Example sentences of "on [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
| 2 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 3 | Families , which essentially means women , already provide massive , unpaid , largely unrecognized care and it is vital that policies of decentralization and community care do not too readily shift an even greater burden on to both the elderly themselves and their caring relatives . |
| 4 | He positively brims with charm , suggesting that , like the proverbial Don , he has the enviable ability to turn it on at just the right moment . |
| 5 | When the light comes on at precisely the same time each night and the curtains are n't drawn , it 's clear the house is empty . |