Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a [noun sg] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no blonde except for a lady on the TV who was showing us Saniflush in the new unbreakable plastic bottle . |
| 2 | The difference between these two senses lies simply in the fact that loosening the nexus allows the main clause to be interpreted more as a consequence of the actualization of the contingent event expressed by the infinitive than as a judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence . |
| 3 | This would seem to preclude any direction being given to a taxing master other than for a taxation on a standard basis or an indemnity basis . |
| 4 | Outside the café the night sky was filled with the pale light of a ripening moon , invisible from here except as a shimmer on the quiet ocean . |
| 5 | The document proposes that each member of a partnership be assessed personally on their share of the partnership profits , rather than on an assessment on the firm for which all are jointly and severally liable . |
| 6 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 7 | The Chicago School employed ethnographic methods of data collection , and produced accounts of the lives of a wide variety of social groups , though with an emphasis on the poor and the deviant . |
| 8 | The cost of this move is high in terms of political citizenship , for without an entry on the electoral register , a person is unable to vote . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing the appeal , it was a serious defect in the summing-up to omit a direction on the burden of proof : but the omission was not necessarily fatal to the conviction and the court could properly consider whether to apply the proviso to section 2 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : Donoghue ( 1988 ) 86 Cr.App.R. 267 , 272 per Watkins L.J. , distinguishing Edwards ( 1983 ) 77 Cr.App.R. 5 ( where the omission was as to a direction on the standard of proof ) . |