Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | An attendant from the tabernacle came along with a bucket and a sponge on a stick . |
| 11 | Yet more featured an emaciated man , clad only in underpants , lying face-down on a bed , his ribs and backbone pushing against his skin . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's just that , unlike some other European countries , nakedness on a beach is n't considered a crime . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oakeshott 's rejection of any attempts to found civil association on a legitimizing principle is a critical aspect of his theory . |
| 17 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |
| 18 | The actual driving force behind American thinking on a renewal of atomic collaborations was anxiety about uranium ore supplies , which were being consumed at an increasing rate as American programmes accelerated . |
| 19 | Memos are often used to put forward a view or to provide new thinking on a subject . |
| 20 | The result of Mr Kenneth Baker 's current thinking on a national curriculum , on a new negotiating structure for teachers ' pay and conditions ind on increasing the independence ind financial responsibility of individual schools would be to make local education authorities largely redundant . |
| 21 | This has not encouraged clear thinking on a number of other points of vital importance to RE , such as the question of openness and religious commitment presumed by many to be incompatible . |
| 22 | Her hands slapped the wall , like someone drumming a loose rhythm on a tom-tom . |
| 23 | The grain may be in a pocket , hidden inside a box , or out of sight above the horse on a bird table . |
| 24 | From October that year , a small car was towed behind the first electric car of the day to South Station , and pulled by a horse on a shuttle service between there and Squires Gate . |
| 25 | Unless you keep your horse on a deep or semi-deep litter system , you will be taking the bed up every time you muck out . |
| 26 | The boy lived on a roundabout of encircling affections , complex loyalties , quick on the emotional draw , switching from role to role as bolder boys scramble from horse to horse on a carousel : and always , it seemed , outside the house of Elfed , Richard was the bringer of good fortune . |
| 27 | I 'm standing on one hip , propped up like a nonchalant horse on a summer 's day , making heavy work of waiting for him . |
| 28 | the I mean with refer to footpaths you are not allowed to ride a horse on a footpath . |
| 29 | Day works is a means of paying a contractor on a time and materials basis for incidental work to the contract to comply with the engineer 's instructions , with additions for overheads and profit . |
| 30 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |