Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish motorists , however , could receive preferential rates if , as expected , they are used as guinea pigs to prove that the theory of in-car navigation system can be made to work effectively on a national scale . |
| 2 | THE sons of two members of 60s rock band Cream are to appear together on a new album to be released in January . |
| 3 | It has provided an advice service to staff and students , conducted research and published information , but perhaps most of all has provided through its regional and local groups , and national conferences , an opportunity for teaching staff and others to meet together on a regular basis to share ideas and experience . |
| 4 | From an early stage regular homework is given and channels of communication are established through the child 's daily use of a homework diary , enabling parents and teachers to communicate informally on a daily basis . |
| 5 | The Islington Crime Survey ( ICS ) of 1985 was the first study to focus solely on an inner city area According to the Department of the Environment Islington is the seventh most deprived area of England and the fifth worst area where housing is concerned . |
| 6 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 7 | This was to avoid the difficult and genuinely contentious question and to focus instead on a secondary matter . |
| 8 | Alan Peter Elkin , 34 , of Oxbridge Lane , Stockton , was committed by Darlington magistrates yesterday for crown court trial on charges of passing a counterfeit £10 note and attempting to do so on a separate occasion . |
| 9 | Although Balcon was not the first to make films in Germany , he was the first to do so on a regular basis . |
| 10 | Those who wish to continue to serve can volunteer to do so on a part-time basis in the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 11 | Furthermore , it was difficult both to secure part of the surplus from self-supporting peasant households ( with a rather low participation in any monetary economy ) and to do so on a fair basis , that is , one which did not provoke revolt . |
| 12 | With a fixed exchange rate , that means that Britain loses competitiveness , and will continue to do so on a cumulative basis . |
| 13 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 14 | Where white and black churches exist side by side , some congregations are now meeting to worship together on a quarterly basis . |
| 15 | He would have to leave early on a sick call , he said . |
| 16 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 17 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 18 | One feature I was sad to see here on a recent visit was a fish hatchery installed in the bay , a sight now common in the western lochs and doubtless contributing to the local economy ; sad because I feel that all living creatures should have freedom of movement and not be bred and confined in restricted space for the table . |
| 19 | Embyronic development is far too elaborate a process to simulate realistically on a small computer . |
| 20 | At our next meeting we were able to have a long chat , I found very frank and easy to talk to and felt very much that a two way supportive relationship developed quite quickly , as opposed to supporter-supportee ( does this word exist ? ) . is now 14 months old and we have contrived to get together on a regular basis . |
| 21 | The only disadvantage is having to stay indoors on a lovely day . ’ |
| 22 | This was a lone voice but his view reflects the sort of pressure which compels the taxpayer to pay even on an unlawful demand by the revenue . |
| 23 | It needs to think ahead on a systematic basis . |
| 24 | It may be the pro prospective candidate or panel name to go forward on a prospective candidate or something like that er and then there 'd be er a talk by , by the chairman about the finances or what we ought to do er to organize er events to improve the finances . |
| 25 | The thought that the position of this find and others might be located by map using basic geometry is an intriguing one , but at least one tomb of a Knight Templar has been found to lay exactly on an important map intersection in the Rennes Valley . |
| 26 | But the defendants claimed they were just using the boards to shelter behind on a windy day , while they had a cup of tea . |
| 27 | Suggesting that " the time is right to move forward on a conventional arms control agreement , to move towards more appropriate levels of military forces in Europe " , he proposed that the USA and the Soviet Union should each reduce to 195,000 the number of their combat forces in central and eastern Europe . |