Example sentences of "[to-vb] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires a depth of human understanding , an ability to communicate on a one-to-one basis with different characters , and I do not believe that Frank can do this very well . |
| 2 | While non-verbal communication of the kinds described above have a powerful role in underlining , reinforcing or betraying our feelings and aspirations , the moment we try to communicate on a wider scale than inter-personal , we must look at other sign systems to convey meaning . |
| 3 | J j just agree with client he might , might be prepared to accept on a quarterly basis |
| 4 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |
| 5 | The aim was to provide a facility for professional women to meet on a regular basis , exchange ideas and experiences and discuss topics of mutual interest . |
| 6 | Teacher Researcher groups are expected to meet on a regular basis . |
| 7 | The moderation teams continued to meet on a regular basis , to provide feedback and consider further ways of setting and maintaining national standards . |
| 8 | In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated . |
| 9 | The proclamation will have summoned the Parliament to meet on a specified day and it is up to the victors to turn up on that day at the time prescribed . |
| 10 | Past experience is brought to bear on a new situation by a categorisation , a process regarded as central to thinking by Bruner and his colleagues ( 1956 ) . |
| 11 | Deanne Petherbridge 's explosive imaginary architectonics emanate from this artist 's acute critical investigations into drawing as a genre and its media ; she brought her awareness of the new art history and gender studies to bear on a recent selection of works in pencil , charcoal , pen and ink , etc for a touring exhibition . |
| 12 | This may be organized and justified in various terms : as a group of cognate or faculty disciplines such as the social sciences or humanities ; as a number of disciplines brought to bear on a common area ( European Studies , Middle Eastern Studies ) or period ( Classics , The Enlightenment , Modern Studies ) or problem or theme ( Development Studies , Urban Studies ) ; as a sampling of some or all of the main types of human knowledge , as provided by the foundation year at Keele University ; or as a deliberate contrast between different types of knowledge ( arts-science schemes ) . |
| 13 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 14 | William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry were given airline packs of colouring books and puzzles but chose to concentrate on a new computer game . |
| 15 | These functionally convenient but artificial demarcation lines have made the timetable easier to handle and have provided security for teachers who knew that for a single or double period their task was to concentrate on a specific subject . |
| 16 | I want you to concentrate on a specific area , so you want to retain control . |
| 17 | Target-oriented programmes tend to concentrate on a small number of permanent or semi-permanent methods ( sterilisation or IUD ) to minimise dropout rates . |
| 18 | It has never been more important to concentrate on a particular area where your business can obtain a pre-eminent position , and to understand the basis of that pre-eminence . |
| 19 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 20 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 21 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 22 | They can advise their clients [ customers ] on all aspects of the law although many tend to concentrate on a particular area . |
| 23 | And manager Geoff Butler has told his Beazer Homes League men to concentrate on a secret catchword which , when shouted from the dug-out in the heat of the match , is designed to trigger their attention . |
| 24 | Because the neutral gas is strongly confined to the plane , in a first analysis it is convenient to concentrate on a thin slice around b =0° , where b is galactic latitude ; this two-dimensional slice through the data cube contains all available information about gas in the plane . |
| 25 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 26 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
| 27 | In May 1977 the policy was amended , when it was decided to concentrate on a few tourist growth points in areas of rural depopulation where there was unrealized tourist potential . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By the mid-1950s his growing reputation enabled him to concentrate on a literary career . |
| 30 | As Winston Churchill was to write on a different occasion , ‘ at first the steps were wide and shallow , covered with a carpet , but in the end the very stones crumbled under their feet . ’ |