Example sentences of "[adv] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constituency Labour Party and trade union delegates seized eagerly on the common feeling that the Conservatives economic and political trials , and the disarray of the centre parties , were at last combining to open a window of opportunity . |
| 2 | Scientific logic has put men on the moon , but seems incapable of solving the energy crisis or of providing the means whereby mankind can live purposefully on a finite planet with shrinking resources . |
| 3 | It was Blossom , moving at a brisk trot , great udder swinging , eyes fixed purposefully on the open door behind us . |
| 4 | Breeze blew her nose fiercely on an earthy handkerchief , and stumbled into the car . |
| 5 | As the socialists ceased to be politically irrelevant sects and emerged as worker armies , the violence in the air reflected the contest both of the classes and of the Great Powers , set , it seemed , inexorably on the lunatic road to 1914 . |
| 6 | YOU : Perhaps that is somewhat on the high side . |
| 7 | The leaves are narrow , shiny , oval or lance-shaped , light green on the upper surface and reddish beneath , arranged opposite on a pinkish-greenish stem . |
| 8 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 9 | And your name sake Barnard of Bolier that 's his palace opposite on the other bank of the Thames . |
| 10 | There used to be a place who , place opposite on the same side as the the White Horse that eh , was selling plants , but do n't like that naked fence at all . |
| 11 | Snow was settling thickly on the raw earth , now , and on the blacker areas which had already been topsoiled . |
| 12 | After a while , that first storm of angry passion seemed to dissolve , and his lips began a probing exploration , his hand shaping the length of her body and coming to rest warmly on the rounded curve of her hip . |
| 13 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 14 | However , in spite of possible disagreement on these issues , Mr Clinton commented warmly on the special relationship when asked whether it had been harmed . |
| 15 | I think better on a full stomach — but I know one thing I 'm doing immediately after breakfast . ’ |
| 16 | Mere mortals forgive better on a full stomach , so how about dinner on Saturday ? |
| 17 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 18 | On the other hand they indicated that former President Giscard d'Estaing ( UDF ) was likely to do better on the second ballot by taking centrist votes , with the result that , in late 1990 , the UDF seemed less concerned to reach an agreement . |
| 19 | The restructuring will enable it to focus better on the two areas of its expertise in both wide area and local networks . |
| 20 | Glanton 's current plans for the Barnes depend entirely on a favourable judgment from the Orphans Court . |
| 21 | The first was the introduction of the Apple Macintosh which was the first personal computer to be based entirely on a graphical interface as opposed to the more conventional character-at-a-time systems . |
| 22 | They also had no mouths , since they subsisted entirely on the nourishing quality of the octarine wavelength in the discworld 's sunlight , which they absorbed through their skins . |
| 23 | For this we have to thank director Euzhan Palcy , since Andre Brink 's original novel focusses almost entirely on the Afrikaner teacher , Benjamin du Toit . |
| 24 | But the focus is often entirely on the lower death benefit , with the higher retirement benefit — often the main purpose of the contract — being overlooked . |
| 25 | The division seems almost complete : classical criminology focused entirely on the causal-corrective significance of the criminal justice system and ignored individual , social and economic factors ; positivist criminology focused almost entirely on the causal significance of individual , social and economic factors and ignored the criminal justice system . |
| 26 | So he can not cast off the argument from error and rely entirely on the conditional theory to show that K aq is here false . |
| 27 | He held another Council in May 1108 on the same model as the last , with a similar representation of lay magnates , but on this occasion he concentrated entirely on the administrative problems arising from his earlier decree against clerical marriage . |
| 28 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 29 | As a result , the evidence for this second stage in the history of marriage depends entirely on the two assumptions which we have already noted . |
| 30 | Bore-hole water , particularly from deep supplies , is usually very uniform , but the composition depends almost entirely on the geological source . |