Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's all enough to make one feel quite patriotic and forgive and forget the years of Allegros , Marinas and Princesses that British Leyland foisted on a wretched , unsuspecting British public .
2 OUTGUNNED Muslim forces fought off Serb and Croat attacks on two fronts yesterday as Bosnian Serbs voted on an international peace plan they seem certain to reject .
3 Some prostitutes in ancient Greece hit on a novel way of plying their trade .
4 Super Mario exists on a sole diet of mushrooms , which he gobbles up during the game , but Mario 's favourite food is pasta .
5 Unlike its counterpart in Lithuania , however , which had split decisively from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ] , the Estonian CP decided on a six-month transitional period before taking a final vote on the issue of the party 's future relations with the CPSU .
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