Example sentences of "[adv] on the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crazy it is , especially on the much longed-for MZ replacement , a Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 , capable of massively out-accelerating every car on the road and reaching 175mph along Barassie beach . |
| 2 | If you 're backpacking there are many campsites to choose from , especially on the more popular east side of the island . |
| 3 | Give your skin the occasional stimulating body brush-up , concentrating especially on the more oily and potentially spotty areas like your back , between the shoulders . |
| 4 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 5 | She sat down on the heavily bolstered arm of a brocade chair opposite her hostess . |
| 6 | Could always be relied upon to break down on the most dangerous stretch of the motorway . |
| 7 | But in the last round she had two fences down on the most difficult course , with Mandevilles Supreme , the mount of William Funnell , another of the finalists . |
| 8 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 9 | But it 's basically down on the down on the first floor , we 've set aside a a room which erm the people from the Occupational Health Centre here in Harlow , come up and do vision screening for us on a regular basis they come when do they come ? |
| 10 | I mean yeah somebody just retired , cos is down on the now , that 's where is . |
| 11 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 12 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 13 | But it will be harder to crack down on the really powerful and harmful culprits in the shadow economy — the state bureaucrats who use their privileged access to goods heavily subsidized by the state to make fat profits for themselves . |
| 14 | You can give her what she wants as long as she puts it down on the as long it 's over fifty you can give her what you want . |
| 15 | Mutual benefits and shared learning are assumed to emanate from partnerships , predicated perhaps on the too simple notion that ‘ two plus two can make five ’ . |
| 16 | Now this to my mind is just not clear enough on the very central feature of our faith . |
| 17 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 18 | Sitting with the curtains open and the moon shining in on the barely begun big glass , he wrote , sitting keeping vigil with it all night after my walk with Paz , I was afraid . |
| 19 | With recent parts in On The Up , starring Dennis Waterman , and the Secret Agent , with David Suchet , Miss Mollison , 36 , tells me she has bought the option on a book with a view to producing a TV film from it . |
| 20 | They burst in on the somewhat startled signalman who was puzzled by the dramatic appearance of the two familiar faces . |
| 21 | The Sunday Telegraph ( February 1961 ) cashed in on the rapidly expanding quality Sunday market , built up most effectively by the Sunday Times ( whose colour magazine started in the same year ) . |
| 22 | Certain men have been trying to get in on the politically correct act for a while . |
| 23 | Only on the very clearest days , when the air was like the purest well-water , shadowy blots appeared to the west and north to show where the forest came to an end at hills , mountains … but they were a world away , two , three , four days ' journeying … if one dared . |
| 24 | Only on the very last day did an anticyclone grace our shores . |
| 25 | It is only on the more remote cliffs and islands that they have escaped the degradation of interbreeding with man-manipulated colour forms , and retain the true original plumage . |
| 26 | It is seen quite easily on the specially stained smear tests ( Papanicolaou smear ) for cancer of the cervix . |
| 27 | In fact , finally on the actually opening of the complete phase the er the increase on the six five eight was on the completion at that lower section , was in fact a sixty percent increase from six thousand to nine thousand . |
| 28 | I must prepare to say at this point that I have a special report on the Colville Road area to er er committee , not just on the now but I think we probably need to have further consultation with regard to the needs in that area . |
| 29 | The view that a ‘ threshold of effect ’ exists for the effects of phenylketonuria on brain development is based largely on the apparently normal intelligence of subjects with the mildest forms of the disorder ( so called ‘ benign ’ hyperphenylalaninaemia ) , whose plasma phenylalanine concentrations are <1000 µmol/l ( normal 50–120 µmol/l ) and who do not usually receive treatment . |
| 30 | Five of them to one desperately weakened pony with sunken eyes and ribs you could play tunes on — lassoing it with weighted thongs , and pulling it over and over on the desperately hard ground , until it was crapping everywhere in terror . |