Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hesitate would add to suspicions that the Fed cares more about staying on good terms with the White House than about price stability . |
| 2 | It can do so by focusing on five basic questions which are expressed in Figure 4.1 . |
| 3 | She was looking forward to standing on dry land once more . |
| 4 | but now we can acknowledge that the advance in South Africa 's cricket prospects is as much in their debt as it is to the current leaders who have united South African cricket and allowed it , for the first time in two centuries , to look forward to drawing on all the resources of the nation 's youth regardless of race , colour or creed . |
| 5 | It felt more like landing on concrete than water . |
| 6 | This is a fact that must be recognized by any teacher or any school who thinks seriously of embarking on graded tests as a means of supplementing , and perhaps ultimately supplanting , GCSE and A level examinations . |