Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I am perfectly fit myself I had to consider Miller 's tribulation with some care , for I am here putting a foot on to an unknown terrain — always an exhilarating experience for a writer . |
| 2 | But Labour councillor Gordon Plummer said it would be difficult to find anyone to take the building on on an annual tenancy until the future of the cattle market nearby was sorted out . |
| 3 | It appears that German states are opposing a VAT-like tax on in an inconsistent way , aggravated , aggravated by a failure to warn of any increase in the tax in January nineteen ninety three . |
| 4 | According to the PLO 's sources , the Toshiba radio-cassette bomb used to destroy Flight 103 had been built by Khaisar Haddad , also known as Abu Elias , a blond , blue-eyed Lebanese Christian member of the PFLP — GC , who passed the completed device on to an Iranian contact in Beirut . |
| 5 | In the mortuary the night porters had swung open the huge white doors of the refrigerator and lifted the shrouded , stiffened body on to an empty shelf . |
| 6 | But Mann has battled through everything to make a visually stunning piece of cinema that has launched a notoriously shy and guarded actor on to an international career as a leading man . |
| 7 | Below the stage , one of several interchangeable magnifying lens systems focusses the image on to an inclined plane mirror at the base of the instrument . |
| 8 | At Bayeux the choir was rebuilt in the thirteenth century on to an earlier nave , presenting a fine composition from the east ( 432 ) . |
| 9 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 10 | Intel 's Michael Pope said the the AST Manhattan was spot on for an emerging market for what he termed shrink wrapped servers — application server sold with pre-installed operating system and database software . |