Example sentences of "on [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 2 | The second is how to elicit people 's preferences , and though score sheets , questionnaires and semantic difference scales have been widely used , the search is still on for a more effective method ( Propst and Buyhoff , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | So the search is on for a more durable , ‘ horizontal ’ resistance to a variety of races of a pest . |
| 4 | Oh she 's alright , she just had double nappies on for a very long time |
| 5 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 6 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 7 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 8 | But as Freud , with his own particular brand of madness and insistence , pressed on into a more realist style , Minton was obliged to recognise the power of his intensely probing vision . |
| 9 | By the age of nineteen he was back at home , which was probably , by this time , in Yafforth about twenty-five miles from Thornton Dale , the way of development through the competitive channels of establishment institutions behind him , and his face turned towards the alternative life-style of the recluse which he embarked on with a comically home-spun rite of passage . |
| 10 | If liked , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 11 | Sticking on with a little royal icing or glue , wrap the strip carefully around the edge of the roof , scalloped edge upwards . |
| 12 | Transfer the boat to the cake drum and secure on with a little royal icing . |
| 13 | Cut out four long strips and use to cover the cake drum around the cake , securing on with a little royal icing and trimming to fit . |
| 14 | If liked , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 15 | Transfer to the cake drum with care , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 16 | Wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , if using , securing on with a little royal icing . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 18 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 19 | We carried on in a more sober mood , each repeating his own prayers . |
| 20 | But now it 's all divorce and even the married ones carry on in a very odd way . |
| 21 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes — bedroom , bathroom , a door opening on to a section of enclosed veranda , and an open veranda beyond that , looking down on to a rather beautiful tropical garden . |
| 23 | From a steep ascent you emerge on to a surprisingly large plateau the size of a football field , covered with cairns , memorial plaques , the ruined observatory , and of course the people you left behind on the tourist path . |
| 24 | And this would reveal that the Covenant 's structure was by nature essentially Western , a product of European parliamentary equality grafted on to a newly independent nation whose very existence had been contested by more than half its population for more than two decades . |
| 25 | She spread butter on to a deliciously aromatic roll , and spread it with honey , adding calmly , ‘ This is your villa . |
| 26 | The pull was made on to a slightly uphill gradient and into the wind , in spite of this a record breaking 100 metres was reached in 40.8 seconds at a speed of 4.5 mph . |
| 27 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |
| 28 | A light , shone on to the mirror and reflected on to a fairly distant surface , would provide an initial doubling in amplification of the movement of the mirror , and the farther the light was projected , the greater the subsequent amplification of any change in potential difference . |
| 29 | For the last couple of weeks , I had two posters in my windows , facing on to a fairly busy street . |
| 30 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |