Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 2 | This is the great hall and I could spend easily as long as I 've already spent on on this hall but I wo n't . |
| 3 | They all have shortcomings which I will not go into on this occasion , but which make them inappropriate models on which to slip the garments of orthodox doctrines of Atonement and the Trinity . |
| 4 | Bird Island in the Seychelles ( which we did n't get to on this occasion ) is said to have a colony of over two million ! |
| 5 | Like so much that was sacred at Canterbury , it was all hearsay , and all the more violently adhered to on that account . |