Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a creak it opened inwards on a dark hole . |
| 2 | It relied substantially on a voluntary approach . |
| 3 | It fed both on a new nationalism , and a revivification of orthodoxy in the face of the challenge of science and materialism . |
| 4 | It brought together on a grand scale the children of many nations whose parents and older brothers would have fought on opposing sides in the war . |
| 5 | It missed out on a small but significant slice of the market . |