and can really only be used for big arrangements on walls , such as murals , so try to concentrate on the smaller varieties of rose , as you will still be astonished at their relative size once they are pressed . |
| 27 | Although in actual practice the Formalists tended to concentrate on the formal qualities of literature , this was because formal devices were taken to be the means whereby defamiliarization was realized . |
| 28 | This is difficult , particularly as most studies of the effects of the plague have tended to concentrate on the fourteenth-century epidemics , the Black Death of 1348–49 and the further outbreaks of the next generation , rather than on the recurrent visitations of the fifteenth century ( see Framework ) . |
| 29 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 30 | Most respondents interpreted the question as an invitation to comment on the wider issues surrounding the nature and scope of the Compensation Fund , and these are discussed below . |