Example sentences of "on a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 2 | There is a clear contrast here between cases of the use of serious force in self-defence , where there may be a need to act instantaneously on a hastily formed view of the situation , and sexual intercourse with another , where consent or non-consent is the essence of the crime and can be ascertained by asking a plain question of the victim . |
| 3 | One of the hazards of interviewing is succumbing to the temptation of jumping to a conclusion too quickly , based perhaps on a hastily formed first impression ( see First impressions on page 69 ) . |
| 4 | He wrote that no new ballet could be founded on a dead ritual . |
| 5 | Eliot draws a distinction between fertile ‘ borrowing ’ from remote cultural sources and ‘ founding ’ art on a dead ritual . |
| 6 | The bay is a beautiful and tranquil enclave on a generally rugged coast . |
| 7 | For Hart , the existence of law and legal systems depends on a generally observable pattern of social and institutional behaviour in which ‘ rules ’ are generally effective ( Hart , 1961 ) . |
| 8 | Pleistocene changes of sea level were not simple up and down movements with reversion to a pre-existing level , but oscillations superimposed on a generally downward movement . |
| 9 | The Wall Street Journal once reported a mainframe customer 's remark that the Amdahl coffee cup on his desk might look ordinary but it was in fact worth a million dollars , the size of IBM 's concession on a hotly contested deal . |
| 10 | We need to communicate with each other on a regularly basis over all the issues that have been raised . |
| 11 | Public appreciation of science was high , and funds for research became available on a previously unheard-of scale . |
| 12 | Following Andy 's directions , I saw climbers on a previously uncharted crag , which looked so big I began to run . |
| 13 | A further requirement is to be able to select for execution one out of two or more sequences of instructions depending on a previously calculated numeric value . |
| 14 | Some examples ( where the conditional repetition is based on a previously initialized counter ) are : ( a ) If X is " move " and the updating is incrementation by one , we have the block transfer operations described in 2.4 . |
| 15 | As an indication of just how easy it can be to start using a Macintosh from scratch we have recently installed a network system running PageMaker , MacWrite and MacDraw on a previously PC-only site . |
| 16 | The systematic questioning of the efficiency and importance of each kind of public-sector job had a searching effect on a previously fairly stable geographical pattern of employment . |
| 17 | The former is a traditional , working class district , redeveloped since the war and now housing a sizeable black and elderly population ; the latter is a new , working class estate created on a previously unused site and accommodating a relatively small nonwhite population . |
| 18 | Nearly out of fuel , it landed on a previously uncharted islet , inadvertently adding a new outpost to the Philippine republic . |
| 19 | Both groups need to leave and are intending to settle on a previously uninhabited planet . |
| 20 | One moment you are on a path by a stream , the next you are balancing on a carefully placed tree trunk to cross the stream for the hundredth time . |
| 21 | Above all else , it is important that psychiatric inpatient care is based on a carefully coordinated policy , especially for patients at particular risk of suicide . |
| 22 | It is impossible to discover when and by whom the decision to depose the king was taken , but when parliament assembled , Mortimer and his supporters embarked on a carefully orchestrated campaign to win support for the removal of the king . |
| 23 | So a hummingbird that specialises in feeding from Heliconia has to patrol a whole group of plants , visiting each hanging spike of blossoms in strict rotation on a carefully timed schedule . |
| 24 | The Yale study was designed to obtain reliable statistical data , based on a carefully constructed random sample ( 2,134 cases ) , representative of the user population of a large library It was hailed as a standard model and projects with very large sample groups , numbering into the thousands , followed ; i.e. , Palmer , 5,062 , and Tagliacozzo , 2,681 . |
| 25 | Because British intelligence has been reluctant to spy on a legitimately elected government and has also been forbidden from keeping ministers under surveillance , MI5 has welcomed the CIA 's intervention and given it a free rein in its British operations , always provided that it can share the resulting information . |
| 26 | The CPT was established in 1980 on a jointly funded basis , shared between the NSPCC and Rochdale Social Services Department . |
| 27 | This communal support for older people in early modern England could be on a remarkably generous scale . |
| 28 | In liberal democratic circles , those most strongly identified with the dissident tradition , the 1989 revolutions are seen as the chance to embark on a qualitatively new political future . |
| 29 | Mr Pöhl meanwhile is trying to ensure that , when the Bundesbank is restructured to accommodate new representatives from eastern Germany , his own power to insist on a rigorously anti-inflationary policy is not diluted . |
| 30 | The coming into being over the last 30 years of the political communities of Scotland , Wales , women , Afro-Caribbeans , Asians , Muslims , — each of these is premised on a freshly ‘ discovered ’ history of violence . |