Example sentences of "[adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 32 | Willows and other small trees grew thickly on the banks of Lough Corrib , fenced off from the road . |
| 33 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 34 | Berries are brought to the hall between 10am and 2pm on the day of the show . |
| 35 | Then the semi-finals will commence at 2pm on the Sunday , with the final scheduled for a 6pm start . |
| 36 | Then the semi-finals will commence at 2pm on the Sunday , with the final scheduled for a 6pm start . |
| 37 | ‘ We should be campaigning all through the holidays after a hard session , ’ he commented gloomily on the October proposal . |
| 38 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 39 | Pimpernel , it was true , was looking less than his usual yappy self-a smoky smell hung around him , and he lay gloomily on the bed , a chastened dog . |
| 40 | Although Mr Melding , a first-time candidate , has not the faintest chance of winning , he is reluctant to dwell gloomily on the fact . |
| 41 | Her mind was determined to dwell gloomily on the future . |
| 42 | The summer sun shone warmly on the Cadillac Eldorado . |
| 43 | When my hon. Friend meets the chairman of the East Cumbria authority , will he congratulate him warmly on the fact that having , since 1982-83 , secured a budget increase , after inflation , of almost 15 per cent . |
| 44 | Then she stretched up to kiss him warmly on the lips . |
| 45 | That dress would hang better on a broomstick . ’ |
| 46 | I 've always thought he was good-looking , but that blonde hair and those blue eyes look even better on a girl ! ’ |
| 47 | I do hope we 've got some good stuff for this live album , because it seems we always play better on a night when we 're not recording . |
| 48 | Leaks from inside DEC say OpenVMS runs a lot better on the Alpha platforms than OSF/1 does . |
| 49 | Much better on the wall . |
| 50 | Cos I went in this morning I 'd better on the piss last night . |
| 51 | I should have thought up something better on the way over , but no one could think in that wind . |
| 52 | Turnover figures were among the lowest of the year with just 578 million shares changing hands and the FT-SE 100-Share Index closed just 6.5 better on the day at 2,922.4 . |
| 53 | Perhaps he likes it better on the water . ’ |
| 54 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |
| 55 | All assumed that they manage things better on the Continent . |
| 56 | Sydney : Directionless trading brought little change , the All Ordinaries index ending just 0.7 ahead at 1,773.2 — but 37.4 points better on the week . |
| 57 | Er move this on just the table so it does n't fall , David , put your juice better on the table so it does n't fall , see it in the middle there , it 'll fall off there |
| 58 | As Strevens ( in Altman 1979 ) points out ‘ In order to focus better on the learner we must also produce teachers of a calibre to do the focusing . ’ |
| 59 | No salaries were guaranteed and their income depended almost entirely on a proportion of fees from enrolments in classes and courses at civilian and military centres . |
| 60 | I think erm certainly for a child to rely entirely on a calculator for all mathematical operations would be a disastrous thing . |