Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 2 | Readers might also be interested to hear that Stalin proposed signing a treaty with Morrissey when the time was right , only to renege on any agreement , later resulting in the bloody battle of Stalingrad and the division of The Smiths . |
| 3 | It gives you the opportunity , not only to concentrate on legal work , but also to learn about management and the way institutions work . |
| 4 | He seldom missed a match through injury , and he was versatile enough to play on either wing equally effectively , although his own preference was for outside-right . |
| 5 | Indeed , as members shuffle in to vote on this issue vital to Mr Major 's survival , the suspense will be as killing as in any Indiana Jones movie . |
| 6 | The upper levels of the incline were , we believe , supported on foundations deep enough to rest on firm subsoil ; while to reduce the danger of slippage on the slopes and particularly on the steeper embankment at the side , amounts of clay baked on site were mixed with the surface material . |
| 7 | And if anyone is callous enough to check on that story then I would n't want to work for them anyway . |
| 8 | The Code sets out a timetable for takeovers and certain standards of conduct , in order that all shareholders receive the same information and time enough to act on that information . |
| 9 | Everyone has their own favourite gardening wheeze , and if yours is original enough to print on this page we 'll send you a £50 cash prize . |
| 10 | Bernard , appreciative that Laura in New York would be treated as a queen of design , an extraordinary superwoman who had singlehandedly achieved it all , accordingly decided not to go on this trip . |
| 11 | YJ Lovell , which is currently bidding £137million for fellow builder Higgs & Hill says it is too soon to comment on current trading but its profits for the year to September 30 , rose from £24.4million to £33.3million . |
| 12 | YJ Lovell , which is currently bidding £137million for fellow builder Higgs & Hill says it is too soon to comment on current trading but its profits for the year to September 30 , rose from £24.4million to £33.3million . |
| 13 | ‘ They would do best to concentrate on technical software , rather than applications where you have to be in close touch with your customers , ’ he said . |
| 14 | You know what can be done elsewhere and how we can best utilize existing staff , it may well be as somebody has said , that I mean we 've got Rachel there , just to pick on one post , where you 're , cos it 's one I happen to know what 's she , what 's she supposed to be doing . |
| 15 | It is also clear that though the accident may have slightly lowered her I Q , she remains an intelligent young lady who is fully aware of everything that she has lost , but determined not to dwell on that loss . |
| 16 | So the manager or ‘ customer ’ may choose not to buy on this occasion . |
| 17 | She started hiding food away instead of eating it so as not to put on any weight , but hunger forced her to have a good meal at least once a week . |
| 18 | Such a test much be wide enough to safeguard public morality , yet narrow enough not to encroach on private taste or conscience . |
| 19 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
| 20 | On April 27th he signed a decree giving the president responsibility for foreign affairs and the same day warned the Serbs not to count on Russian help — a calculated snub to Serbophiles in parliament . |
| 21 | you 're not to climb on this gate , look there 's a little tiny bit of rust there already |
| 22 | The later authors duly record 834/1431 as the date of Fahreddin Acemi 's becoming Mufti , but they are forced to do so by the logic of their position and seem not to depend on any statement in the early sources . |
| 23 | ‘ Riley 's attachment to the great plein air colourists strengthened her resolve not to rely on any kind of external reality . |
| 24 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 25 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 26 | He had to get up early to go on local radio , which meant another journey back into Edinburgh in the morning . |
| 27 | Welcome back : Still to come on Central South , a new look for nineties for the old fashioned Co-op stores . |
| 28 | ( HARRIET AD LIB BACKREF ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central South . |
| 29 | Welcome back : Still to come on Central South … the problems encountered by a group of abseilers when they tackled a six hundred foot power station chimney . |
| 30 | ( GARGY AD LIB BACKREF ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central South . |