Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signed to a major label , The Wedding Present sit rather awkwardly on the edge of acceptance into mainstream pop . |
| 2 | A Victorian public building on a grand scale , even if the French top of the tower sits rather oddly on the rest of the classical design . |
| 3 | He pressed on and on , resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing . |
| 4 | The glass was placed gently back on the counter in front of Newman . |
| 5 | Ten minutes later they all met together again on the bank . |
| 6 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 7 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 8 | The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional . |
| 9 | British Rail tells us that the 5.51 Sheffield to Paddington train is 15 minutes late this evening , but I 've nothing to report so far on the buses . |
| 10 | A team of four individuals working together in a brainstorming session is likely to perform less well on the number of ideas generated than if the four individuals worked on their own . |
| 11 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 12 | But these are frustrating conditions for a dedicated drifter who does n't feel entirely happy unless at least one drifting vane is bobbing somewhere out on the horizon . |
| 13 | The 5th Brigade , which Leslie 's regiment supported , moved slowly forward on the division 's right . |
| 14 | Although Muslims in some areas paid cizye , the burden of this tax bore most heavily on the Christians , who were required to pay for every male of twelve years of age on a sliding scale , according to his assessed wealth . |
| 15 | He probably lies somewhere out on the Steppes , together with so many of his companions . |
| 16 | they 'll fall right out on the floor among the |
| 17 | The Varga Plants , a wound from whose thorns replaces a man 's thoughts with an overwhelming urge to kill and turns him into one of themselves , grow naturally only on the planet whose laboratories have developed them : Skaro , home of the Daleks . |
| 18 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
| 19 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 20 | The President 's desires , which weighed so heavily on the negotiators , could not be admitted except in code . |
| 21 | The drop in punters is being blamed only partly on the recession . |
| 22 | To be able to concentrate so fully on a race needs good board handling skills , since you should n't have to think about how to sail the board fast . |
| 23 | The karateka then pivots halfway round on the ball of the left foot , while rotating the entire body forward . |
| 24 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 25 | By encouraging a shared and coherent approach to planning and decision-making , LMS could be a means of enabling schools to concentrate more collaboratively on the quality of learning . |
| 26 | At the same time , erm if his mother 's death intensified his illness , it also freed him to concentrate more fully on the writing of his novel . |
| 27 | This contrasts with the initial reactions from other companies , including the US-owned Amerada Hess , which concentrated more narrowly on the loss of PRT relief on drilling costs . |
| 28 | He does n't go home after the game , you see , not worth it , has his tea here and starts straight in on the beer . |
| 29 | And it looks now down on the bench which is er just down beneath our commentary position here as though Neil Webb is taking off his er track suit and will come on shortly . |
| 30 | Names mentioned as possibly on the short-list are Paul Stern , lately of Northern Telecom Ltd and seen as having enemies among IBM 's present top brass ; Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson , Motorola Inc chief executive George Fisher and Louis Gerstner , chairman of RJR Nabisco Inc . |