Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What used to happen was that rain would fall on land and permeate through the ground to the ground water levels , but urbanisation has meant more roads , houses , car parks and the water ca n't soak through , instead it goes into drains , is treated and then goes into the sea . |
| 2 | The more inelastic is demand relative to supply , the more a tax will fall on purchasers as opposed to sellers . |
| 3 | Clown Loach might also prey on eggs or fry . |
| 4 | It 's also pretty wet but with the ratchet block taking the strain out of controlling the sail I can concentrate on technique and having fun and respond to the gusts by sheeting in or sheeting out if I 'm overpowered and moving bodyweight in or out to suit the . |
| 5 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
| 6 | We will concentrate on styling and giving them a different driving feel . |
| 7 | Indeed Congress will concentrate on debating and deciding issues of a wide spread and common concern to all our members , such as finance , the rulebook including the structure and organization of the union , our political , economical , economic and social policies . |
| 8 | As the Italian inventor may discover , the music industry does not flourish on recordings that sound right only on headphones |
| 9 | Although the FDIC would continue to exist it would now focus on insurance and deal with failed institutions . |
| 10 | Planning for discharge should commence on admission and include assessment of the home circumstances and support available . |
| 11 | JTR did not land on Coll but sketched part of the village from the St Clair as she hove to in the bay for disembarking passengers and goods . |
| 12 | It is a rule that they do not appear on TV or talk to the Press . |
| 13 | This means that the rider can help his horse should he peck on landing or hesitate into a fence . |
| 14 | She would work on Lucenzo and coax an address from him . |
| 15 | Much of the time pupils will work on sources that have been carefully selected by the teacher . |
| 16 | The evening resumes in the bar have some merit in linking in the activities we do not see on film but had an embarrassing ‘ bar bore ’ quality . |
| 17 | Secondly , the exporter could insist on payment or make out a bill of exchange in DMs and thus transfer the foreign exchange risk to the importer . |
| 18 | ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain . |
| 19 | MEMBERS of Dyfed County Council 's highways and transportation committee will decide on Friday whether to continue the Sunday morning town bus service in Aberystwyth , operated on an experimental basis since last October . |
| 20 | Maggie could not depend on Phoebe and knew that she would not . |
| 21 | More important is the effect that dropping dutyfrees may have on air and ferry fares . |
| 22 | What impact will that have on unemployment and housing benefits and every other consideration ? |
| 23 | On that night the spirits of mischief were supposedly abroad , characterised by small boys who would knock on doors and run away . |
| 24 | I thought I 'd go on board and talk to Sabine . |
| 25 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 26 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 27 | ‘ Let's go on Saturday and see . ’ |
| 28 | anyway Bob said oh you 'll see him on Friday , I says Bill is a busy bloke you know , I says you ca n't just go on Friday and expect to do it over weekend |
| 29 | L does not change on drawing but does from about 230 at draw ratio 5 to 460 at draw ratio 30 , p changing from 0.053 to 0.402 correspondingly . |
| 30 | In Outremer the stars seemed closer , the velvet darkness of the heavens so near you felt you could stand on tip-toe and pluck the lights from the sky . |