Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combined effect of federal , state and local taxes in the United States in 1985 fell heavily on the poorest . |
| 2 | In one corner of the rectangular office a television set had not been switched off and the title sequence of a forgotten film from the seventies flickered silently on the screen . |
| 3 | I was behind a post last year and the Irish scored three tries right on the other side of it . ’ |
| 4 | Chapter 5 focuses particularly on the thorny question of idealism . |
| 5 | Scale 1 concentrates more on the image of sickness , its diagnosis and treatment , but all the time it is informed by a vibrant sense of the health aspired to ; whereas Scale 2 is concerned with the nature of the experience by which the image of sin is transfigured to a likeness of the being of God . |
| 6 | She turned to the doorway where she knew the singer would emerge as the stroke of twelve died away on the still night . |
| 7 | Of the remaining 51 fathers , 15 worked either on the railway in some capacity ( as signalman , guard , driver etc. ) or in other forms of transport , old and new ( coachman , bus conductor ) . |
| 8 | The detailed cases described in chapters 7–9 concentrate heavily on the events that took place during that period . |
| 9 | The two struggled together on the grass . |
| 10 | Tony had seen the four standing dejectedly on the street corner and he put his foot on the brake pedal , bringing the vehicle to a shuddering halt . |
| 11 | With a lead of 61 gained early on the third day , England were in a strong position to win . |
| 12 | Mr Malik put his arm round Robert , as the two sat together on the bench . |
| 13 | The ARPA project of the mid-seventies relied heavily on the use of domain-specific syntactic and semantic knowledge to constrain the search space . |