Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 2 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 3 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 4 | One of the salient features about this process is a phenomenon that might be described as endogenous economies of scale : more business is attracted to contracts with low bid-ask spreads ( i.e. high liquidity ) , and that attracts more market makers and more arbitrage and speculative activity on the exchange , and this increased competition drives down bid-ask spreads and so on in a virtuous circle . |
| 5 | But where such mutuality is non-existent ; where through some personal need ( based in earlier life and relationships ) the woman finds her greatest satisfactions in motherhood rather than in marriage ; where male inadequacy sees neglect in anything but total attention ; or where circumstances exist in which addition to the family unduly diminishes the expression of sexual love between two partners : personal and sexual dissonance is likely to arise , which will lead to further marital rifts , which will themselves militate against sexual happiness … and so on in a vicious spiral . |
| 6 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 7 | Ignorance of the union world was underlined early on by a detailed target list itemizing the amount sought from each union . |
| 8 | Two principal types of construction are used : on street sections grooved tram rail is laid directly on to a solid track-bed , while on the Promenade it is spiked to wooden sleepers . |
| 9 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
| 10 | Carry straight on up a rough track — this is the Minchmoor Road . |
| 11 | Follow the track down and go straight on to a modern farm track . |
| 12 | First , it seems clear that although the wide range of credit types which are available should let people easily find and use their best-value choice , lack of knowledge and the very widespread practice of tacking a particular credit arrangement almost automatically on to a particular shopping transaction combine to make rational choice of credit relatively rare . |
| 13 | The afternoon progressed , but was moved now on to a different plane , lit by the glow of expectation . |
| 14 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 15 | The car purred smoothly on along a narrow lane lined with trees . |
| 16 | The Midlands will make one change against the South-West at Bath , recalling the England hooker Brian Moore , who has twice withdrawn from the side late on with a twisted knee . |
| 17 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 18 | She follows him through a courtyard at the back , under an archway , and then on to a rough grass path that disappears into the trees . |
| 19 | Three German events of distinction ( Hamburg Ballet , Musica Antiqua of Cologne and the Richter Exhibition ) led to a link with the Mozart anniversary , and then on to a splendid series of concerts , in which we offer some of the very best of the German ‘ classical ’ tradition from Bach to Brahms . |
| 20 | Both Davide and the plaintiff 's lawyer chuckled afterwards that he was definitely on to a good thing . |
| 21 | The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page . |