Example sentences of "on [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you concentrate on maintaining the correct heading your feet will look after themselves . |
| 2 | Historically , the emphasis on maintaining the initial capital invested in a public limited company derives from the causes célèbres of the nineteenth century , when creditors were swindled out of their debts by PLCs which distributed capital as income thus leaving insufficient assets to repay creditors . |
| 3 | By not adopting the law on financing the Yugoslav bank for economic co-operation , 350,000 million dinars were saved . |
| 4 | Over £200,000 has been spent on transforming the old Patons ballroom in McMullen Road into a plush nightspot which will feature some of the top names in show-business on stage . |
| 5 | Ten years ago yesterday British Rail signed a million-pound contract so work could start on repairing the Victorian building 's roof . |
| 6 | It is finally uneconomical to go on and on repairing the sturdy Liberation trucks , the government argued : far better to stimulate the economy by buying a glossy new vehicle , and throwing away the old . |
| 7 | Most LIFESPAN users would benefit from reading this manual : programmers for practical information on how to create modules , module headers and packages ; project leaders for advice on handling the controlled development of modules and packages ; system designers and quality assurers for background information on project planning . |
| 8 | It has caused collection problems on a hitherto unprecedented scale , and more than £100 million worth of taxpayers ' money has been squandered on administering the wretched tax in Wales alone . |
| 9 | It appears that the bars over the as are also superfluous since ( on using the new notations + rather than unc etc. ) |
| 10 | Their correct application depends on using the correct units . |
| 11 | Even at that time , however , there was a difference between combinations and friendly societies — the one intent on using the collective power of the work force to make a change in real wages and the other developing a system of welfare services among members through cooperative effort . |
| 12 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 13 | They 've had a particular focus on assisting the economic transition in the region . |
| 14 | It is a large church for what has always been a small village — perhaps the work of some medieval lord of the manor intent on impressing the neighbouring gentry . |
| 15 | When Vincent wrote impulsively to congratulate Mauve on completing the big work he had laboured at for so long , he got no reply . |
| 16 | The work on producing the polarised atoms is being carried out by William Happer in the physics department at Princeton . |
| 17 | However , it appears that there is no way of reclaiming stolen objects once they have been traced , largely because the UK has never ratified the 1970 Unesco convention on prohibiting the illicit export of cultural property . |
| 18 | Indeed , asking subjects their first thoughts on seeing the critical slide confirmed that they were more likely to be thinking about the woman than the general environment in the arousal condition . |
| 19 | Much against the queen 's will , Alice Keppel insisted on seeing the dying king ; on being asked to leave the death chamber , she made an embarrassing scene and had to be escorted out . |
| 20 | These broke away sharply on seeing the British fighters which gave chase but were unable to catch them . |
| 21 | This is an important reminder for , on seeing the beautiful objects excavated from this charming little town , it is all too easy to forget its horrible end . |
| 22 | He was too intent on catching the female rogue who had taken his grey . |
| 23 | A four-point statement issued on Nov. 25 by the North Korean Foreign Ministry on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula proposed : ( i ) signing the nuclear safeguards accord ( NSA ) permitting international inspection of North Korea 's nuclear facilities if the USA began withdrawing its nuclear weapons from the South ; ( ii ) simultaneous inspection of nuclear facilities in North and South Korea ; ( iii ) North Korean-US negotiations on simultaneous nuclear inspection and the withdrawal of weapons , and ( iv ) North-South Korean talks on turning the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear-free zone . |
| 24 | And in 1949 Commander Kerans on bringing the damaged Amethyst , bottled up the Yangtse for two months by the communists , to the safety of the open sea : ‘ Have rejoined the fleet south of Woosung . |
| 25 | The new emphasis is on helping the economic Upturn which will bring down Unemployment , currently heading towards 3 million . |
| 26 | In the meantime the Goods are concentrating on helping the Cystic Fibrosis Trust . |
| 27 | If they were not employed , that did not mean that the legacy was at once void ; but if it was to be saved , all depended on construing the necessary verba sollemnia . |
| 28 | However , I shall leave this problem to one side for the moment and concentrate instead on pursuing the general line of reductivist strategy , which remains unaffected by the choice of basic entities . |
| 29 | Unlike the contortions in books by Jane Fonda and others , this one concentrates on shaping the top half of the body . |
| 30 | Homelessness has been on the increase for a long time and Government initiatives , based as they are on encouraging the private sector to fill the gap left by local authorities , have been essentially piecemeal and fragmentary . |