Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Komarek said on April 9 that Reichel had been relieved of his posts because he wanted to concentrate on election work for the Czechoslovakian People 's Party , of which he was a member . |
| 2 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Van Uden model of language-learning is the assumption that it is permissible to concentrate on language structure at the cost of language function . |
| 4 | Further , they noted a tendency to concentrate on cement stratigraphies to the exclusion of many other diagenetic events , such as dissolution , compaction , stylolitization , neomorphism and mineralization . |
| 5 | Great idea , wish them great success , but are they going to provide on site facilities on a stadia format . |
| 6 | In April nineteen fifty-eight a British nuclear bomb was detonated on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean . |
| 7 | We 've picked on Tank Farm for the simple reason |
| 8 | Finally , attention will focus on island communities in the developing world where land-use has created specific environmental problems that are frequently related to watershed abuse . |
| 9 | The programme represented a departure from previous campaigns in that it concentrated on building belief in the ability to make decisions for oneself , and it used social cognitive theory techniques to ‘ inoculate ’ children against chronic self-doubt or learned helplessness . |
| 10 | Drain the grid by touching the edge to filter paper , allow to dry partially under an incandescent lamp , and then place on filter paper in a Petri dish to complete drying . |
| 11 | Two teacher-fellows have been appointed , one for May and one for September 1986 , to work on Language provision across the curriculum and a reading response . |
| 12 | Although the section will be relatively small to start with ( because the number of students involved in pilots is only a small proportion of all those taking Advanced Courses ) , over the next few years more staff will move across from traditional examination work to work on quality assurance as the number of students in validated courses grows larger . |
| 13 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 14 | I , I , something floated in front of my eyes that she was thinking of applying on part time for the complaint examiner , but she did n't . |
| 15 | In November last year Natalie Pearman , a young Norwich prostitute , was found strangled on waste ground in the city . |
| 16 | The two girls swam until they were tired , then lazed on beach towels on the grass under the palm trees . |
| 17 | Costs Strathclyde , hit proportionately harder , has been like a man living on starvation rations throughout the eighties . |
| 18 | This is named on Ordnance maps as The Cavern ; from the surface it promises little , but an opening at the base of a low cliff admits to miles of subterranean passages , one long section being so roomy that it has earned the name of Duke Street . |
| 19 | This new layout could not be dated precisely within the later first or early second century , though it may well have followed directly upon the final levelling of the military ditches , dated on pottery evidence to the late Flavian period . |
| 20 | Students who are nationals of one of the member states of the European Community ( other than the United Kingdom ) and who are accepted on undergraduate courses at the University of Ulster will , in most cases , be eligible to receive a mandatory award to cover the payment of fees . |
| 21 | Children do not appear on memorial brasses until the 1420s , though by the 1450s they were a regular occurrence . |
| 22 | Whereas we have discussed orderly variation in spelling ( above ) by looking at distribution within a single text , the evidence for early [ h ] -loss depends on spelling variation across a number of texts . |
| 23 | Nevertheless it remains to be varified whether villus height is relevant to the previous dietary history — that is , nitrogen supply quality — and whether it depends on body weight at the time it is measured . |
| 24 | The remaining members will be balloted on strike action within the next few days . |
| 25 | The Indonesian government has embarked on large-scale commercial harvesting of sago palms in Irian Jaya ( the western half of New Guinea ) , threatening the livelihood of tribal people who depend on sago starch as a basic foodstuff . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the other partial theories depend on quantum mechanics in an essential way . |
| 27 | Two huge frying pans were being wielded on charcoal fires by a pair of vividly made up girls in blue jeans and flowered blouses . |
| 28 | LIPHOOK Civil Service Retirement Fellowship met on election day at the village hall as their usual venue at Liphook Church Centre was being used as a polling station . |
| 29 | About 5.5 million public-sector employees have had a 1.5pc ceiling imposed on pay awards by the Government , but it is thought lower interest-rates may have encouraged people to spend . |
| 30 | A freeze was imposed on wage payments in a large part of the public sector . |