Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 2 | The fellow shrugged and Athelstan tried not to concentrate on the great yellowing ulcer on the right side of his face , the pus now suppurating , bubbling out , staining his -cheek . |
| 3 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 4 | Lord Bath 's personal assistant refused to comment on the festive olive branch . |
| 5 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 6 | Scotland will hold a public practice at Murrayfield today , though part of it will likely be in camera — when the forwards head indoors to work on the hydraulic scrummaging machine . |
| 7 | There are 400 commitments to take forward in the next year — from proposals for new standards for indoor air quality to work on the major international agreements which we hope will be signed at the earth summit in Brazil in June 1992 . |
| 8 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 9 | That surely places a responsibility on any Government of any political complexion to trample on the bogus libertarian appeal of the tobacco and advertising industries that they are only offering choice . |
| 10 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 11 | The deterioration of relations between the two Korean states diminished any faint hopes of securing a compromise and Rhee ruled out using trade to improve contacts , UNCOK being left to reflect on the unstable internal situation and the combustible nature of the border along the 38th parallel . |
| 12 | Around 2,000 of the strikers attempted to march on the Supreme Soviet , but were held back by police in Riga 's Cathedral Square . |
| 13 | Yet the British advocates of EMU , such as Sir Leon Brittan , prefer to dwell on the supposed practical benefits , playing down the political implications . |
| 14 | IBM and Fiat Engineering were invited to participate and in 1987 the interdisciplinary Neapolis project was set up to focus on the vast archaeological site of Pompeii . |
| 15 | In bilingual communities undergoing a process of language shift , the sexes are likely to focus on the new monolingual norm at different rates ( Gal 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Finally , in the climax to episode five , the camera pans up the colonnades of Westminster Abbey to focus on the fully-grown alien monster , its fronds and tendrils twitching . |
| 17 | This has led planners to focus on the substantial private sector already in existence in some countries . |
| 18 | This led him to focus on the top social stratum as the primary location of anomie , for it was power and not poverty that facilitated too easily the personal achievement of socially inculcated cultural ambitions . |
| 19 | I have tried , although in a condensed form , to focus on the dominant technical problems of today 's art market . |
| 20 | For a few moments her still-sleepy eyes refused to focus on the dramatic black handwriting . |
| 21 | IAN WILLIAMS , A WELSH NURSE , WORKED FOR THE BRITISH RED CROSS IN KISMAYO , SOMALIA , IN THE SUMMER OF 1992 , A TIME WHEN THE WORLD 'S MEDIA CHOSE TO FOCUS ON THE CONTINUING CIVIL WAR IN THIS FAMINE-STRICKEN COUNTRY , HE SEES THE SUFFERING OF SOMALIA ROOTED IN CLAN DIVISIONS … |
| 22 | This back scratching may include taking data directly from the banks computer , but more often it provides details of the bank 's systems , which makes it easier for the enquiry agent to embark on the well timed impersonation . |
| 23 | For further acquisitions Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza intends to draw on the so-called third rank of paintings in the Thyssen Collection , bought in order to be sold on or exchanged for better works . |
| 24 | And , finally , take heed that all worthy citizens are invited to visit the company 's magnificent station at Raven Square and to ride on the mighty little steam trains which operate very day until the sixth day of September . ’ |
| 25 | Most people visit the town to ride on the Pichi Richi Railway a service operated through the Flinders Ranges by a veteran steam locomotive known as the " Coffee Pot " . |
| 26 | Describing the DC as " a rotten apple with a healthy core " , he proposed chiefly to build on the existing cross-party support for his proposals to reform electoral law by referendum . |
| 27 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of HP 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under the new agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 28 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of Hewlett 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under yesterday 's agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 29 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |