Example sentences of "on [prep] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 2 | The second is how to elicit people 's preferences , and though score sheets , questionnaires and semantic difference scales have been widely used , the search is still on for a more effective method ( Propst and Buyhoff , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Oh she 's alright , she just had double nappies on for a very long time |
| 4 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 5 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 6 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 7 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 8 | But as Freud , with his own particular brand of madness and insistence , pressed on into a more realist style , Minton was obliged to recognise the power of his intensely probing vision . |
| 9 | By the age of nineteen he was back at home , which was probably , by this time , in Yafforth about twenty-five miles from Thornton Dale , the way of development through the competitive channels of establishment institutions behind him , and his face turned towards the alternative life-style of the recluse which he embarked on with a comically home-spun rite of passage . |
| 10 | If liked , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 11 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 12 | Transfer the boat to the cake drum and secure on with a little royal icing . |
| 13 | Cut out four long strips and use to cover the cake drum around the cake , securing on with a little royal icing and trimming to fit . |
| 14 | If liked , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 15 | Transfer to the cake drum with care , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 16 | Wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , if using , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 18 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 19 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 20 | We carried on in a more sober mood , each repeating his own prayers . |
| 21 | But now it 's all divorce and even the married ones carry on in a very odd way . |
| 22 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 23 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 24 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 25 | From a steep ascent you emerge on to a surprisingly large plateau the size of a football field , covered with cairns , memorial plaques , the ruined observatory , and of course the people you left behind on the tourist path . |
| 26 | And this would reveal that the Covenant 's structure was by nature essentially Western , a product of European parliamentary equality grafted on to a newly independent nation whose very existence had been contested by more than half its population for more than two decades . |
| 27 | She spread butter on to a deliciously aromatic roll , and spread it with honey , adding calmly , ‘ This is your villa . |
| 28 | The pull was made on to a slightly uphill gradient and into the wind , in spite of this a record breaking 100 metres was reached in 40.8 seconds at a speed of 4.5 mph . |
| 29 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |
| 30 | A light , shone on to the mirror and reflected on to a fairly distant surface , would provide an initial doubling in amplification of the movement of the mirror , and the farther the light was projected , the greater the subsequent amplification of any change in potential difference . |