Example sentences of "on [verb] [adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recommendation following from this diagnosis is that more attention should be directed to developing these kinds of competence in initial training , not least with regard to teachers spending more time on becoming more skilled and knowledgeable in their own subject specialisms . |
| 2 | Overall spending for environmental programmes was set to increase by $2,000 million , most of which would be spent on cleaning up radioactive and toxic waste at federal weapons facilities , preserving the country 's dwindling areas of wetland and researching into the effects of global warming . |
| 3 | Then , of course , there were the Bruces , Lord Bruce who should be preparing himself for death instead of being involved in politics as if he were some young courtier intent on rising as fast and as far as he could . |
| 4 | All you 've got to do is concentrate on getting out quick and running your own thing , not looking at the next guy . |
| 5 | Lesk explains that ‘ the idea is to select the correct sense of a word by counting overlapping words between the sense definitions and the definitions of the other words in nearby context … it depends for its success on having fairly long and informative definitions . |