Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 2 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 3 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 4 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 5 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 6 | A smaller patch of lesser quality vines extends southwards on to the north-east-facing slopes of Mont Aimé . |
| 7 | She threw herself backwards on to the wooden desk , and swung her legs high above her . |
| 8 | He obliged by hitting a vast drive about fifty yards beyond Harley 's , who then got his second shot just on to the front edge of the green and about forty feet from the flag . |
| 9 | All readers probably assimilate Gollum early on to the now-familiar image of a ‘ drug-addict ’ , craving desperately for a ‘ fix ’ even though he knows it will kill him . |
| 10 | But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure . |
| 11 | Early on in the present government 's administration a representative of Fabius warned that if research was to get the money it required , other ministries would suffer . |
| 12 | The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside . |
| 13 | Ken 's equally eccentric behaviour towards her became evident early on in the out-of-town try-outs in Brighton , Liverpool and Oxford . |
| 14 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |
| 15 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 16 | But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism . |
| 17 | The real danger of course is the forthcoming Police bill the proposal which were instituted by the present er Treasurer , erm er the Chancellor er and instituted further on by the present Home Secretary would lead to a centrally appointed Police committee at least fifty percent and a centrally appointed chairman , paid by the Home Secretary much rather like the Leicestershire Health Authority and of course this will severely undermine the local democratic accountability of the Police service . |
| 18 | The gravel can be laid directly on to the firm ground , but constant walking in wet weather will pound the gravel into the softened earth and you will , after a year or two , have to lay a fresh load to build up the path again . |
| 19 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 20 | In the past it has sometimes been difficult to avoid planting directly on to the marginal shelf , especially in pre-formed pools . |
| 21 | Third , attempts to map the eye movements directly on to the reported dreams ( in terms of direction of gaze , and so on ) have been dogged by the problem of actually measuring the position of the eyes using standard EEC equipment . |
| 22 | A computerised national criminal record system on the police national computer will enable police forces to enter information directly on to the national collection . |
| 23 | Nowhere is this more apparent than where access to farmland is most easily accomplished and is least organized — in those rural areas which abut directly on to the main centres of the population : the so-called ‘ urban fringe ’ . |
| 24 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 25 | I hop across the outer live rail to haul myself quickly on to the southbound platform . |
| 26 | The task of rebuilding TP298 fell logically on to the able shoulders of Craig Charleston , who temporarily imported the aircraft to his workshop facility near Colchester in February 1988 . |
| 27 | The original pirate radio ship Mi Amigo eventually drifted helplessly on to the Long Sand Head where she sank . |
| 28 | From Deuteronomy 1:19–25 it seems plain that Moses intended to go straight on into the promised land at this point ; it was the people 's suggestion that they should send spies ahead . |
| 29 | Brush liberally on to the exposed wood until the soft wood fibres are saturated . |
| 30 | Place the spaceship carefully on to the red spaceship base , so that the candy tips rest on the cake . |