Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why cause ourselves so much anxiety , and spend so much time , money and energy on failed diet/exercise routines when the answer to all our problems is staring us right in the face . |
| 2 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 3 | They liked him even less when they discovered he hated playing rugby , especially on cold winter mornings when the ground was as hard as concrete and the snow lay two feet deep . |
| 4 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 5 | In part , this is due to the higher profile of socio-legal agencies on working-class housing estates where the user is more visible . |