Example sentences of "on a [noun] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , on a Dow-Stoker Returners programme she discovered that she had quite a strong numerical ability , and decided that she would like to work in an accounts department . |
| 2 | The gunner was provided with a .303in Lewis gun mounted on a Scarf gun ring which moved aft on rails for mooring purposes . |
| 3 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 4 | Fellow student Keith Gregory responded to an advert Gedge had pinned up on a university notice board which sought an ‘ Introverted bass player , influenced by The Fall , The Chameleons , The Velvet Underground and The Sound . ’ |
| 5 | With Rosario fit and Townsend available , Norwich are well equipped to improve on a home League record which has seen them win one game and draw the rest . |
| 6 | [ Drawing on a case register summary he continues ] any further reduction of mental hospital beds will be to the detriment of the chronic mentally disturbed person . |
| 7 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 8 | Having joked here about television 's inability to tell its expatriots ( people who once loved their country ) from its expatriates ( people who , like my mum and dad , live abroad ) on a lunchtime television programme somebody sent a cutting . |
| 9 | Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love . |
| 10 | Chris and Caz are two soulmates who are disc-jockeys on a pirate radio station they run from the back of a North London garage . |
| 11 | Also any information on a Handley Page Hampden which force-landed on Achnahaird sands and was recovered by an RAF unit by road . |
| 12 | The following year a London magistrate , struck by the notion that there should not be one law for the rich unavailable to the poor , permitted a man named Gleaves to bring proceedings against the authors and publishers of a book entitled " Johnny Go Home " , based on a Yorkshire television documentary which had exposed his insalubrious hospitality to feckless youths . |
| 13 | At twenty-one Renate did not have the most exciting job in the world , but with her German friends on a radio assembly line she seemed happy and settled . |
| 14 | A POST-MORTEM examination may help explain the shooting tragedy that killed the son of late Kung Fu star Bruce Lee on a U.S. movie set which has suffered a spate of accidents . |
| 15 | A girl on a health education course I once taught told me of someone she knew whose husband had died after six months of marriage . |
| 16 | Now the Precise Power Corporation of Florida , has filed a European patent application ( 69 568 ) on a power back-up system which does not rely on batteries . |
| 17 | Investigators had concluded that this suitcase had reached Frankfurt on an Air Malta flight which left Malta earlier that day . |
| 18 | This solo was played on an Ovation acoustic guitar which was most probably DI'ed straight into the mixing desk . |
| 19 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |