Example sentences of "very [adj] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elean:Your stories are very strong on the hostile , uncaring , comtemptuous , apartheid apparatus — for example the traumatic experience for the Black African people just to travel on a train from A to B ; you seem to contrast this , all the time , with the ’ togetherness ’ , the solidarity among the suffering South African people , like in your story , Fud-u-u- , a , where you emphasize this togetherness , especially among the women . |
| 2 | It is very pleasant on the other side of the ridge . |
| 3 | The situation was very different on the northern frontier . |
| 4 | Even today weather reports are sometimes incorrect owing to the vagaries of our climate , but then , with the whole of western Europe blanked out ( thanks to Hitler ) , together with most of Ireland , we were very dependent on the few Atlantic weather ships and ( eventually ) our own trained eyes to tell us what was coming . |
| 5 | Again , these are very dependent on the particular machine , but if used sensibly , and not just as gimmicks , they can completely transform a program . |
| 6 | But the quality of the reflection is very dependent on the questioning skills of the teacher . |
| 7 | This would lead to a decline in the volume of less essential traffic in urban and rural areas and bring an overall reduction in all its adverse effects , including its contribution , through carbon dioxide , to global warming — certain to be very high on the political agenda in the next few years . |
| 8 | Over a fanatically carnivorous lunch in an Argentinian joint on Eighty-Second Street my friend Fielding had been very reassuring on the whole Lorne-Caduta question . |
| 9 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 10 | In the Boos it was revived and became very powerful on the temporal side . |
| 11 | With the increase of tension between universal education and differential provision , the special qualities of the new English ( under the hegemony of English literature ) for securing the sense of a common culture while at the same time being suited to differential application across the range of educational sectors , caused the Board to look very kindly on the fledgling discipline and to give a great deal of support to its advancement in schools . |
| 12 | I do n't think you 'll take very long on the twelves I think you 'll have that sorted out pretty quickly . |
| 13 | John Foster Fraser and two friends cycled round the world on more conventional cycles in 1896 , but 19,237 miles must have felt very tough on the slow , heavy bikes of the time . |
| 14 | Also they are very severe on the second man going to ground . |
| 15 | Tactfully , he designed a 4–6–0 express passenger locomotive that owed more than a little to Jones 's influence , and it was very successful on the demanding gradients of the Perth–Inverness line . |
| 16 | Her hair looked very red on the black floor . |
| 17 | It 's very thick on the outside but almost , you can almost see through some of the bone in the base there and that can be caused by as , a blow on the head if it 's the bolt of the erm brain that 's caused , got the injury , or from the base of skull is usually caused by er landing on your feet from heights , and |
| 18 | The grey-green eyes were very intent on the shadowy uncertainty in hers . |
| 19 | I remember the elocution teacher was very keen on the modern plays that were being published then — and I know we worked on Pinter which actually led me to use the part of Mick in The Caretaker for my subsequent auditions in England for a place in drama school . |
| 20 | Well no , even people think who think that we need the monarchy are n't very keen on the civil list . |
| 21 | D'Addario are very keen on the hi-tech side and have developed robotic machines that practically take care of plain strings , adding ball-ends , coiling and all . |
| 22 | IN THE absence of original ideas , programmers and producers seem very keen on the old cover version . |
| 23 | He was also very active on the economic front and played a prominent part in killing off a proposal to float sterling in 1952 . |