Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 2 | The bedroom was insufferably dark , though if he insisted that the drapes be further drawn they would open only on to a dour and leaden sky . |
| 3 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 4 | This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork . |
| 5 | He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach . |
| 6 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 7 | In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man . |
| 8 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 9 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
| 10 | In central London , a middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a 40ft tree crashed down on to an open-top bus on Victoria Embankment . |
| 11 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 12 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 13 | and so on through a honeyed and insincere figure ( II.iv.41ff . ) . |
| 14 | One of the salient features about this process is a phenomenon that might be described as endogenous economies of scale : more business is attracted to contracts with low bid-ask spreads ( i.e. high liquidity ) , and that attracts more market makers and more arbitrage and speculative activity on the exchange , and this increased competition drives down bid-ask spreads and so on in a virtuous circle . |
| 15 | But where such mutuality is non-existent ; where through some personal need ( based in earlier life and relationships ) the woman finds her greatest satisfactions in motherhood rather than in marriage ; where male inadequacy sees neglect in anything but total attention ; or where circumstances exist in which addition to the family unduly diminishes the expression of sexual love between two partners : personal and sexual dissonance is likely to arise , which will lead to further marital rifts , which will themselves militate against sexual happiness … and so on in a vicious spiral . |
| 16 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 17 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 18 | Ignorance of the union world was underlined early on by a detailed target list itemizing the amount sought from each union . |
| 19 | He drove along the road for two or three miles , then turned off on to a stone-walled lane which led up a forested hillside . |
| 20 | It only slowed down on nearing the outskirts of Teplyystan where it turned off on to a narrow road leading into the Bittsevsky forest park , a panoramic landscape of ravines and gorges layered with fir , oak and pine plantations . |
| 21 | I watched for the gas station on Harvey 's map and turned off on to an unmade road that kicked up stones against the underside of the Rambler and laid a film of dust across the tinted windscreen . |
| 22 | Two principal types of construction are used : on street sections grooved tram rail is laid directly on to a solid track-bed , while on the Promenade it is spiked to wooden sleepers . |
| 23 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
| 24 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
| 25 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |
| 26 | Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again . |
| 27 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 28 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 29 | After the theatrics of the ridge , it 's a strange experience to emerge up on to an enormous flat plateau — a bit like climbing the ladder up to your loft and discovering it leads to an American Football stadium . |
| 30 | Carry straight on up a rough track — this is the Minchmoor Road . |