Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
2 | Finally the young woman stated , ‘ I 'd be better off on Social Welfare ’ . |
3 | Trailing to a Cliff Thompson goal at half time Herrington were soon back on level terms when Tom Welsh scored only to again go behind to a David Ross effort . |
4 | The rear seat is also mounted further back on different mountings . |
5 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
6 | Either traverse right until just right of the arête , then boldly straight up on small holds to an easing in the angle and protection , or take a lower traverse across the wall until it is possible to work back up and leftwards to join the direct way at the protection . |
7 | They spend their time far out on warm seas once the short northern summer is over . |
8 | She receives more complaints , she said , from those who are in work but feel they would be as well off on supplementary benefit ; her aim is to increase the gap between those who are working and the non-working . |
9 | You 'll see that both the number of requests for service , and the number of visits made are well up on previous half years , and although some of that is due to probably the highest figure on insect complaints we 've ever had for six months , and erm it 's not all that , much of it is lately the department has been very , very busy indeed . |
10 | Being late-August , most of the birds had already flown south , though some pairs of kittiwakes remained , crammed together high up on tiny ledges . |
11 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
12 | The sale , which began in 1955 , has been in decline : last winter fewer than 290 booksellers and 12 publishers took part , significantly down on previous years . |
13 | The 1993 winter sale , which ends on 30th January , has so far been a major disappointment : fewer than 290 booksellers have taken part , significantly down on previous years . |
14 | The entrance hall , although large and square , was panelled in some dark wood , which made it gloomy , and the ancestral portraits which stared disapprovingly down on Sabine as she mounted the stairs did nothing to lighten the atmosphere . |
15 | safely back on ordinary fare . |