Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , you will have shown your ability to accept a brief on either side , or even to be promoted to the Bench . |
| 2 | Because of a lecture I gave last weekend I 've to write a paper on how P R audits can be applied to the military which is great fun and an acknowledgement that people of a senior level were listening to my lecture but , um it 's put quite a bit of work on me . |
| 3 | It also sought to initiate a debate on how we can start regenerating the north of England and develop a more balanced nation . |
| 4 | The potato was not widely used directly as food in England until the nineteenth century , although its capacity to sustain a family on very little land has been credited with the rapid Irish population growth from the late eighteenth century ( Connell 1950a , Langer 1975 ) . |
| 5 | It would be wrong to encourage such a move before it is possible to form a view on how the orders have worked out in practice . |
| 6 | The user pre-sets the timer to put a limit on how long the appliance may stay on while not in use . |
| 7 | He really wanted to do a play on maybe Broadway at the time — something different . ’ |
| 8 | MI5 decided to do a trace on pretty well everybody who 'd been to Cambridge and Oxford during the thirties and showed communist sympathies . |
| 9 | Never mind that : at ten o'clock tomorrow we have Professor Thornton , distinguished economist , Oxford don and friend of the Prime Minister , here for five weeks to do a study on how effective regional assistance is , and we have no one to meet him . |
| 10 | Wanted to do an article on how I 'd built the company from nothing . |
| 11 | Extras are diving , most of the excursions and all drinks not taken at mealtimes , so it 's a good idea to keep a check on how your bill is running up . |
| 12 | Clearly the departments intend to keep a check on how it is spent , and they can even check the local authorities ' own financial manoeuvres by the powerful instrument of loan sanction . |
| 13 | — Try to keep a check on how often it is used and get feedback on how it went . |
| 14 | One point to keep an eye on here is that the page printer has sufficient memory , a full page graphic at 300 dots per inch needs about 1M of RAM . |
| 15 | The author 's been unable to resist popping down to the set once in a while to keep an eye on how it 's going . |
| 16 | By drawing attention to the need for funds the ambulance service hopes to spark a debate on where the money should come from … health authorities , the NHS , or the Government . |
| 17 | On 24 February 1986 , LAG issued a booklet , Lignite on the Loughshore — the case for community survival , which they circulated among politicians , universities and the media to increase awareness of the issue and to increase pressure on the British Government to hold an inquiry on both the environmental and social impacts of the mining . |
| 18 | I would not wish to have a debate on only the ERM because many other matters need to be raised . |
| 19 | They said , " You 've got to have a lesson on how to make up bottles " , so I said , " I already know , there 's no need " and they said , " We want to make sure " . |
| 20 | Lloyd 's needs to get a grip on more ‘ safe ’ business to offset its increasing tendency to be at the wrong end of big disasters such as Piper Alpha . |
| 21 | Lloyd 's needs to get a grip on more ‘ safe ’ business to offset its increasing tendency to be at the wrong end of big disasters such as Piper Alpha . |
| 22 | The foot was too big to get a boot on so I put on two woolly socks and a plastic bag . |
| 23 | Perhaps the key factor which leads the teacher to make a decision on where to start and how to continue is that of ‘ protection ’ a concept to which we need to devote the final section of this chapter on emotion . |
| 24 | George feels that he has to make a decision on how to approach the next phase : ‘ Though I did n't wish to retire , the first three months were like a holiday . |
| 25 | As chairman Sir Peter Thompson explains in his statement , ‘ With the spotlight on corporate governance following the report of the Cadbury Committee , we have felt it right to make a statement on how the group complies with best practice in this area . ’ |