Example sentences of "on the [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planning principle of converting the barrack-like main blocks of these buildings into flats has been the exploitation of the 4.2m ( 14ft ) standard height of each classroom by siting a mezzanine ‘ sleeping gallery ’ on the internally located kitchenette/bathroom areas , overlooking a ‘ double-height ’ living-room which is lit by the large and lofty classroom windows . |
| 2 | It is extremely wordy , not least on the best track No Cause For Alarm , which demolishes the official defence of nuclear power . |
| 3 | The building of the now leaking sarcophagus alone cost an astonishing amount of money , on the best estimate available . |
| 4 | Ask your local Crime Prevention Officer for advice on the best alarm to buy . |
| 5 | And as with tarmac highways , weekends and Bank Holidays can bring heavy traffic on the best known routes . |
| 6 | This chapter draws heavily on the best known and most detailed model of cohesion available . |
| 7 | The moonlight illuminated a hand carved wooden name plaque on the freshly painted gate , Honey Cottage . |
| 8 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 9 | In a step-by-step assault on the softly-softly approach to Europe being peddled by Downing Street , the former Conservative cabinet minister also made it clear that Mrs Thatcher 's hard-line opposition to the concept of monetary union with the other 11 EC nations was jeopardising the chances of London becoming the base for a European central bank . |
| 10 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 11 | She looked , however , as if she was fairly determined to give her views on the matter , but before she could start on the Why do they come over here if they do n't like it ? speech or her I believe in respecting people 's religious feelings but would die to defend their right to disagree with me speech , Maisie came round the door . |
| 12 | There I am on the neatly mown grass that says Keep Off Grass with the pigeon pinned under my armpit trying to bend its neck double and it smacking me in the face with one wing , when all of a sudden there 's this : ‘ Oi ! ’ |
| 13 | That is what Honda have worked on the most to improve the bike . |
| 14 | Correction : the Semiconductor Industry Association is famed for putting a positive spin on the most downbeat news and making over-optimistic forecasts , so it is as well to check their announcements closely — the $1,771m recorded for chip shipments in April was actually a decline of 19.5% on the figure recorded for March ( CI No 2,166 ) . |
| 15 | I think I got it in a shop on the where did I get it ? |
| 16 | And now , as dawn broke , Driver Oliver kept a watchful eye on the slowly lightening coastline . |
| 17 | Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ? |
| 18 | In some cases this provides a variation on the geographically based structure . |
| 19 | At this point , Alf Jacobson entered the room to inform us that when he rang the Canadian Pacific Railway to check on the 9.15pm train by which Mr Murray and party were to travel to Regina , he was informed that the train was held up at Swift Current because of the blizzard , and that it would seem the CBC party might have to spend the night in Moose Jaw . |
| 20 | A focus group would be a most interesting way of beginning work on the previously noted research into why some people do and why some people do not go to the theatre , but the results of such discussion would be hypothesis-provoking only , not in any way hypothesis-testing . |
| 21 | Its chairman , David Murray , wrote to Mr Gillespie saying that instead of handing over the shares on the previously agreed dates , he could keep them until he was 65 in 1991 , when they would be transferred to MIH in one lump . |
| 22 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 23 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the carefully targeted aid that she has given to Zambia in recent years . |
| 24 | He could not , for he was lying recumbent and unconscious on the carefully tended garden . |
| 25 | The language syllabus of Streamline is based on the carefully controlled introduction of new structures and vocabulary . |
| 26 | Kitty Butterwick and her team give their verdict on the commercially made options to end the traditional Christmas meal |
| 27 | The Wembley square-go was more of a blot on Keegan 's copy book than on the already soiled jotters of William Bremner . |
| 28 | They recruited and trained some of West Africa 's best journalists , building on the already established foundations of newspaper readership and reporting . |
| 29 | Thus both the content and the form of the new eighteenth-century realist novel can be shown as dependent on the already known facts of the increasing social importance of the commercial bourgeoisie . |
| 30 | In this tradition , before this development , the sociology of culture had significantly been concentrated on the already institutionalized areas of religion and education . |