Example sentences of "of [noun sg] on a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both shifting the timing of the sleep period from the habitual 12 p.m. to 8 a.m. and either increasing or decreasing the total amount of sleep had similar effects in reducing accuracy and speed of response on a vigilance task . |
| 2 | Of the remainder , IBM has only ever marketed its 600dpi product through the traditional channels ( it 's appearance at last year 's IPEX was something of an aberration while neither Printware or LaserMaster have sufficient of a foothold in the market to splash large sums of money on a marketing campaign . |
| 3 | On Mr Carr 's instructions , his in-house accountant noted which stock lines AY was testing and altered the other lines of stock on a computer spread sheet . |
| 4 | However , member states may enforce participation in certain cases and expand the scheme to include other sectors of industry on a trial basis . |
| 5 | And , believe us , before three cups of tea on a Monday morning , we are not very easily impressed . |
| 6 | But a survey is often the only approach even for the physical sciences ; an engineer , investigating the effects of gusts of wind on a suspension bridge must accept the wind speeds that nature happens to provide during the period of observation . |
| 7 | It might be that the traveller after a prolonged deadlock sees a picture of Bali on a magazine cover as he is walking past a newspaper stand , thinks ‘ I must go there ’ , the decision is made , and from then on he never wavers . |
| 8 | The reader presumably can just as easily reconstruct an alternative context ( e.g. a description of the effects of marijuana on a Nativity play performance ) in which Mary would not be proposed as ‘ the topic of the discourse ’ . |
| 9 | the theories of accumulation on a world scale , or the capitalist world state , or lineages of absolutism depend ( a ) on the same displaced percipient and historicist observer who had been an Orientalist or colonial traveller three generations ago ; ( b ) they depend also on a homogenising and incorporating world historical scheme that assimilated non-synchronous developments , histories , cultures , and peoples to it ; and ( c ) they block and keep down latent epistemological critiques of the institutional , cultural and disciplinary instruments linking the incorporative practice of world history with partial knowledges like Orientalism on the one hand , and on the other , with continued ‘ Western ’ hegemony of the non-European , peripheral world . |
| 10 | The trouble began in November 1978 when Docherty attempted to sue the Scottish international winger Willie Morgan over remarks the player made about his style of management on a Granada TV sports programme called Kick Off . |
| 11 | Well they have erm three bottles of lager on a Saturday night and they 're them big bottles like that , you know them plastic bottles ? |
| 12 | In consequence , it is not possible to define a rate of return on a futures contract , and some other type of analysis must be used which does not require the use of the sum invested . |
| 13 | The actual rate of return on a futures position depends both on whether the position is long or short , and on the amount of margin that has to be paid . |
| 14 | standing terrified by the door , I saw an officer lean forward on his horse and hit a neighbour with his truncheon above the eyes , heard the blow like the thump of wood on a swede turnip . |
| 15 | EVERTON are to carry out over £2.5 million worth of work on a Goodison Park facelift in an effort to bring the stadium up to standard for the 1996 European Championships . |
| 16 | MAS will charge for its services in connection with the above programme of work on a time basis . |
| 17 | And he said : ‘ I 've been in a state of panic on a snooker table at various times during the past two or three years because I knew I was n't playing well . |
| 18 | Wood floorcoverings come in the form of hardwood blocks , square mosaic panels made up of individual fingers of wood , or planks ( often of veneer on a plywood backing ) . |
| 19 | Arrange the lettuce leaves and slices of cucumber on a serving platter . |
| 20 | Other offences included not having a bar of soap on a wash basin and no ‘ Now Wash Your Hands ’ sign on the wall and having a cracked marble worktop . |
| 21 | Alternatively , dispense 10 double drops of fixative on a wax plate ( dental wax , or a sheet of parafilm stuck down on a glass surface ) , and float each grid on the surface of a drop ( 1 grid per drop — use each drop once only ) . |
| 22 | Even her father , Scarlet had gathered , had sometimes talked to his children , offering words of advice on a Saturday evening . |
| 23 | a bit of arson on a Sunday night never went down badly |
| 24 | A column for total sales and/or for the calculation of commission on a percentage basis would be added . |
| 25 | Galvone called out , ‘ Come on in , ’ and the butler appeared with a folded sheet of paper on a silver salver . |
| 26 | scuffs of paint on a graphite Mozart , |
| 27 | A COUSIN of Prince Charles was pulled over by police yesterday for trying to dodge a queue of traffic on a motorway slip road . |
| 28 | In the Catholic school , and especially within the primary sector , the teacher 's role is not only that of professional educator but is also that of companion on a pilgrim journey of faith . |
| 29 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 30 | Indeed , the proliferation of adventures in the South Atlantic , Abyssinia , China , Japan and New Guinea , with the addition of the Maori Wars , shipwreck and the challenge of life on a desert island , earthquake and eruptions , suggests that Kingston was at last finding it difficult to adapt his exalted heroes to the kind of narrative his readers expected . |