Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is quite simple : it is not a route to do on a single rope . |
| 2 | Furthermore , a payment made on the same basis as that in the case of Adams v G K N Sankey Ltd mentioned in Chapter 16 would probably also fall within the second category . |
| 3 | The pilot study is a trial run on a small number of ‘ guinea pigs ’ who should be as like the true respondents as possible in age , intelligence , social class , etc . |
| 4 | The shape when seen from the air is like a bit stuck on a bigger bit . |
| 5 | ‘ I think this is a decision based on a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 6 | ( 5 ) Evidence may only be led in respect of a decision based on an incorrect fact ( subs . |
| 7 | In previous years the British Independent Programme Producers Association had taken a stand and we were initially distressed to find that this was not to be the case in 1990 — a decision based on the exorbitant cost ( they will retain a stand at MIP-TV ) . |
| 8 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 9 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 10 | Thus a course based on a functional approach would take as its main starting point for language development what the learner wants to do through language ( Abbs & Freebairn 1977 ) . |
| 11 | FURY erupted in a border town in the Republic yesterday over a sentence imposed on a hit-and-run driver from Ulster who left a young Gaelic footballer dying on a country road . |
| 12 | Completed engines are test-driven on a rig mounted on a Doane chain-driven bus which was acquired from California when Miaco was set up . |
| 13 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 14 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 15 | Figure 5.7 is a schematic representation of the path of electromagnetic energy in the visible spectrum as it travels from the sun to the Earth and back again towards a sensor mounted on an orbiting satellite . |
| 16 | He bought back as many as possible of those that his father had sold , and added a few more ; in 1971 he published a useful short account of the history of the collection , together with a handlist based on the latest critical opinion ; and he designed , and had woven in Spain , a carpet for the gallery , a room seventy-two feet long , with a pattern repeating the intricate stucco-work of the ceiling . |
| 17 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 18 | Of course , it is much better to have a written contract , because proving a contract relying on the spoken word can be notoriously difficult . |
| 19 | I will be looking for a technique based on the recreational values of safety , economy of effort and enjoyment . |
| 20 | Dr David Tyrell , a scientist working on the Medical Research Coucil 's Aids programme , described the results at Tulane University , Louisiana , as ‘ very important and encouraging . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Traa de loor ’ , meaning time enough , is a favourite saying on the stress-free island which seems to have been trapped in a time-warp . |
| 22 | In Donna di Porto Pim , the archipelago is represented by a variety of means : the memory of the narrator and the inhabitants ; stories ; legends ; document ; biography ; a map ; a historico-topographical description ; fiction ; what the author calls ‘ guided fiction ’ , that is , a story based on an overheard conversation ; dreams and , finally , a bibliography of the impressions of earlier writers , those ‘ honest travel-books ’ which ‘ have the power to offer a theoretical and plausible elsewhere to our overwhelming , inescapable where ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 9 ) . |
| 23 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 24 | Politically conservative , Belarus earlier this month lifted a ban imposed on the Communist Party following the failed Kremlin coup of August 1991 . |
| 25 | At the end of a shaft of light streaming down an alley which led to the river , a scorpion dozed on a broken brick , though at Huy 's approach the little brown statue bristled , pincers and sting instantly alert . |
| 26 | Meanwhile two members of a hunt have won an appeal against their convictions for whipping a horse trapped on a five-bar gate . |
| 27 | It is necessary , therefore , to turn to a sonnet written on a personal theme for evidence of poetic survival . |
| 28 | At one point during his first month after the operation , a valve failed on the artificial heart , forcing the surgical team from the University of Utah Medical Centre in Salt Lake City to undertake a fresh operation to replace it . |
| 29 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 30 | One day a figure appeared on the far shore . |