Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important that we have this opportunity to concentrate on the Bill as it affects Scotland . |
| 2 | Councillor Stevenson is well placed to comment on the carpet as he was once a weaver at Stoddard . |
| 3 | Officials did n't even want them to appear on the track as they stage-managed another two-hour show for the audience at home . |
| 4 | this method was essential as the vast majority of targets had Commonwealth forces bounded on each side , ready to pounce on the bandits as they attempted to flee from the air attacks . |
| 5 | The rest of their food was in the forest , their plan was to feed on the forest as they went . |
| 6 | There was little time to reflect on the implications as Prince Charles had already asked her to Balmoral for the weekend of the Braemar Games early in September . |
| 7 | My feeling is that while focusing on those we should attempt to focus on a solution as well . |
| 8 | Leeds continued to pile on the points as Iro burst through for loose forward Hanley to score a seventh try . |
| 9 | However , on Dec. 17 a motion which the Socialists had helped to draft , to indict Hervé and Dufoix but not Fabius for " failing to assist people in danger " , was blocked when the Socialists changed their minds and refused to vote on the motion as it stood . |
| 10 | We 'll move to the m move to vote on the motion as moved by Councillor . |
| 11 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 12 | ‘ Compulsive spenders suffer the same urge to go on a binge as compulsive drinkers , eaters or non-eaters , ’ declares Dr Christopher Cook of London 's Middlesex Hospital Psychiatry Unit . |
| 13 | Lyn put a cloth on a tray and laid it and on an impulse picked a small blue iris and put it in a vase to go on the tray as well . |
| 14 | And so erm we did n't wan na put them off and I like to be here because erm Bob likes to go on the Moor as well , so we shall go out on the Moor with the dog a couple of times |
| 15 | ‘ Honestly , how they get away with such stuff — it 's bad enough they take a large commission , but to sit on the money as long as they do … ’ |
| 16 | It did , however , illustrate how people in Britain often have good ideas for inventions but then have to sit on the sidelines as no one is prepared to back them . |
| 17 | The first great white flakes had melted on the pavements , now it was falling thicker and faster , building up on the window ledges and in the cricks and crannies , turning to slush on the roads as the traffic churned through it . |
| 18 | By road take the motorway N1 heading west from Bern , taking care in 12km ( 7 ½miles ) not to take the exit for Kerzers and Neuchatel but to continue on the motorway as it curves south and becomes an ordinary national road a short distance from Murten Murten lies beside the lake which bears its name , close to the linguistic frontier between French and German speech . |
| 19 | Cashman shouted , ignoring Matt 's hand , walking across the room to lean on the desk as though he was finding it difficult to remain upright without support . |
| 20 | I 'm about to get on the phone as well |
| 21 | Please feel free to tell the VAXnotes people how to get on the list as well : the numbers are still going up steadily — I make it just under 60 now — and there 's room for loads more . |
| 22 | ‘ A most telling stream of miracles ’ is related , and the King is recorded as having prophesied ‘ the Satanic horror of all those human rebellions against the Crown which were to rise , no longer in the British Isles , but in America and in France from the end of the XVIII century , and to develop on the Continent as well as in Africa and Asia during the XIX and XX centuries ’ . |
| 23 | Asda 's box of 24 chocolate cakes will have something for everyone , and all the stores offer a selection of cheeseboards and cheese biscuits which are ready to lay on the table as soon as the packaging has been removed . |
| 24 | Lacking reliable counter-sources , the Americans had to rely on the world as constructed by Manucher Ghorbanifar . |
| 25 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 26 | Yet she , thought Vi , was as free as the air , with no home to worry about , no children to rear on a pittance as Mam had done . |