Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thinker , already a winner of the race , stands at 20-1 , but he is difficult to train and even more difficult to catch on the right day . |
| 2 | Rugby World & Post will be better off by ceasing to ululate on the supposed demise of John Gallagher at Leeds and simply grant him an interview instead — I ca n't be the only admirer of this great All Black fullback to want to find out what is really going on . |
| 3 | Charman was able to drum on the B-side track , ‘ ( The Moment Before ) Everything 's Spoiled Again ’ . |
| 4 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 5 | Trends have since changed , however , and Mudhoney have forced themselves to jump on the major label bandwagon , if only to survive . |
| 6 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 7 | Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use . |
| 8 | Elected to Parliament in 1885 , Wilson was able to bring pressure to bear on the Liberal Party , both for repeal and for a wider programme of moral reform and social disciplining . |
| 9 | It needs to be seen as part of the renewed offensive launched by militant evangelicalism in the 1880s , which influenced a whole range of single issue campaigns and brought pressure to bear on the Liberal Party hierarchy . |
| 10 | What sources of power can groups and key individuals bring to bear on the budgetary process ? |
| 11 | As customers if they do n't get the quality that they want they need to bring pressure to bear on the in-school supplier . |
| 12 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
| 13 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 14 | It is this quiet , persistent ‘ epidemic ’ that is the focus of a current photographic exhibition which is designed to bring international pressure to bear on the Peruvian government . |
| 15 | In contrast the authoritarian nature of Tanzanian politics can more usefully be measured by the number of political detainees which exceeded several hundred in the mid 1970s or in terms of the degree of pressure brought to bear on the rural population from 1974 to 1978 . |
| 16 | Instrumentation and instrumental techniques necessary for bringing the laws of the paradigm to bear on the real world will also be included in the paradigm . |
| 17 | The authority of the archbishop of Canterbury continued to bear on the Northumbrian Church . |
| 18 | He brought his considerable intelligence to bear on the tiny village where he lived . |
| 19 | For Hopkins as for Blackwell , feminism centrally meant bringing the private sphere of bourgeois womanhood to bear on the public world of social and moral problems . |
| 20 | to bear on the profoundest tragedy |
| 21 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 22 | Initially , therefore , it is necessary to concentrate on the primary substance or process of addiction because this may be life-threatening . |
| 23 | In the first section on interpersonal conflict we are going to concentrate on the mutual relationship of parents and children . |
| 24 | Peace with Russia enabled the German forces to concentrate on the western front before the troops arriving from the United States of America could be fully deployed , so in the spring of 1918 , a massive Germany attack was launched and their troops came within fifty miles of Paris before being halted . |
| 25 | What we can do , however , is to concentrate on the commonest group of small animals ( in fact the commonest group of all animals ) , the insects , and study their life-cycles . |
| 26 | Dragging about her every shred of the detachment she had learned over the years , she forced herself to concentrate on the immediate future . |
| 27 | Trying to concentrate on the printed page |
| 28 | Would n't it be more appropriate for you to concentrate on the spiritual welfare of your people ? ’ |
| 29 | Claudia was at last putting her unhappiness to one side and was ready to concentrate on the all-important show . |
| 30 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |