Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generally , it remains true that the severity of the Monopolies Commission 's findings mean that the board is necessarily placed somewhat on the defensive about its investment appraisals , and will find all its investment assumptions scrutinised with some suspicion . |
| 2 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 3 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
| 4 | Most of the Pyrenean breeds , originally bred for work and naturally found also on the southern slopes with spanish breeds , are now rare . |
| 5 | The suspension generally is good , especially cruising fast on the open road , and the car ‘ flows ’ through the bends . |
| 6 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 7 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 8 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 9 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 10 | Specimens were gently spread out on a flat surface , flooded with 2.5% glutaraldehyde buffered in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate solution , and fixed for four to six hours . |
| 11 | England 's batsmen looked in decent enough form yesterday on a shirt-front pitch , nor does the heat appear to be causing them undue distress . |
| 12 | Most guitarists know people who can outplay them in some way and so most register somewhere on the meek and self-effacing scale . |
| 13 | The following household tasks are generally assigned purely on a cultural basis . |
| 14 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 15 | The answer is not to fall back on the offensive utilisation of a harmless birthday , but to write into constitutions strict regulations about terms of appointment . |
| 16 | This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ‘ crime ’ to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . |
| 17 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 18 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 19 | How could clothes not dry out on a warm sunny day ? |
| 20 | Similarly , interviews with pupils are included but were not carried out on a systematic basis and the results have not been correlated with pupils ' GT4 scores . |
| 21 | Not to marry , but just to meet up on a regular basis and do nice things together such as walks , long discussions about books and music , that sort of thing . |
| 22 | This is best done outside on a warm day , using a tub or baby 's bath , rather than in the bathroom itself . |
| 23 | The hammer finally slammed down on an empty chamber . |
| 24 | For the fox , use sand or a very light shade of tan ( not too dark or it will not show up on a dark background ) . |
| 25 | Remember that these are colour effects , and they will therefore not show up on a black and white viewfinder . |
| 26 | Go through an unobtrusive door at the back of the Trent Bridge pavilion then turn left into a book-lined room , and on any match day you 'll find the central table occupied by the owner of a moustache of impressively Victorian dimensions , like as not tapping away on a venerable-looking typewriter . |
| 27 | Travellers journeying into the town no longer look out on an industrial wasteland the ramshackle legacy of Darlington 's past . |
| 28 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 29 | This always included milk and green bananas , though the latter do not feature prominently on a wild orang 's menu . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |