Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Saintsbury , Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh , in his presidential address to the AGM of the Scottish branch in 1907 , emphasized the importance of bringing the influence of the Association to bear on questions of education when they came before the legislature . |
| 2 | The example cited is the impossibility of auditors ' giving an opinion on the code recommendation that non-executive directors are to bring independent judgment to bear on issues of strategy , performance , and so on . |
| 3 | He had slept little these past three and a half weeks , often waking of his own accord in the pre-dawn darkness and walking through to his personal study to attempt to concentrate on papers of state . |
| 4 | This is what the evidence suggests since , while the tempo of mergers and acquisitions ( both domestic and cross-border ) has been rising rapidly , it is also apparent that some industries have been engaged in divesting themselves of activities which are peripheral or difficult to manage in order to concentrate on areas of strength . |
| 5 | Where this is impossible , an alternative approach is to concentrate on studies of variation in breeding success within cohorts but , even here , problems will arise if breeding success is consistently related to longevity . |
| 6 | This will permit Burston to concentrate on production of feed for monogastric livestock , pig and poultry . |
| 7 | I shall say more of this a little later on , but for now I want to concentrate on aspects of privatisation . |
| 8 | Neither party was allowed to comment on matters of regionalism , ethnicity or religions and both were careful not to criticize the current economic austerity programme of the President , Maj.-Gen. |
| 9 | It has been the long-standing practice of Leaders of the House not to comment on matters of security within the Palace of Westminster . |
| 10 | Volvo has refused to comment on reports of merger talks with Renault . |
| 11 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 12 | For our part , we were not prepared to compromise on standards of safety and quality . |
| 13 | Yeah , but er , this is usually you 've got to work on top of course you 've got ta |
| 14 | Hick comes good to stand on brink of century |
| 15 | You would be expected to provide the committee with legal advice and to rule on matters of procedure in accordance with the authority 's standing orders . |
| 16 | The judge , Mr Justice Auld , had directed that the men had no case to answer on charges of manslaughter or arson . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 18 | Agencies and landlords are not legally allowed to discriminate on grounds of race but ways are invariably found around this . |
| 19 | In the 1970s , partly due to growing criticisms of marginality , which were linked to the increased strength of dependency theories , attention switched away from housing to focus on problems of employment and the economic structure . |
| 20 | The intention was to focus on programmes of care to meet the needs of different client groups , and to plan services jointly . |
| 21 | , production manager at the UK company , part of Courtaulds Packaging , said : ‘ It has enabled us to focus on areas of development for each individual in a controlled way . |
| 22 | Of course , from a strictly scientific viewpoint these individual biographical studies can be criticised on the grounds that they are biased towards rather special cases ; added to which , as Becker points out , such accounts were usually written by clinicians whose professional interest in the abnormal inevitably caused them to focus on signs of pathology . |
| 23 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |
| 24 | 17.21 Teachers should both create and respond to opportunities to focus on aspects of knowledge about written language and about some of the differences between speech and writing . |
| 25 | They 're sort of things to focus on points of focus within when you 're receiving Confirmation of the ways in which through Confirmation you can enhance the gifts which you already have and focus in on the power of the Holy Spirit through those gifts . |
| 26 | As it was , she had to draw on reserves of courage she had n't even known she possessed just to get her through the opening number . |
| 27 | The shop stewards movement , contrary to the arguments from some quarters , would not necessarily be demobilised in a context of incomes policy , but would be able to use its bargaining strength at enterprise level to insist on measures of control over the broader issues of enterprise policy . |
| 28 | However , a few hundred men aged between 18 and 60 who have been trying to leave on grounds of illness were told they must obtain a certificate from an army doctor . |
| 29 | Progress , already available on the DEC VAX and IBM AS/400 , as well as most Unix-based platforms , will allow existing Progress applications to run on top of HP 's Allbase/SQL relational database . |
| 30 | Anil Gadre , vice president of systems product marketing at Sun told Unigram a couple of weeks ago that a Sparc version of Novell 's Portable NetWare would arrive soon : meanwhile it 's thought the two will shortly announce NetWare SunLink to run on top of Sun 's Solaris 2.0 for Intel Corp platforms , which is thought to be a key part of Sun 's bid to capture a share of the Unix-on-Intel market . |