Example sentences of "[to-vb] on other " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regional Sports Councils ' resources consist of MONEY ( through regional participation grants for specific projects ) , INFLUENCE ( brought to bear on other agencies ) and TIME ( in terms of sports council personnel ) . |
| 2 | For the former it allowed the husband time to concentrate on other enterprises whilst in the case of the latter it reduced the work that had to be done by the husband on his return from his off-farm job . |
| 3 | There are still many people who think ( perhaps a better word is ‘ hope ’ ! ) that a gyro can do all the work of controlling the tail and thus leave the pilot free to concentrate on other things . |
| 4 | For observers who find the pace of the SCAN analysis too demanding , or who wish to concentrate on other things , the coarse observation kit uses checklists which the observer fills in at the end of each short teaching episode . |
| 5 | The council said the courses would be no more than half a full GCSE course , allowing pupils to concentrate on other subjects they choose . |
| 6 | We felt quite strongly that although it was a gesture , I do n't think it was a political gesture , I think it was a gesture that we as Councillors wanted to make so that we personally would suffer some of the reductions in erm finance that we were going to impose on other people . |
| 7 | I want the independent inspector to be able to comment on other aspects of Government policy . |
| 8 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 9 | Miller fully expects Solaris 2.0 to appear on other CPU architectures in future , courtesy of third parties . |
| 10 | The two companies are likely to work on other management features such as the co-ordination of their Management Information Base for use on popular network management systems and the definition of a common network management database for their products . |
| 11 | Time is not wasted by the temptation to work on other papers and you do not feel ‘ bogged down ’ by the amount of work you have to do . |
| 12 | Cartoonist Christine O'Leary , who used to work at Barkers Trident and is now freelance , gets to work on other pages with graphics and illustrations . |
| 13 | Instead , we had to play on other people 's grounds . |
| 14 | Therefore we have been unable to report the hoped for release of financial resources to use on other services . |
| 15 | If we have such a debate , it will be possible for him to raise this matter , as he will be able to do on other occasions . |
| 16 | Afterwards I will have to knock on other doors but I am sure that yet again the right door will open at the right time . |
| 17 | These provide firms with product and service differentiation that allow them to compete on other bases than merely those of costs and prices . |
| 18 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 19 | To define law in terms of one means of obtaining conformity , especially when that means is a manifestation of one of the very phenomena that we are seeking to eliminate ( the use of force ) is to foreclose on other perhaps more defensible methods . |
| 20 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 21 | I begin by joining my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) in lending my full support to the Prime Minister in everything that he said , and in giving my full support to the motion — although I fear that my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley and I may not be able to agree on other matters , with which I shall deal later . |
| 22 | The Minister replied that the duty of information officers was not only to follow commissioners and MPs but also to report on other matters . |
| 23 | Counsel for the applicant advised that the examination be limited to the issue of the applicant 's fitness to plead and that the defence should instruct their own forensic psychiatrist to report on other possible defences . |
| 24 | As debt must be serviced to avoid defaulting on creditors , planned ‘ cuts ’ in local expenditure particularly in periods of rising interest rates — invariably have to fall on other revenue items , such as salaries , running costs and services . |
| 25 | You have to die on other people 's terms , and that 's a bore , love them as you might . |
| 26 | It 's also illegal to trespass on other people 's land , so stick to the footpaths . |
| 27 | The two governments agreed to call on other EC countries to accept firm deadlines in achieving self-sufficiency in treating their household and industrial waste . |
| 28 | In the departure lounge there was a crowd of passengers waiting to get on other planes , and also a lot of doctors , police , and newspaper journalists . |
| 29 | One-armed , Eb resented having to depend on other people to assist him . |
| 30 | This means that the kind of discount which supermarkets , for example , are able to offer on other consumer goods can not be applied to books . |