Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 2 | Runswick Bay , a multi-million pound investment by Yorkshire Television , is due to go out on the network five days a week next year . |
| 3 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 4 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 5 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 6 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 7 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 8 | They were not prepared to comment further on the matter . |
| 9 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 10 | And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day . |
| 11 | Bills accepted by banks designated as ‘ eligible ’ banks by the Bank of England become first-class bills which the Bank of England is willing to deal in on the market . |
| 12 | ‘ We remain ready for talks at any time and I hope the Chinese side will be prepared to settle quickly on the arrangements for such talks , ’ Mr Hurd said . |
| 13 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 14 | According to sources at the highest level , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has ‘ bitten the ideological bullet , ’ and is prepared to step out on the Unix SVR4 road — if it can cut the deal it wants with Unix owner USL . |
| 15 | For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 16 | It was exciting to travel up on the night train and to find Granny waiting beside the fire in the hall , as exhilarated by the festivities as any of her grandchildren . |
| 17 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's quite normal to tire quickly on the slopes . ’ |
| 19 | It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it . |
| 20 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 21 | Even long-drained regions , such as Longdon Marsh in Worcestershire , are easy to pick out on the Ordnance Survey as ‘ holes ’ on the map . |
| 22 | of women feel that it is unsafe to walk alone on the streets at night , which shows that a great public need is being ignored . |
| 23 | The point we need to consider is whether , in the light of such diversity of interaction , it is appropriate to focus exclusively on the impact of science on religion . |
| 24 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |
| 25 | It was impossible to lie comfortably on the pillow . |
| 26 | ‘ Cameron ’ Clare continues , ‘ is content to lurk here on the sidelines radiating self-righteous socialist disapproval and imag-ining how after the revolution we 'll all have to pull ploughs , eat raw turnips and take part in interminable self-criticism sessions long into the candle-lit night on the collective farm , are n't you , Cameron ? ’ |
| 27 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 28 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
| 29 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
| 30 | Already there was a small queue of young people at the café door , for this was Saturday night and the boys had put on their one-hundred-and-thirty-rouble English wool suits and the girls had fifty-rouble pointed shoes wrapped in a parcel , for they were far too valuable to wear out on the icy streets . |