Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the occasion in question when he was due to go on a fourth visit , the prison was informed that unfortunately the relative had died . |
| 2 | Then , once the owner realizes that the building is of value , it may be possible to agree on a constructive course of action . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented . |
| 4 | In an area of weak lordship , Louis was prepared to capitalize on a simple right of protection to claim an old public obligation , a new feudal lordship , and a new territorial stake . |
| 5 | Has an attempt been made to identify nurses in the local community who would be prepared to work on a casual basis ? |
| 6 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 7 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 8 | Branches should try to compile and maintain a lists of people willing to help on a casual basis like this . |
| 9 | One moment of madness by Norwich goalkeeper Bryan Gunn resulted in the penalty which earned the Swiss the draw they craved , leaving the Scots to reflect on a missed opportunity to stay on the fringe of the qualifying race . |
| 10 | With many more illustrations , a shorter text rigorously checked and edited , decent notes and index , the book would be greatly improved but is is sad to reflect on a great opportunity missed . |
| 11 | The associated space approach is made easy to handle on a semi-automated basis ( while the direct insertion is essentially an interactive process ) . |
| 12 | We are content to develop on a co-operative basis a whole range of policies . |
| 13 | Those not teaching at the present time are welcome to attend on a daily basis at £2 per session . |
| 14 | Let me just point out to you that last year if you remember they asked you to describe the the passage where Jesus is crucified , that 's 1521 to 31 and I guess they wo n't do that again this year , but they 're likely to pick on a significant passage , significant section then you 're asked to relate it relate the passage at the end of Mark 's Gospel where Jesus is crucified . |
| 15 | She had real women friends : pretty , witty women more likely to speculate on a swift method of fermenting potato peel than slaver over wild sorrel . |
| 16 | To these can be added management lists , or forecasts of how people were likely to vote on a particular measure , and marked election return lists , which record gains and losses for a party . |
| 17 | The party affiliation of the member is still the best single indicator of how he or she is likely to vote on a given bill , but party unity is very much less than in the British House of Commons . |
| 18 | Students who seem likely to fail on a particular goal , for example attendance , may be offered counselling and support . |
| 19 | This is only likely to happen on a large scale if an institution is failing to achieve a good return on the capital invested . |
| 20 | They are labour intensive , however , and complex to perform on a large scale , for example , in clinical regimens . |
| 21 | Engels says that Cognos is now in the early stages of negotiation with ICL and Bull and the company is engineering a Unix System V.4-compliant product that will make it economically more reasonable to appear on a wider variety of Unix environments . |
| 22 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
| 23 | But such men were totally unwilling to embark on a diplomatic career by doing humdrum routine work or studying documents , and then rising step by slow step through a hierarchy of ranks . |
| 24 | ‘ But they say it 's very healthy to sleep on a hard surface . ’ |
| 25 | If the Unix suppliers are able to agree on a consistent systems management application programming interface — and each also uses a similar implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture — Corba — independent software vendors would be able to offer binary system management applications running across a variety of platforms . |
| 26 | If the Unix suppliers are able to agree on a consistent systems management application programming interface — and each also uses a similar implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture — Corba — independent software vendors would be able to offer binary system management applications running across a variety of machines . |
| 27 | This means that even if the government , the TUC and CBI were able to agree on a particular course of development of the national economy ‘ the state and the social partners alike are unable to enforce compliance with such a plan at the micro-level ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 28 | I live directly opposite to them , and there were two of their neighbours who effectively unable to carry on a normal life throughout most of the time that they were there . |
| 29 | If accepting shareholders feel that the offeror has behaved badly , they may well accept a cash offer but feel reluctant to invest on a long-term basis in the offeror . |
| 30 | Despite deep concern over the possibility of a major nuclear accident in the former Soviet republics or Eastern Europe , Western governments have been unable to agree on a comprehensive aid package to improve safety standards [ see also ED65/66 ] . |