Example sentences of "quiet on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disturbingly quiet on the Western front |
| 2 | Now all is quiet on the Western front . |
| 3 | In any case , this type of speculation is a complete waste of time and anyone who seriously thinks that all is quiet on the western front as the twentieth century draws to a close must be dozing in his dug-out . |
| 4 | On first seeing All Quiet on the Western Front it was as if the whole cast had marched through my life on their way to Wallsend station and the battlefields of Europe . |
| 5 | In this way were seen Gone With the Wind and All Quiet on the Western Front : as events in the nation 's history , peopled by characters from the Persian pantheon . |
| 6 | President Ceausescu has generally kept quiet on the Moldavian issue , while routinely stressing Romanian national sovereignty and independence . |
| 7 | Things are quiet on the picket line on this Sunday afternoon . |
| 8 | It was very hard for the Brownies to stay still and quiet on the ground , just gazing up into space , especially when every now and again the circling plane came between them and the sun and cast a strange , dark shadow over them . |
| 9 | Keeping the locals quiet on the street and patient watch on the gates , unlike Plain Clothes and CID work , offered no glamour and caught no superior 's eye . |
| 10 | ‘ All quiet on the western front . ’ |
| 11 | All of a sudden , at some point in the early '80s , all went quiet on the Clempson front . |
| 12 | ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT |
| 13 | It 's as famous and disturbing a last shot as that of All Quiet On The Western Front . |
| 14 | THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE ( 1974 ) /ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT ( 1980 ) |
| 15 | Last month the grapevine was fairly quiet on the tip of the world . |
| 16 | ALL QUIET ON THE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY FRONT High fliers should still apply , but the profession 's long-term unemployed are finding that the longer you 're out , the harder it is to get back in |
| 17 | All may have been quiet on the 808 State front over the last year but , far from resting on their laurels , the techno titans have been locked in the studio , ripping it up on the mixing desk . |
| 18 | It has been very quiet on the sales front so I hope this will give us a boost . ’ |
| 19 | He had been so quiet on the journey home that Martin said to him , ‘ What 's up , laddie ? ’ and when Joe had replied , ‘ Everything , ’ Martin had nodded his head , saying simply , ‘ Carrie ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They are very quiet on the pitch and that shows the tension they are under , ’ Short declared . |
| 21 | Sella and Saint André were quiet on the night and indeed young Transvaal winger Pieter Hendriks was the pick of the backs . |
| 22 | Hollywood had always been prepared to use social realism in the service of melodrama and especially in the service of making prestige films out of literary classics and this practice remained in evidence during these years and led to such notable films as An American Tragedy and All Quiet on the Western Front . |
| 23 | Then the moralist had better keep quiet on the matter , while turning to the social engineer to modify the social situation so that ‘ moral goodness ’ becomes ‘ the best policy ’ . |
| 24 | Cunningham was unusually quiet on the journey , but Van Cheele talked all the time , so he did not notice his friend 's silence . |
| 25 | But I got hold of All Quiet on the Western Front from my brother 's bookshelves . |
| 26 | The whole building shook , and someone was running the sound-effects tracks from All Quiet on the Western Front and Hell 's Angels very loud out in the street . |
| 27 | ‘ All quiet on the Western Front ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ All quiet on the Western front … |
| 29 | Maybe so , but IBM has n't exactly been quiet on the soap box either — look around and you 'll see plenty of advertising from them — which is where the ‘ better DOS than DOS and a better … ’ quote came from . |
| 30 | They followed the stream , their feet quiet on the soft mud , the boot soles leaving patterns in damp places . |