Example sentences of "[adv] on [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside us on the bench the captain , Muhammad , puffed fiercely on his seisha . |
| 2 | When his father began talking again , a little irritated frown wrinkled his smooth young brow , but although he made a great play of concentrating fiercely on his reading , he still listened carefully from behind the book to what was being said . |
| 3 | Nails looked up , pulling fiercely on his stub of home-rolled cigarette . |
| 4 | She looked well but was somewhat on her dignity . |
| 5 | Only when Charles Hedley drew opposite on his way to work in York had he realised it was a body . |
| 6 | Simone kissed her warmly on her cheek , looked as though she was about to say something , and then thought better of it . |
| 7 | Overall losses on general insurance fell from £157.3 million in 1991 to £61 million last year , and the group also did better on its core life assurance and pensions business . |
| 8 | Many women still marry for economic reasons , able to live better on their husband 's earnings than on their own . |
| 9 | The people who were devoting their lives to transforming society into an egalitarian paradise could not be expected to live like other people who had nothing better on their minds than scratching a living . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll find your brain works much better on my kind of diet . ’ |
| 11 | Anne is terribly on my side , she , still has n't rained every time I see her ! |
| 12 | Slightly bemused , she realised that the businesslike urgency appeared to be entirely on her side , in spite of the earlier impression that he knew how busy she must be , that he had no wish to waste any of her valuable time … |
| 13 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 14 | To her considerable surprise Joanna had been entirely on her side . |
| 15 | If there was love , it was entirely on her side . |
| 16 | The issue may not seem very important , unless you happen to believe that the authority of a book rests entirely on its authorship . |
| 17 | Language is not an agglomeration of separate facts but a closed system , in the sense that the function of each element depends entirely on its position within the whole . |
| 18 | And then , quite suddenly , there was uproar again , with the audience almost entirely on its feet and shouting and milling about , completely out of Gerrard 's control . |
| 19 | We identify the sound-image ‘ tree ’ by differentiating it from ‘ free ’ , ‘ try ’ , and so forth ; equally the meaning of the concept tree depends entirely on its difference from such related concepts as bush , plant , etc. , that of the concept orange on its difference from yellow and red . |
| 20 | The other crucial thing with painting is that the printed quality of an image depends entirely on its resolution . |
| 21 | The uniqueness and trustworthiness of Christianity rest entirely on its claim to be the truth . |
| 22 | For millennia the people along its banks have depended entirely on its bounty . |
| 23 | Er that depends entirely on which company you go in because erm er some of the courses start at different er times . |
| 24 | The nature of the code ( that is , for example , that GGC codes for glycine ) depends entirely on which anticodon and which attachment site occur together on a tRNA molecule . |
| 25 | We shall need to be more flexible in the way we handle retirement , and as generous as we can be to what is fortunately a declining proportion of the retired — that is , those who rely entirely on their State pension . |
| 26 | Most tasters of Madeira rely almost entirely on their sense of smell . |
| 27 | These are the sort of people whose wines deserve to do well ( and do ) entirely on their merits , and I would like to be allowed to put my faith in wine merchants such as the Kendricks or Simon Loftus of Adnams when they tell me which of their wines are eco-friendly . |
| 28 | The war-time ‘ khaki election ’ of 1900 returned the Conservatives almost entirely on their war record with almost no discussion of social questions . |
| 29 | Apart from the obvious requirement of a personal computer of some sort the other equipment required depends almost entirely on what sort of work the system will be used for . |
| 30 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |