Example sentences of "[adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientific logic has put men on the moon , but seems incapable of solving the energy crisis or of providing the means whereby mankind can live purposefully on a finite planet with shrinking resources . |
| 2 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 3 | When the donor makes a chargeable transfer ( eg on a gift to a discretionary trust ) he is chargeable to inheritance tax on the amount of the reduction in his estate consequent on the making of the gift of half of the tax rates contained in Sched 1 to the 1984 Act ( IHTA 1984 , s7(2) ) . |
| 4 | ( 5 ) It will be helpful if the announcement of the offer can coincide with positive public relations coverage for the offeror. ( 6 ) Ideally , a bid should not be announced at a time when it will have a reduced impact ( eg on a day which is expected to be dominated by other major financial news or company announcements ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 6 | I could pay , I would have to pay the first eighty somewhat and I would have to pay the first ninety , ninety somewhat on a pair of glasses |
| 7 | Leaves which are small , round or elliptic , fleshy , glossy , bright green , tapering towards the base without leaf-stalks , are arranged opposite on a stiff , round , fleshy stem . |
| 8 | The leaves are bright green , finely divided , whorled to a semi-circular shape and arranged opposite on a fleshy , round stem . |
| 9 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 10 | The leaves are narrow , shiny , oval or lance-shaped , light green on the upper surface and reddish beneath , arranged opposite on a pinkish-greenish stem . |
| 11 | I think better on a full stomach — but I know one thing I 'm doing immediately after breakfast . ’ |
| 12 | That dress would hang better on a broomstick . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mere mortals forgive better on a full stomach , so how about dinner on Saturday ? |
| 15 | I 've always thought he was good-looking , but that blonde hair and those blue eyes look even better on a girl ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Instead , our man relied almost entirely on a fairly new Fender ‘ The Twin' . |
| 18 | During the interim decision on the AWA negligence case against Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu — in which AWA had alleged that DRT contributed to the $50m in foreign exchange losses the company suffered — trial judge Mr Justice Rogers asked the court why it should be that ‘ the whole burden of possibly insolvent wrongdoers falls entirely on a well-insured , or deep-pocket , defendant ’ ? |
| 19 | Glanton 's current plans for the Barnes depend entirely on a favourable judgment from the Orphans Court . |
| 20 | Continue to Quebec City , an old walled city divided into two parts : the picturesque old quarter built entirely on a cliff , and the lower town spreading up the St. Charles River Valley . |
| 21 | A further difficulty in relying entirely on a ‘ top-down ’ model arises because of the differing ways in which spoken and written language are received . |
| 22 | This suggests that physical matching was based entirely on a non-verbal mental representation of the stimuli . |
| 23 | The first was the introduction of the Apple Macintosh which was the first personal computer to be based entirely on a graphical interface as opposed to the more conventional character-at-a-time systems . |
| 24 | During the period under review , there has also been some growth in the number of students on non-advanced courses almost entirely on a full-time or sandwich basis . |
| 25 | I think erm certainly for a child to rely entirely on a calculator for all mathematical operations would be a disastrous thing . |
| 26 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 27 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 28 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 29 | The light from the lamp shone suddenly on a handsome young man in a bright red and gold army uniform . |
| 30 | To take the problem first : it is caused by the fact that there are literary modes beneath romance and beneath epic or tragedy , i.e. ‘ low mimesis ’ -this being the mode of most novels , in which the hero is much on a level with us — and lower still ‘ irony ’ , where heroes turn into anti-heroes like Sancho Panza or Good Soldier Schweik or Leopold Bloom . |