Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A covenant in a lease is , prima , a contract binding only on the lessor and lessee . |
| 2 | It is a technique used both on the Left and on the Right , by General Pinochet as well as by General Castro . |
| 3 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 4 | The most obvious of these is Apple 's PC 5.25″ drive , a standard 360K disk that connects to a card mounted internally on the SE or Macintosh II . |
| 5 | This project will , through a study based largely on the Yarborough papers at the Lincolnshire Archives Office , analyse the strategies adopted to develop and maintain the estate . |
| 6 | THE CASE for a forgery rests mainly on the claims of Palace sources who argue : |
| 7 | I follow the line of the hedge along the side of the road , ducking once as a car drives past on the road ; its headlights sweep along the hedge above me . |
| 8 | Cases are recorded in which a child was crudely exhorted to take a vow over the coffin of a parent to amend his or her childish ways ; but there were also cases in which the death of a parent worked spontaneously on the child 's feelings . |
| 9 | Ferdinando was far too old , but only mention the cause and he would be into his old daydreams , seeing himself at the head of a column moving relentlessly on the Austrians . |
| 10 | Mike Loosley , general secretary of the Inner London Teachers ' Association - the area union branch — said yesterday : ‘ There 's no getting away from the fact that a child sent home on a particular day as a result of our action will be suffering . |
| 11 | I think erm certainly for a child to rely entirely on a calculator for all mathematical operations would be a disastrous thing . |
| 12 | For one thing , a plan based only on the rebate probably needs to run for about five years to be practical , otherwise the charges will eat up too much of the benefits . |
| 13 | So , for instance , if you wanted access to a management information system on your Unix computer , to an accounts system running on a mainframe , and to a spreadsheet running locally on the PC , it would be possible to reach all of them via the same windowing front-end . |
| 14 | However , a rule that is easier to remember and to follow is : never allow the horizon in a scene to come exactly on the centre line of the frame . |
| 15 | There is a clear contrast here between cases of the use of serious force in self-defence , where there may be a need to act instantaneously on a hastily formed view of the situation , and sexual intercourse with another , where consent or non-consent is the essence of the crime and can be ascertained by asking a plain question of the victim . |
| 16 | Increasingly it has been recognized that there is a need to focus explicitly on the nature and form that child abuse or child protection interventions take in everyday practice , and in the process to try and identify models of good practice which can then be developed in the future . |
| 17 | Embyronic development is far too elaborate a process to simulate realistically on a small computer . |
| 18 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 19 | A more common description of potential energy is of an object such as a ball resting precariously on a ledge . |
| 20 | We have used here a mathematical theorem stating that the line integral of a gradient depends only on the end-points and not on the connecting path . |
| 21 | The ease with which one can learn a concept depends critically on the structure of the predicate p , which in turn depends on the description language . |
| 22 | However this is a claim made solely on the evaluation of the IBM team and it has n't been given a stamp from the National Computer Security Centre . |
| 23 | One white lone mother in my study noted that her mother was also a woman coping alone on a very limited income : ‘ she 'd rather put us first but I do n't want to see her go without . ’ |
| 24 | A choke or check chain , on the other hand , is used to train a dog to walk properly on the leash by tightening at the neck if the dog tries to pull on it . |
| 25 | Would buyers not assume that a valuation based partly on an expert test implied endorsement of that test by the surveyor ? |
| 26 | There was a strange , inhuman sound , then I heard a door shut upstairs on the top floor . |
| 27 | Most of the southern states score particularly badly on economic discrimination , but only a minority do so on the third and none do on the first . |
| 28 | A man depends largely on the woman for the light in the family , as he is often not very good at finding meaning for himself … |
| 29 | A MAN perched precariously on a crumbling ledge yesterday — threatening to jump and protesting his innocence of a burglary conviction . |
| 30 | On the table he kept a photograph , ringed with the imprint of coffee cups , of a man sitting sideways on a motor bike . |