Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 2 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 3 | Much obviously hinges on this word ‘ normal ’ and the accepted idea of family life . |
| 4 | In a 3- or 4-year programme of studies , and with the broadening elements occupying a minority of time and probably concentrated towards the latter half , graduates will have only just begun on this voyage of critical reflection . |
| 5 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 6 | Each a master from one of the schools , they had obviously totally disagreed on some decision . |
| 7 | Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night . |
| 8 | ‘ The Government has so far concentrated on short-term actions and pension law reform . |
| 9 | As yet without a record deal , Charlie had so far concentrated on live gigs . |
| 10 | Although this review has so far concentrated on those findings which reveal most clearly opposite visual hemifield superiorities for verbal and non-verbal ( especially visuo-spatial ) stimuli it is impossible for one familiar with work in this field not to be struck by the lability of the laterality effects reported ( Cohen , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | In both works the centrepiece is a soprano solo reverently rendered on this occasion by Linda Howie . |
| 12 | It is good to see Moorcock 's work finally being given the attention which is so often lavished on lesser writers . |
| 13 | It could also explain why the goats have not increased there as they so often have on other islands . |
| 14 | Even though my bike and rucksack were miles away on the platform of Fort William station , I can not remember being so profoundly moved on public transport , unless you count the time I thought I saw Sean Connery on the Piccadilly Line . |
| 15 | He felt a childish satisfaction in having that advantage on one who had claimed to be so well informed on such matters . |
| 16 | He had thus unwittingly stumbled on salicylic acid , the active ingredient in aspirin . |
| 17 | But this will involve an examination of the whole question of walking for pleasure , which is what we most usually do on these occasions . |
| 18 | It is still widely used on citrus fruit , soybeans , coffee beans , tobacco , cotton and other crops . |
| 19 | Hence newspapers and the judiciary are more intimately interconnected on this topic than on many others which are the subject of journalistic interest . |
| 20 | While still loosely based on this approach , modern dating systems try to provide a continuous sequence . |
| 21 | While still loosely based on this approach , modern dating systems try to provide a continuous sequence . |
| 22 | The cover is usually only granted on portable/mobile plant and the wording makes clear that General Exception 2 relating to fire , theft , etc. does not apply to this cover . |
| 23 | Pisticci is a small town in Southern Italy still largely based on agricultural employment . |
| 24 | The lesion is not always easily detected on endoscopic examination , especially when it is not actively bleeding . |
| 25 | He had never seen fear more clearly written on human faces and for a brief second he was puzzled . |
| 26 | More importantly , this extra help is more clearly focused on those groups with the greatest needs — less well-off pensioners , disabled people and low income families . |
| 27 | Using this kind of information , promotional messages and direct mailshots can be more selectively targeted on those categories which are the company 's best and most consistent customers . |
| 28 | He demonstrates , for example , that the British Labour Party was most likely to find support not simply from the working class but from that sector of the working class which still strongly relied on collective provision . |
| 29 | The Jonathan Wren survey is more modestly based on 453 City placements over the past six months ; but these , too , show much bigger increases achieved by mobile fund managers ( over 26 per cent , with an average salary of over £50,000 ) than messengers ( less than 10 ½ per cent , with an average salary of under £7,000 ) . |
| 30 | So sanctions must be ever more rigidly enforced on all fronts and the lesson driven home that Serbia will remain a pariah state until a peace is in place . |