Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not located on a structural culmination , the well had a small show of methane at the top of the Lower Permian Sandstone beneath the Magnesian Limestone and Zechstein salt . |
| 2 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 3 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 4 | The latter are more specialised , and usually based on a single large manufacturer . |
| 5 | Levels for patients tested and then re-examined on a subsequent occasion remained the same . |
| 6 | Medium-term loans are to a large extent funded by short-term deposits which have to be repaid and then re-borrowed on a continuous basis . |
| 7 | The output of the monochromator was detected by a photomultiplier , amplified and then plotted on a wavelength-synchronized x-y recorder . |
| 8 | The module which caused the new volume to be opened will not be entered into it but will be reported in the batch file as an oversize item and hard copied on a later run . |
| 9 | In this way Brown ( 1979 ) devised five formative phases in the evolution of Britain which are necessarily unequal in length and almost plotted on a logarithmic time scale . |
| 10 | Ashmount Hotel Detached and beautifully situated on a quiet road off the promenade . |
| 11 | A World Apart was brilliant in its way but tightly focussed on a white mother and daughter ; Cry Freedom 's black scenes were much less convincing than its white , and descended into an adventure yarn ; while Mapantsula offered a portrait of a gangster without attempting to seize the big picture . |
| 12 | The arrangement is different ( though possibly based on a nine-panelled grid ) and the standard of workmanship superior , ( pI . |