Example sentences of "on at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people who use the train regularly know everyone who gets on at the first few stops . |
| 2 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 3 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 4 | And putting coals on at the far end . |
| 5 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
| 6 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 7 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 8 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 9 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 10 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 11 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 12 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 13 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 14 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 15 | From London you can be putting your boots on at the Bloody Bridge car park in less than three hours if you have a mind to . |
| 16 | That 's the Stamford Bridge in East Yorkshire not the one which gives David Mellor a stork on at the mere mention of the place . |
| 17 | Middleton finds Rocky on at the Mongolian flicks ; Vickers listens to Elvis and Buddy Holly on a Kazakh collective farm . |
| 18 | Even when she was too tired to read she sought escape in romance-cubes she spent all her wages on at the Madreidetic shop . |
| 19 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 20 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 21 | You put that on at the right time |
| 22 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 23 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 24 | The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation . |
| 25 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 26 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 27 | I put Growmore fertiliser on at the same time as the compost and it seems to have no ill-effects . |
| 28 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 29 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
| 30 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |