Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 2 | Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) . |
| 3 | Kitty took about a dozen tender puffs and then pressed the pad of her index finger most gently on the glowing weed . |
| 4 | When they entered the front room , Father Poole sat down wearily on the nearest chair . |
| 5 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 6 | If you do medical negligence work the employment of a nurse , perhaps only on a part-time basis , can save hours of wasted time and be very cost effective . |
| 7 | Probably too much so on the political side , in so far that er er looking back , it seems that w w we were isolated from other young people , in so far that we were associated with straight political er activity and er straight political movement . |
| 8 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 9 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 10 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 11 | The bass sounds good , although lack of internal screening means that unwanted noise is sometimes a problem — less so on the humbucking back pickup — and generally it copes with styles from driving rock to funky , thumb rattling sounds and smoother , jazzy tones . |
| 12 | A lump came to her throat and she sat down suddenly on the safest-looking chair she could find . |
| 13 | I have never spent so long on a single project . |
| 14 | Especially not on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 15 | gone down anyway on the basic rate |
| 16 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 17 | He 's still my coach now , obviously not on a full time basis because my home 's in Michigan . ’ |
| 18 | As was said earlier , since the Piper Alpha incident there has been a succession of serious incidents in the North sea , although obviously not on the same scale as Piper Alpha . |
| 19 | The fifth yacht to arrive in the space of eight hours , Rhone Poulenc , carried a crewman who 'd spoken to his family in Gloucester only once on the whole trip . |
| 20 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |
| 21 | Yes , the same thing is like erm , if I do , the rest of the shop for the rest of the d , that day , but I do goods the next night , erm , that shop 's okay for the next day , and it 's , it 's only like on a one day basis . |
| 22 | To free herself of it , Ronni sat down quickly on the wooden seat behind her . |
| 23 | Jochim to Speedy Ormanroyd 's lay-off a good one for Lewis gets it in quickly on the left foot Ormanroyd and then Speedy collided with Pearce as he went in to try and turn the ball goalwards and it 's all ended up a goal kick . |
| 24 | By contrast , in the second innings , when Australia 's tailenders had been sent in early on a wet pitch , Darling found himself going in No. 9 with 511 on the board and his side 635 ahead . |
| 25 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 26 | MARCH quarter results for the six gold mines in the Gold Fields of South Africa stable , are down marginally on the preceding quarter . |
| 27 | He put the pump-action down carefully on an oiled gun bag lying on the gravel . |
| 28 | Policy remains in the hands of people who do not have disabilities and who are frequently so far on the other side of the experiential divide between people with and without disabilities that ‘ objective policies ’ — that is , those which ignore the experiential divide — simply serve to reinforce the notion of disability rather than the values and abilities of those who are different . |
| 29 | Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered . |
| 30 | And so far on the mammoth project the TSDO troops have been sent in successfully thousands of times . |