Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really think he should have been going to try on a left footed shot from there . |
| 2 | For other purposes it is appropriate to concentrate on a specific sequential task and illustrate the order of events involving human actions ( e.g. Figs. 1 . |
| 3 | And not for Descartes either , who expelled them in order to concentrate on the immediate mechanical causes of natural phenomena . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 6 | Lord Bath 's personal assistant refused to comment on the festive olive branch . |
| 7 | They are the same phenomenon as water seeming to appear on a dry English road on a sunny day . |
| 8 | A ROW was raging last night after it was revealed that a sex-change model agency chief is to appear on a top Irish TV show . |
| 9 | Applications are invited for a research assistant to work on a three-year SERC-funded programme based at Sheffield University . |
| 10 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These members , with the exception of John Ayrton Paris , recently elected president of the Royal College of Physicians , agreed to serve on a temporary mixed board of medical and veterinary examiners . |
| 18 | Many social workers fail to visit on a regular preventive basis and requests for assistance or cries for help are often ignored . |
| 19 | Around 2,000 of the strikers attempted to march on the Supreme Soviet , but were held back by police in Riga 's Cathedral Square . |
| 20 | Yet the British advocates of EMU , such as Sir Leon Brittan , prefer to dwell on the supposed practical benefits , playing down the political implications . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a callous thing to do , to prey on a vulnerable elderly woman . ’ |
| 22 | A C2 might be a joy to paddle on a dancing rapid but out on the Pacific Ocean it behaved like a submersible beast . |
| 23 | A dark interior greeted her and she blinked , trying hard to focus on a handsome young brown-skinned man coming towards her . |
| 24 | The new centre will enable the German aircraft makers to focus on a local German-run operation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This has led planners to focus on the substantial private sector already in existence in some countries . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I have tried , although in a condensed form , to focus on the dominant technical problems of today 's art market . |