Example sentences of "[noun] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a gesture of faith in the future on a scale that takes the breath away and confounds the gloom merchants . |
| 2 | This makes it difficult for traders to recognize arbitrage possibilities involving a future on a geometric index when the future is underpriced , and may account for the replacement of the geometric VLCI future by its arithmetic equivalent . |
| 3 | It is found , however , on some figures in an Amazonomachy and a Centauromachy on a big volute-krater ( fig. 109 ) by a less talented companion of the Niobid Painter known as the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs , in whose work too it is abnormal . |
| 4 | The rails of your board determine how well it sails upwind and its ability to maintain grip at speed on a reach and during a turn . |
| 5 | One 's inability to make better speed on a scrambling descent seems as paradoxical as it is frustrating . |
| 6 | Indeed , the Ramblers Association has gone further than my hon. Friend has suggested in connection with that line , and has stated that , if British Rail increases the speed on a line , it will also be reducing the safety on it . |
| 7 | Within the next two or three years , seven major studies , all aimed at reducing coronary risks on a massive scale , will have reported their findings . |
| 8 | However , senior management almost by definition is a matter of assessing and taking business risks on a daily if not hourly basis and even those momentarily brought up short by the mention of such dramatic events will rapidly discount them as extremely low in league of likely threats to be confronted . |
| 9 | From there , anything happens , as these circus trained acrobats and gymnasts take risks on a huge structure built on the stage . |
| 10 | However their peace is short-lived when they meet the charming Nick Buckley , the last of a long line of Buckleys inhabiting ‘ End House ’ , which is poised in isolation on a rocky point visible from the hotel . |
| 11 | First of all , health and health care are seen as political , social and ideological issues which can not be understood or tackled in isolation on a medical or technical basis . |
| 12 | The years of his isolation on a world where it was often a good idea to appear without warning had taught him how to move silently . |
| 13 | The poverty index is the ratio of the total income of the household and a multiple of the total income necessary to maintain a family with given characteristics on a nutritionally adequate food plan . |
| 14 | This research will examine the effect of marketing strategies and organisational characteristics on a company 's performance by means of a comparative study of British and German machine tool manufacturers . |
| 15 | The handsome verdite bath with six silver taps stands on a marble floor . |
| 16 | Carreg Cennen stands on a great crag almost 300 feet above the river Cennen , on a site of truly spectacular defensive qualities . |
| 17 | I charged across the sands , the dunes to my left moving by like stands on a racetrack . |
| 18 | An attendant from the tabernacle came along with a bucket and a sponge on a stick . |
| 19 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |
| 20 | Yet more featured an emaciated man , clad only in underpants , lying face-down on a bed , his ribs and backbone pushing against his skin . |
| 21 | Remuneration packages may combine foreign service premia and hardship allowances or treat the payment of foreign service premia on a similar basis to that of hardship allowances , that is , the former are increased according to the environment in which the expatriate is asked to work . |
| 22 | It 's just that , unlike some other European countries , nakedness on a beach is n't considered a crime . |
| 23 | Many new fans missed out on the spiky delights of their early material so Red Rhino did a mopping up exercise and put 12 songs on a mid-price album called ‘ Tommy ’ . |
| 24 | Not for Afghan Whigs the cop-out of basing songs on a single , howling riff . |
| 25 | Spot the name Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon on a wine label and you know you 've something to look forward |
| 26 | He sat beside the wide fires all day , overflowing his stool like a walrus on a rock , half a dozen wooden spoons ready at hand . |
| 27 | Approved Training Practices are monitored by the Association on a five-year cycle and are required to comply with guidelines designed to ensure the high standards of certified accountants in public practice and maintain the flexibility of the ACCA qualification . |
| 28 | PETER Hunter , Damien Sarsfield and John Smethurst are seeking election to the National Executive Council of the National and Local Government 's Officers ' Association on a platform of total opposition to the union 's present disgraceful policy on abortion . |
| 29 | Oakeshott 's rejection of any attempts to found civil association on a legitimizing principle is a critical aspect of his theory . |
| 30 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |