Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Pargeter said , nodding towards her open drinks cabinet , even before Blanche and Dexter had time to sit down on the black leather armchairs in her sitting-room . |
| 2 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 3 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 4 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 5 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |
| 6 | One of those lamented that a judgement against Koons could mean the end of ‘ appropriation ’ , a practice in which artists either manipulate or simply reproduce images from other sources to comment critically on the social core of notions of meaning or beauty . |
| 7 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 8 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 9 | Watford is erm when you used to come out on the old |
| 10 | What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side . |
| 11 | In educational contexts , it is important to concentrate particularly on the actual equality of the language spoken by individuals in school . |
| 12 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 13 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 14 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 15 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 16 | The broader track from the Horse Fair was better for riding ; he would not have to pass by on the narrow path where he had stumbled over Aldhelm 's body . |
| 17 | The group , headed by Stanley Kalms , said his resignation would ‘ enable him to concentrate fully on the financial management and control of the group 's retail businesses . ’ |
| 18 | Having fleshed out the frames of the characters , Whitaker virtually gave Coburn a free hand in his teleplay , needing to concentrate instead on the vast amount of work involved in reshaping the series with the loss or deferment of so many storylines . |
| 19 | Since no amount of economic reductionism or political explanation alone will expose the roots and distinctive characteristics of the province of Ulster by the late Victorian period , the aim of this investigation is to concentrate specifically on the important contribution made by evangelical religion , from the early penetration by Methodism in the mid eighteenth century to the political crises surrounding Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 21 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 22 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 23 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 24 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 25 | Although the position of the mouth indicates it is a bottom feeder , it does rise to the side to feed enthusiastically on the freeze-dried tubifex and swims in the lower middle areas of the aquarium . |
| 26 | This Spotlight reports on a survey of 94 adults ( defined as people aged 20 or over ) who fell into this category and looks at what — if anything — providers might do to pick up on the original expression of interest . |
| 27 | And , says the company , it has a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard in Germany , and in the US is working with both DEC and Motorola Computer Systems in its quest to pick up on the expanding downsizing trend . |
| 28 | Under water , their needle-like , razor-sharp teeth enable them to take fish as slippery as eels , through they are not good enough swimmers to prey regularly on the fast-swimming fish such as salmon or trout . |
| 29 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 30 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |