Example sentences of "and [adv] on a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |
| 2 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 3 | Now EMF are fed up and want to be serious , spiritual rock stars and mates with Bono — and still on a diet of dangerous drugs and sex . |
| 4 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 5 | In Britain support for families has focused less on parent education and teaching parenting skills and more on a range of informal support services ( De'Ath , 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Counsel on both sides seem to have accepted that an Anton Piller order could have extra-territorial reach ; the challenge made for the defendant rested partly on an argument that an English court could not deal with title to or possession of foreign immovables ( rejected as there was an equity between the parties ) and partly on a plea of forum non conveniens ( rejected on the facts , and because reliance on an application in an alternative forum would cause a delay during which assets could be disposed of ) . |
| 7 | Within a swift span of years , however , life expectancy and infant mortality have assumed Third World proportions : inferior even to Albania 's and roughly on a par with Malaysia 's . |
| 8 | My behaviour was based partially on hypocrisy and partially on a fear of rejection . |
| 9 | The examination statistics as a whole show girls ahead of boys in numbers of subjects taken and passed , and grades obtained at 16+ , and almost on a par at A level . |
| 10 | The military is frequently characterized as conservative if not reactionary , and certainly on a majority of occasions it is seen to support stability and the status quo . |
| 11 | Comparing adult premiums for two weeks in Europe and worldwide on a selection of major policies and some smaller insurers , recommended for their low rates in last year 's Which ? magazine survey , produces the following examples . |