Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delicately placed on a slight ridge , left-centre and midway between gatehouse and river , the surviving columns of the forum balanced , lifting the eyes to the exactly right focal point in a sky of scintillating , tearful blue feathered with airy clouds . |
| 2 | It 's the one right bang on the main road ? |
| 3 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
| 4 | A queue had formed by the table holding the teacakes and a crowd gathered to watch the animal sacrifice slowly rotating on a giant spit . |
| 5 | It is not disputed by the Legal Aid Board , and indeed it is obvious , that the existing practice is highly convenient and may avoid unnecessary costs being incurred which would eventually fall on the legal aid fund if it were necessary in every case to set in motion a procedure for filing of evidence . |
| 6 | The failure of the meeting was widely blamed on the reported refusal of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates , two of the main over-producers , to offer production cuts . |
| 7 | Little knock on the right place … ’ |
| 8 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 9 | Only three republics ( Belorussia , Turkmenistan and Tajikistan ) eventually voted on the single question that had been proposed by the central authorities . |
| 10 | Their governments have long depended on the fat income their oil reserves reliably gave them . |
| 11 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 12 | ‘ The French , on the other hand , not only insist on a wide variety of fresh produce but demand that their chestnuts come from the Auvergne , their snails from Clermont , their frogs from Aurillac , capons from the Bresse , mutton from the Berry , asparagus from Lavris … . ’ |
| 13 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |
| 14 | Suggestive landscape descriptions , based on the countryside of Alain-Fournier 's childhood ( near Blois , in Loir-et-Cher ) allowed Minton again to delve into his now well-rehearsed repertoire of landscape devices , though unfortunately his original cover design was replaced by another in which the quintessential motif of a figure disappearing down a deserted lane is reduced to a miserable size and merely sits on the front cover like an enlarged postage stamp . |
| 15 | She never uses the central heating system , only turns on a single bar of her electric fire for about half an hour and then off again for another half hour or so . |
| 16 | They appear to be quite randomly arranged on the distal portion of the jaw although sometimes they appear to cluster in the region of the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 17 | Suddenly there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 18 | Before she could answer there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 19 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 20 | They were having dinner the following day when there was a loud knocking on the front door . |
| 21 | Adam was thinking about this interesting word that used to be simply another term for pine but which originally meant a certain size of plank , from the Low German dele , when there came a loud knocking on the back door . |
| 22 | Pausing only to pull on the lightweight wrap that lay across the foot of the bunk , she grasped the torch more firmly and peered cautiously around the curtain . |
| 23 | With water privatization looming large , and with prosecutions against farmers for pollution continuing at an arguably pitiful level , concern naturally focusses on the future accountability of water companies to keep water courses clean . |
| 24 | ‘ I only fly on the Russian Front . |
| 25 | So many track workers have been allowed to go that in some parts of the country we are not able to put gangs together to work on a proper maintenance programme . ’ |
| 26 | How do you bring a group of people together to work on an equal basis when half the members of the group are experienced non-disabled professionals who are used to taking control ? |
| 27 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 28 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 29 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 30 | Geopetal sediments in stromatactoid cavities , for example , may be difficult or impossible to see on unetched , polished surfaces ( Fig. 4.2a ) , but are clearly seen after etching ( Fig. 4.2b ) , although other features are better revealed on the polished surface . |