Example sentences of "[vb infin] on the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Objective 4 would concentrate on the adaptation of workers to industrial change and changing production systems . |
| 2 | The research will concentrate on the use of crops to produce energy and fertilisers ; the development of human and animal vaccines to combat tropical diseases ; the improvement of fermentation techniques and the applications of genetic engineering in agriculture and food processing . |
| 3 | Nor will it concentrate on the panoply of improbabilities — orbiting battle stations , particle-beam weapons , deadly X-ray beams — beloved of star warriors in days gone by . |
| 4 | This chapter will focus on the capacity of children to use language as a vehicle for communication once they reach school age . |
| 5 | This chapter will , therefore , focus on the idea of instincts as developed by Freud . |
| 6 | I shall focus on the role of headteachers and how to deal with them in Chapter 7 . |
| 7 | The commercial marketplace , however , does not wait on the outcome of standards efforts , which are traditionally interminably slow processes . |
| 8 | The insignificant proportion of men in the £3 — £9 range would appear on the face of things to betoken no handicraft beyond what would suffice to satisfy demand in a small hundred , while the many nils , amounting to very nearly one-third of the total , strongly suggests that many of the inhabitants of Walsingham were mendicants subsisting on the alms of the faithful . |
| 9 | The first concerns what might ( following American terminology ) be called ‘ political questions ’ : because courts are neither representative bodies nor responsible to the electorate , they should not pronounce on the reasonableness of decisions which raise issues of ‘ high policy ’ . |
| 10 | with his companions Dr Candlish and Dr McKellar , who were appointed by the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland to visit and report on the state of matters throughout the Highlands and Islands , started in Islay and spent their one night with Mr Ramsay at Kildalton . |
| 11 | with his companions Dr Candlish and Dr McKellar , who were appointed by the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland to visit and report on the state of matters throughout the Highlands and Islands , started in Islay and spent their one night with Mr Ramsay at Kildalton . |
| 12 | to test and report on the suitability of applications requiring dispensation ; |
| 13 | From the case 3 curve we can decide on the percentage of accesses corresponding to the 10–90 per cent packing points , i.e. 11.1 per cent , 22.2 per cent , … of records . |
| 14 | In differentiated goods markets firms may compete on the number of brands they put on the market , in quality and in marketing ( including advertising ) . |
| 15 | The logical development of the technique , the establishment of embryo donor banks , will depend on the verdict of committees looking at ethics . |
| 16 | Much will also depend on the structure of organisations : the benefit from integrating the databases of separate departments may not be as great as the costs involved . |
| 17 | Much would clearly depend on the availability of resources , as some RACs stated that they had insufficient to meet even the targets for induction contained in Circular 11/77 while others indicated that all the targets would be met with existing resources . |
| 18 | To summarize , presidents do not depend on the trading of favours alone . |
| 19 | How well each gender group fares in a scheme will therefore depend on the balance of questions at each level . |
| 20 | The original creative concept did n't depend on the use of computers , but its execution did . |
| 21 | But he admits , cost-effectiveness does depend on the number of users involved — with up to 100 users it is cheaper to use Unix , while he personally would n't suggest running a mainframe with fewer than 200 users . |
| 22 | Chaplin to such cases , though that will require reconsideration of the current view that the weight of authority in the Court of Appeal does not depend on the number of judges hearing the appeal . |
| 23 | This will depend on the number of records if each record is to have its own address . |
| 24 | The charges made will vary with different brigades , and will depend on the number of vehicles and fire fighters attending the incident , and the number of hours spent on the job . |
| 25 | However , a cash underpinning is not entirely the same thing as a vendor placing because it will not be known exactly how many shares will be the subject of a sale ; that will depend on the number of acceptances of the cash underwritten alternative . |
| 26 | Pricing will depend on the number of modules picked up , entry level price is £5,000 and up . |
| 27 | Unless effective schemes can be designed , Malaysia 's timber industry may depend on the establishment of plantations , as has been suggested as the saviour of African forestry ( see above ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It has obviously set back our restoration work , ’ Mr Rutter said , ‘ but the worst aspect is the effect it will have on the morale of volunteers . |
| 29 | Children do occasionally comment on the length of dresses though , and have to solve the problem of the dress that is too long for them to walk in , or the jacket which is too small . |
| 30 | Deferred taxation is not provided in respect of liabilities which might arise on the distribution of profits of overseas subsidiary companies , due to the availability of foreign tax credits . |