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 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 8 | This centred originally on the right-wing Nation Party and the sentiment has persisted , with clashes between rival fundamentalist groups common before the 1980 military coup . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Obediently she did as he bade her , her gaze travelling round the empty room , seeing only the elegant lines of fitted furniture , the newly made bed , the bedside table with one large volume hanging open — and another fallen untidily on the floor beside it . |
| 11 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 12 | They were not prepared to comment further on the matter . |
| 13 | We propose that in the short-run this depends inversely on the demand for labour , assuming that the labour force remains unchanged . |
| 14 | The dose received is also important ; and this depends largely on the amount of the particular radiation that reaches the Earth 's surface . |
| 15 | This depends largely on the quarantine situation . |
| 16 | This depends primarily on the branch of fluid mechanics being studied . |
| 17 | His success in this depends directly on the success of his immaterialism , for it is obvious how it continually points the way towards God . |
| 18 | This depends mainly on the availability of resources , i.e. manpower , spares , tools , etc. , and is interrelated with ‘ what to do ? ’ |
| 19 | This depends mainly on the size of the record and the operating speeds of the direct access device in question . |
| 20 | All this depends still on the assumption that noise is a state with defined boundaries . |
| 21 | Of the 40 guests at Cannigione , slightly more than half sail mainly on the windsurf programme . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Do you want another lie down on the settee ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This cuts down on the suspense and Ballantyne sees it as being comic . |
| 26 | I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling . |
| 27 | This sounds well on the B flat instrument , but must have been even more thrilling on the F trumpet for which it was written . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Oh it took some sorting out on the next morning . |
| 30 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |