Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The real danger of course is the forthcoming Police bill the proposal which were instituted by the present er Treasurer , erm er the Chancellor er and instituted further on by the present Home Secretary would lead to a centrally appointed Police committee at least fifty percent and a centrally appointed chairman , paid by the Home Secretary much rather like the Leicestershire Health Authority and of course this will severely undermine the local democratic accountability of the Police service . |
| 32 | The gravel can be laid directly on to the firm ground , but constant walking in wet weather will pound the gravel into the softened earth and you will , after a year or two , have to lay a fresh load to build up the path again . |
| 33 | All Souls was given a new roof oversailing the upper parapets , throwing water directly on to the lower aisle roofs . |
| 34 | It faced directly on to the wide main street of Wellingham , with its market cross , ornamental flower beds and grass verges ; in the daytime , a car park tangled up with bicycles and prams , on Saturdays and Fridays , with the stalls of a market . |
| 35 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 36 | In the past it has sometimes been difficult to avoid planting directly on to the marginal shelf , especially in pre-formed pools . |
| 37 | Third , attempts to map the eye movements directly on to the reported dreams ( in terms of direction of gaze , and so on ) have been dogged by the problem of actually measuring the position of the eyes using standard EEC equipment . |
| 38 | A computerised national criminal record system on the police national computer will enable police forces to enter information directly on to the national collection . |
| 39 | Nowhere is this more apparent than where access to farmland is most easily accomplished and is least organized — in those rural areas which abut directly on to the main centres of the population : the so-called ‘ urban fringe ’ . |
| 40 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 41 | Then she stepped quickly on to the nearest chair and stood there , listening . |
| 42 | I hop across the outer live rail to haul myself quickly on to the southbound platform . |
| 43 | The task of rebuilding TP298 fell logically on to the able shoulders of Craig Charleston , who temporarily imported the aircraft to his workshop facility near Colchester in February 1988 . |
| 44 | The original pirate radio ship Mi Amigo eventually drifted helplessly on to the Long Sand Head where she sank . |
| 45 | From Deuteronomy 1:19–25 it seems plain that Moses intended to go straight on into the promised land at this point ; it was the people 's suggestion that they should send spies ahead . |
| 46 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 47 | And then you 're straight on to the next job . |
| 48 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 49 | Brush liberally on to the exposed wood until the soft wood fibres are saturated . |
| 50 | Place the spaceship carefully on to the red spaceship base , so that the candy tips rest on the cake . |
| 51 | Liz wanted to get on to the exciting bits , in which Job demanded why light was given to him that was in misery , and life to the bitter in soul : in which Job desired to argue with his God : in which the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind : but she knew it would be cheating to miss out the she-asses and skip to the livelier parts , so she plodded dully on with the dull narrative . |
| 52 | Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green . |
| 53 | A few of his rare essays in landscape are included in a small show of oils , aquatints and pencil drawings by Giorgio Morandi at Baldacci-Daverio also on until the 30th . |
| 54 | Later on during the Civil War the Major was carrying dispatches from Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury when he was captured by Cromwell 's troops . |
| 55 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 56 | Later on in the 1920s the Bethell family installed their own plant for providing electricity . |
| 57 | Since a primitive ankylosaur looks somewhat like a primitive stegosaur , it has been suggested that the two sub-orders were really one which split apart later on in the evolutionary story . |
| 58 | I gave in to that later on in the '80s , by trying to be more conventional and blending in a bit more , and actually I should n't have done that . ’ |
| 59 | The colours were very subdued , very , very sombre , erm dove greys , muted blues , nothing bright at all , now this was n't because of dyes , although later on in the eighteen-sixties when chemical dyes really took off , the colours were correspondingly garish and bright . |
| 60 | However this hold upon her does not seem strong , as later on in the same scene she launches into song , cleverly making the first three lines rhyme with lead ! |