Example sentences of "[adv] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private journals continued to burgeon , as will be seen in Chapter 6 , but the state press could henceforth stand better on its own feet financially . |
| 2 | When you find one , ask yourself' 'Do I really need this word or would the noun work better on its own ? |
| 3 | He said , ‘ I can probably handle it better on my own . ’ |
| 4 | I wanted to sniff around a little , and I always do that better on my own , without distractions . |
| 5 | ‘ I get on better on my own , ’ he said to his mother , looking over the leaflets he 'd picked up . |
| 6 | We ca n't get you better on our own . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 8 | She shook her head fiercely , then concentrated entirely on her present work . |
| 9 | What limits a teacher wishes to set will depend entirely on her own intentions for a given student . |
| 10 | At this stage it suited her to work entirely on her own . |
| 11 | In future , the SIB is expected to regulate firms directly only on a ‘ last-resort basis ’ , and so to focus almost entirely on its primary role as a regulator of regulators . |
| 12 | The paper concludes that NCR may yet be a winner from its loss of the Sumitomo Bank account since it can now focus entirely on its Open Systems strategy in Japan . |
| 13 | Because the present British government are so totally encompassing , they 're such a dead hand , they are doing so much damage that the Liberal Democrat 's have got to be seen as a party that can help beat them or indeed , entirely on its own beat them . |
| 14 | All trainee managers follow the same route ; how fast and how far they develop depends entirely on their individual performance . |
| 15 | Thus the miners became the tenants of ‘ tied cottages ’ , albeit well-designed ones ( rather than the serried brick terraces characteristic of other fields ) in what , for industrial England , were attractive milieux , but the security of their tenancy depended entirely on their continued employment at their company 's pit . |
| 16 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 17 | Members now believe that their success at the polls depends , ultimately , almost entirely on their own efforts . |
| 18 | And one is often left with a feeling that in this area of the law judges rely almost entirely on their own sense of justice or on their own personal conception of what is best . |
| 19 | The preparation , transport and scrounging took longer than the construction , and I was working almost entirely on my own . |
| 20 | She put her arms around the older woman and muttered , ‘ I felt so alone , entirely on my own , a few minutes ago , but I 've got you and I 've got Charlie and May and Frank . |
| 21 | By contrast the peripheral employee is judged entirely on his past record or that of the consultant company which employs him on a semi-permanent basis . |
| 22 | It is just conceivable , however that , even at this time he may have started to indulge in a very simple form of god worship entirely on his own as a single individual , group worship following much later . |
| 23 | Just one man — the personal representative of the President and operating entirely on his own . |
| 24 | He was the kind of man who looked capable of anything — who lived life entirely on his own terms . |
| 25 | When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September . |
| 26 | The very subject matter of ‘ Kubla Khan ’ , Xanadu , is heavily connotated with creativity , since it was to be Kubla 's invention , a mythical city based entirely on his own personal ideas , and to some extent , it can be seen as a product of his own imagination blended with the awesome power which he wields ( needed in order to create such a setting ) . |
| 27 | I have done my best to point out the difficulties and pitfalls associated with learning to hover but the truth is that , from here on , you are entirely on your own . |
| 28 | For one thing , we wee entirely on our own and we all enjoyed the fact that there was no master around to tell us what to do . |
| 29 | Even some of the financial institutions have begun to recognise that those who are suddenly on their own through bereavement , divorce or separation , are special customers who need help . |
| 30 | Accompanying harmonies , with a significant bass , can say much on their own with very little movement . |