Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 2 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 3 | Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) . |
| 4 | Kitty took about a dozen tender puffs and then pressed the pad of her index finger most gently on the glowing weed . |
| 5 | When they entered the front room , Father Poole sat down wearily on the nearest chair . |
| 6 | But recognition of this dawned only slowly on the still immense proportion of ‘ Hitler believers ’ among the population . |
| 7 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 8 | Probably too much so on the political side , in so far that er er looking back , it seems that w w we were isolated from other young people , in so far that we were associated with straight political er activity and er straight political movement . |
| 9 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 10 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 11 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 12 | The bass sounds good , although lack of internal screening means that unwanted noise is sometimes a problem — less so on the humbucking back pickup — and generally it copes with styles from driving rock to funky , thumb rattling sounds and smoother , jazzy tones . |
| 13 | A lump came to her throat and she sat down suddenly on the safest-looking chair she could find . |
| 14 | gone down anyway on the basic rate |
| 15 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 16 | As was said earlier , since the Piper Alpha incident there has been a succession of serious incidents in the North sea , although obviously not on the same scale as Piper Alpha . |
| 17 | The impression was reinforced by Elton squatting down comfortably on the front-stage light box mid-story . |
| 18 | The fifth yacht to arrive in the space of eight hours , Rhone Poulenc , carried a crewman who 'd spoken to his family in Gloucester only once on the whole trip . |
| 19 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |
| 20 | To free herself of it , Ronni sat down quickly on the wooden seat behind her . |
| 21 | Hari took the tea Beatie handed her and set it down quickly on the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 22 | Jochim to Speedy Ormanroyd 's lay-off a good one for Lewis gets it in quickly on the left foot Ormanroyd and then Speedy collided with Pearce as he went in to try and turn the ball goalwards and it 's all ended up a goal kick . |
| 23 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 24 | MARCH quarter results for the six gold mines in the Gold Fields of South Africa stable , are down marginally on the preceding quarter . |
| 25 | Policy remains in the hands of people who do not have disabilities and who are frequently so far on the other side of the experiential divide between people with and without disabilities that ‘ objective policies ’ — that is , those which ignore the experiential divide — simply serve to reinforce the notion of disability rather than the values and abilities of those who are different . |
| 26 | I was surprised , yet strangely pleased , to discover that the worst seller so far on the exemplary , semi-underground techno label Network has been ‘ Mood ’ / ‘ Science of Numbers ’ / ‘ Tear Drops of Yesterday ’ by Symbols And Instruments . |
| 27 | Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered . |
| 28 | And so far on the mammoth project the TSDO troops have been sent in successfully thousands of times . |
| 29 | After the first landing , the things to practise are more variations in the approaches and landings , trying some steep and some shallow , but attempting to touch down accurately on the chosen spot . |
| 30 | They sat him down roughly on the outside bench , and his head hit the wall with a thud . |