Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will permit Burston to concentrate on production of feed for monogastric livestock , pig and poultry . |
| 2 | Most attempts at theory and empirical work have , however , tended to concentrate on investment in plant and machinery , particularly in the manufacturing sector . |
| 3 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 4 | Yeah , but er , this is usually you 've got to work on top of course you 've got ta |
| 5 | But in Using a Model for Nursing ( Roper et al , 1983 ) , the third year student nurse contributing to the study in a surgical ward , commented that the model approach helped her to appreciate the need for planned discharge goals ; even when admitting the patient , she was alerted to consider what the patient required to know on discharge in order to resume her usual Activities of Living . |
| 6 | Hick comes good to stand on brink of century |
| 7 | ( 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 . |
| 8 | To focus on labour in poetry must be judged an assertion of value . |
| 9 | Dragon is thought to draw on technology from Sun 's collaboration with Cray Research Inc to develop the non-massively parallel Sparc technology that Cray adopted with Floating Point Systems Inc ( UX No 369 ) , and may use Fujitsu Ltd CPUs . |
| 10 | In The Hague , Alatas told the Netherlands Minister for Development Co-operation , Jan Pronk , that Indonesia would not accept Netherlands aid — suspended after the massacre , but resumed after publication of the KPN 's findings — if the Netherlands continued to insist on linkage with respect for human rights . |
| 11 | Anselm was prepared to insist on enforcement without qualification ; but quite apart from Bishop Roger 's case , it was most unlikely that he would have , or could have , the co-operation of the bishops in this . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I repeat that , as a result of the Government 's policy , we had to import a vet every single day of last year to try to keep on top of animal diseases . |
| 15 | ‘ Gone are the days of large blueprints , maps and drawings as all of this information is now computerised and the originals have been translated to microfilm to keep on record for posterity , ’ said Phil . |
| 16 | It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water . |
| 17 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 18 | It will therefore be desirable to define the consequences of a failure to perform on time , for instance by stating that " time for performance is of the essence " , or by defining a term as a " condition " or by expressly providing that " if X fails to perform on time in accordance with this provision , Y shall be entitled to terminate this contract " . |
| 19 | Says Cedella , whose father 's record Iron Lion Zion , is at No. 5 a decade after his death : ‘ Only the boys were allowed to go on tour with Dad because he thought it was too rough for us girls . |
| 20 | THE world 's strongest beer — more than 17 per cent alcohol — is to go on sale by Christmas at pubs owned by London-based brewery Firkin . |
| 21 | It is in you my brethren , that I behold Narayan , for Narayan signifies ‘ God in man' ’ , and I am happy to go on pilgrimage from village to village in order to win every day the vision of God in the faces of my brothers . ’ |
| 22 | IF medals were to go on offer for patience then Don Kelly would certainly be entitled to collect one . |
| 23 | This traditional working class is likely to want to economise on housing in order to have money available to pursue other interests and needs . |
| 24 | Then in the third quarter the company will ship a beta AIX personality to sit on top of Workplace OS , with an OS/2 Personality following in the last quarter . |
| 25 | Then in the third quarter the company will ship a beta AIX personality to sit on top of Workplace OS , with an OS/2 Personality following in the last quarter . |
| 26 | Given the inability of the government and local authorities to agree on funding for community care , the report , not surprisingly , puts great emphasis on monitoring the progress of the reforms . |
| 27 | The chemical was liable to explode on contact with water . |
| 28 | The defendants supplied a chemical to the plaintiffs but failed to warn that it was liable to explode on contact with water . |
| 29 | There are more than 14 million people in the UK , young and old , who are entitled to call on SSAFA for help . |
| 30 | ‘ It falls to me , as it did first with Peter Shilton and then with Terry Butcher , to place on record on behalf of the Football Association what he has done for his country . |