Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very interested in astronomy and he used to lecture on the stars and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | At present , if there is an objection to bail on the ground that the young offender may commit another crime while on bail , there are two alternatives . |
| 3 | They may choose to jump on the bandwagon and agree with the decision that will be made anyway or they may choose to cosset disagreements . |
| 4 | Broadcasters are quick to jump on the Press when they feel public opinion is that the papers have Gone Too Far . |
| 5 | ‘ No first night of the sixties was more volcanic than that of What the Butler Saw ’ , says Orton 's biographer , John Lahr ; while Stanley Baxter , who played Dr Prentice , has recalled the ‘ militant hate ’ of the audience , some of whom ‘ wanted to jump on the stage and kill us ’ ( Lahr , Prick Up Your Ears , 333 — 4 ) . |
| 6 | If that does n't score highly enough to win a contest the next stage is to grapple on the ground until one player wins by holding down an opponent for 30 seconds . |
| 7 | He raised his fist and was about to hammer on the door when he heard sounds . |
| 8 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |
| 9 | I hope your excellent paper will bring pressure to bear on the media and make April 23 a special day , and make the English realise they want to be ruled by their own countryman . |
| 10 | They may well be as overjoyed as all the erstwhile opponents in high places who brought such pressure to bear on the republic while apartheid existed . |
| 11 | He has brought a profound influence to bear on the belief that preventing illness is not simply a matter of treating the individual . |
| 12 | The strategy of deciding to concentrate on the Hotel and Leisure Markets has proved to be successful . |
| 13 | At such moments it was difficult to remain calm , but she forced herself to concentrate on the figures until eventually the task was finished . |
| 14 | Jenkins had decided to concentrate on the bar and closed the rooms . |
| 15 | I have not followed international football for well over twenty years , preferring to concentrate on the bread and butter of non-League soccer , so I have no idea what Alf Ramsey thinks . |
| 16 | The three main headings , and I 'd like to concentrate on the de-regulation and the flexibility points rather than administration of this . |
| 17 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 18 | Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded . |
| 19 | That back-up service would also allow our full-time officers to concentrate on the recruitment and servicing of our members , which must and must only be and remain our highest priority . |
| 20 | ‘ It leaves me free to concentrate on the show and anyway , I 'm not there just to play my favourite records . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the session she lights the candle , the children sit round it in a large circle and she asks them to watch the flame , to concentrate on the flame and nothing else . |
| 22 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's great news for us but now we have to concentrate on the football and try to achieve a good result , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Television is such a visual medium that we all tend to concentrate on the images and not the words . |
| 25 | UDCs were to concentrate on the reclamation and servicing of land and not , on the whole , on the development of that land . |
| 26 | Unable to concentrate on the whys and wherefores , she turned her attention to the booklet entitled Forthcoming Events . |
| 27 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 28 | I was asked to concentrate on the motion and the Bill and that is what I intend to do . |
| 29 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 30 | Did you want a pen then to write on the board or not ? |