Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you zoom in on that window then ? |
| 2 | You can zoom in on any area of the design by positioning a BOX around that area . |
| 3 | Here senior police officers sit in a windowless room , facing a bank of video-monitors and operating , by remote control , TV cameras which can zoom in on any area of the terraces or stands . |
| 4 | Can you cash in on unwanted space or possessions ? |
| 5 | The one-sided affair ought to have seen the hosts cash in on early superiority , even before Booth struck in the 31st minute to break the deadlock with a well-placed glancing header off Darren Ferguson 's corner . |
| 6 | The wonderful thing about literature is that great poetry can chime in on any thought or experience . |
| 7 | Denis just could n't fall down on this job ; he 'd have to get the money somehow . |
| 8 | Second , the NHS would focus more on acute hospital care ; thus chronically sick patients , who lack media appeal and who have never been able to compete successfully for resources within the NHS , would have a substantial part of their budgets protected within the proposed community care grant . |
| 9 | The session ended with agreement on structural reform which would focus more on encouraging analysis and policy studies . |
| 10 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 11 | ‘ After taking off from Bermuda , I thought I could catch up on some sleep . |
| 12 | UK competition policy , for example , does not focus solely on economic efficiency . |
| 13 | How else can you hang out on this planet for thirty years while still remaining free ? |
| 14 | ( Because research on human beings presents the greatest difficulties we shall concentrate initially on this area . ) |
| 15 | This sounds reasonable enough because no estate agent wishes to be negligent and if he was the court would direct accordingly on any case which came before them . |
| 16 | The test of relevance will be whether awareness of a fact does act causally on spontaneous inclination . |
| 17 | I can speak authoritatively on one form of resentment of authority which I have had to get to know — albeit unwillingly — in intimate detail : the student protest movement . |
| 18 | This would be all very well , if the plants of the phytoplankton could make do entirely on solar energy , which at least in the tropics is abundant all year round , and on carbon dioxide , which is always available in solution . |
| 19 | I disagree with the hon. Lady and I have no doubt that CBI ( Scotland ) would also do so on that matter . |
| 20 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 21 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 22 | Pictures of the protest will appear tonight on Brazilian television . |
| 23 | • Do n't give up on artificial respiration if the child does n't respond quickly . |
| 24 | Very undemanding as to its growing medium , it will grow well on any substratum . |
| 25 | In his account of EModE pronunciation , Dobson ( 1968 : 551 ) dismisses ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ dialectal ’ sources , and I shall comment further on this tendency in chapter 5 . |
| 26 | Once we have finalised our response to the Welsh Office , I think it would be very useful if we could meet you to explore shared interests and clarify how best we can work together on this issue . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Swedish-based Norsys Technology AB is picking up full-scale distribution of Objectivity 's ODBMS in Scandinavia : the pair will also work together on some customer projects . |
| 28 | It it 's not his best side er his right foot but you know he can weigh in on that side but er he does have a hunger for goals . |
| 29 | From 1992 , all new cars must come up to USA standards for emissions ; this means that all new cars will have to be fitted with catalytic converters and subsequently will run only on unleaded petrol . |
| 30 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |