Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ‘ twenties the list of protected birds was small and this gentleman , Mr. Thomas , did quite a trade in song-birds which he used to catch on the downs around the city . |
| 2 | Perkin took Mackie to shuffle on the square of dance floor adjoining the table . |
| 3 | Since all foreign relief organizations dealt with Pomgol and with Eiduk as chief plenipotentiary , subsequent non-Russian scholars have tended to over-concentrate on the workings of Pomgol and its guberniia equivalents . |
| 4 | Shortly after the Berlin Wall came down , a leading East German art historian , well known for her extensive work on Socialist Realist painting , was invited to lecture on the subject at a West German institute . |
| 5 | Lucky Rob had all criminal charges dropped , but only on the condition that he put in two years ' community service , visiting schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs , talking to juvenile delinquents and visiting prisons in his home town of Drayton , Ohio . |
| 6 | Famous hunters such as F. C. Selous returned home to lecture on the value of big-game hunting as a means of training the next generation of empire-builders . |
| 7 | MERCHANDISERS were quick to jump on the popularity of Home Alone 2 . |
| 8 | There was no attempt to jump on the bandwagon of the more flamboyant recruitment advertisements for commission paid saleswork , for example : " I 'm Martin . |
| 9 | Competitors are certain to jump on the bandwagon with rival systems and Nimslo 's much-vaunted patents could be unable to stop them . |
| 10 | By the time the two sides prepared to meet on the field of Gettysburg , Llewellyn had risen to be the aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee the Confederate commander . |
| 11 | They can do if they want or they can progress onto other rooms to get time back that way , but anyway , ca n't you ? we have er a target to meet on the programme of X percentage time and they will meet that far Wednesday afternoon so we have n't continued and shown |
| 12 | Oswiu seems to have taken them by surprise and brought them to bay on the banks of the River Winwaed , now swollen by autumnal rains , and probably to be identified with the River Went , a tributary of the Don . |
| 13 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 14 | LETTERS then is a ‘ 2nd cycle ’ isomorphic with the ‘ lst ’ ’ , a recycling of Barth 's earlier characters whose destinies are expanded and brought to bear on the America of the late 1960s ( Barth 1980a : 656 ) . |
| 15 | Fundamental work , in welfare economics and philosophical ethics , will be needed to bring these tools to bear on the problem of global warming . |
| 16 | Sub-texts such as censorship , propaganda , patronage of book and manuscript production and the Vatican as publishers are brought to bear on the choice of objects . |
| 17 | The harsh treatment of this attitude , as experienced by the mother in the play could be interpreted two ways : either as evidence of the pressure brought to bear on the parent by outside forces , even family ; or as a positive sign that the mother 's position was wrong fundamentally . |
| 18 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 19 | The evolution of Swedish collective bargaining into a system of economy-wide agreements was greatly dependent upon the presence on both the employer and employee sides of a small number of organisations ‘ each large enough to bring crucial influence to bear on the development of bargaining issues across the whole labour market ’ ( ILO , 1974 , p. 340 ) . |
| 20 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 21 | Multiprofessional teams bring a range of educational backgrounds , training and expertise to bear on the management of individual cases , which ensures that care is not dominated by one single professional approach . |
| 22 | There are thus three distinct frames of reference which we can bring to bear on the concept of basic or general education : knowledge , culture and student development . |
| 23 | The same sort of alternative explanations can also be brought to bear on the variation in educational attainment that is associated with social class , in so far as this is attributable to educational attainment . |
| 24 | And you 've also brought your soul to bear on the work of the Board and the work of the church . |
| 25 | And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion . |
| 26 | Connon now brought his full attention to bear on the objects before him . |
| 27 | The principal aim of the Juvenile ‘ Rules ’ was to continue ‘ the supervision of the boy or girl , when placed , with a view to his or her further education , both technical and humanistic ’ and to bring to bear on the life of the adolescents ‘ all the influences making for industrial efficiency , for enlightened citizenship and self-realisation ’ . |
| 28 | Decisions therefore can be influenced by these active movements , e.g. greens , peace , and feminists , which highlight issues and capture the public 's attention and thus bring pressure to bear on the government during inter-electoral periods . |
| 29 | The ego tries to bring the perception of reality , the external world , to bear on the impulses of the id , which seek pleasure , without regard to the external reality in which the organism is placed . |
| 30 | The same logic can be brought to bear on the cases in which individuals co-operate . |