Example sentences of "[to-vb] on a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 2 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 3 | There were four headmasters and they From Not from Girran because there was only the one high school , but from er Prestwick , Glenbuck and that , and the used to meet on a Saturday at Turnbelly to play golf . |
| 4 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 5 | In several of the countries we studied , we found strong evidence that good results can be achieved by community-based teams consisting of professionally-trained workers and a variety of paraprofessional personnel who bring their joint efforts to bear on a range of client and community needs . |
| 6 | As one of Scotland 's senior education professionals , he has brought his experience to bear on a number of organisations outwith the Council including the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , as education adviser , and the University Grants Committee . |
| 7 | You may be asked to concentrate on a pinpoint of light or on a particular spot on the ceiling while the therapist makes his suggestions of relaxation . |
| 8 | JUSTIN FASHANU , player and assistant manager of Third Division Torquay , is quitting football at the end of the season to concentrate on a career in broadcasting . |
| 9 | To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese ! |
| 10 | Mid morning he would yell out to the trainees during lulls in activity : " Everyone off the phone " When all had complied , he instructed them each to write on a piece of paper ten numbers out of the 40 that corresponded with the internal telephone lines . |
| 11 | Colchester Borough Council was asked by the county council , which makes planning decisions on landfill sites , to comment on an application for changes at Bellhouse Pit , Colchester . |
| 12 | Behind this basic structure , teams were found to differ on a number of variables . |
| 13 | The Meretz group , which formed part of the new Israeli coalition government [ see p. 39028 ] , signed on July 9 a coalition agreement with the Labour Party which recognized Meretz 's right to differ on a number of points . |
| 14 | rather than walk round with wads in your pocket every day , they liked to be able to work on a day to day pay system |
| 15 | Are there general principles which will determine the relevance or nature of the specification , or does the analyst have to make ad hoc judgements on these questions each time he attempts to work on a fragment of discourse ? |
| 16 | A graduate scientist is required in the Measurement and Instrumentation Section to work on a range of projects concerning analysis of beer and its raw materials . |
| 17 | The only problem with the job was that I had to work on a lot of Saturdays , which naturally interfered with my athletics , though the company were quite generous in giving me time off . |
| 18 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 19 | For that reason , he volunteered to look after Ron Martz , of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , and his ‘ primary assistant ’ , Lloyd Burchette , when they arrived in Nicosia at the invitation of the DEA to work on a series of reports about international drug trafficking . |
| 20 | Over last winter all the stud holes were drilled out and re-tapped and recently volunteers were busily repositioning support timbers to work on an area of rust on the front ring . |
| 21 | He was already contemplating a new play , but he had first to work on an essay on George Herbert which he had promised to Bonamy Dobrée . |
| 22 | More recently she headed over to Dublin to work on an album with producer Kevin Moloney who , in the past , has masterminded releases by the likes of Sinead O'Connor , U2 and Clannad . |
| 23 | On them you will find all you need to know on a variety of subjects such as : |
| 24 | His friends have also suggested that he would be willing to sell on a stake in MK Trafford Holdings , the Isle of Man-based company through which the bid is being made , in order to raise cash for the deal . |
| 25 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
| 26 | It is willing and able to feed on a variety of prey species , up to the size of antelopes . |
| 27 | Near-by , Pipkin and Dandelion were pretending to feed on a patch of scrub . |
| 28 | The new space will enable the three departments to exhibit on a three- to four-month rotating basis , showing up to seventy-five works per time . |
| 29 | On Sept. 3 troops were also seen to fire on a crowd in Sebokeng , killing 11 people . |
| 30 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |