Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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1 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
2 | But she has long scored highly on the qualities of being decisive , resolute , and principled , a perception helped by the Falklands war and the comparison until 1983 with Michael Foot , the Labour leader . |
3 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
4 | But the reason I have sat down so quickly is because the old man has just popped out on the northbound platform . |
5 | It is possible in fact that the extent to which agricultural work is carried out depends greatly on the availability and profitability of alternative sources of employment . |
6 | China has now tightened up on the access of social scientists to rural areas . |
7 | IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign . |
8 | Today apart from some obvious signs of 20th century living , this oucnilc house in Tadmarton has n't changed much on the outside . |
9 | Chairman Murray has yet to comment publicly on the situation , but the Roker staff clearly want the issue resolved quickly . |
10 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
11 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
12 | The harsh lights that the photographers had used still glared down on the scene . |
13 | Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room . |
14 | ‘ Only this jumpsuit 's going through at the arse and the bellbottoms are getting well chewed up on the pedals . ’ |
15 | Any falling short in doing so reflects more on the teaching than on the students ' preparedness to respond . |
16 | How much they can take in depends partially on the structure of their leaves . |
17 | Some people that are local may have even driven here on the Sunday , just to see how to get here , so that on the Monday morning when it 's the rush hour , they knew generally where they were going to go . |
18 | Accordingly , she went on to play primarily on the Yiddish stage , where , with her impish manner and tiny build — her toes , she said , never reached the end of her stockings — she soon became a star . |
19 | Aycliffe coughed , and his glance drifted away to rest unseeingly on the shelves of books as he spoke . |
20 | Sooner or later the predator will end up feeding preferentially on the most abundant of the available types of prey . |
21 | Diseases of the liver and digestive system , motor vehicle accidents , accidents in the home and mental disorders are all commonly related to alcohol , and drinking also impinges powerfully on the work of social services , where child abuse is often related to parental drinking , and on the work of police and probation services . |
22 | I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it . |
23 | A large set of genes concerned with mimicry in butterflies became tightly linked together on the same chromosome , so tightly that they can be treated as one gene . |
24 | We 're all theologians , but we do obviously depend heavily on the help of the professionals . |
25 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
26 | He did not sleep much on the plane . |
27 | Darby said the machine had obviously had heavy wear and not been well maintained : the ‘ d ’ , for example , was slightly twisted and the capitals in ‘ MacQuillan ’ did not sit firmly on the line . |
28 | In the peacetime years of the Third Reich , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ did not rank prominently on the scale of priorities of most of the German population . |
29 | The orchestra did not miss out on the fun either , starting with an unscored game of hunt-the-missing-French-horn-part ( eventually found lurking on the bassoonist 's stand ) , which delayed the start . |
30 | Some such explanation seems called for , given the fact that in many ways the two theories of Reich and Freud did not disagree fundamentally on the one area of the need for sexual reform . |