Example sentences of "on a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a new housing estate the priority task is to establish Christian cells rather than launch into a brick-by-brick building scheme . |
| 2 | On a sparkling spring day the vista is quite superb , while the famed Channel Islands ' sunsets can be enjoyed in all their technicolored splendour . |
| 3 | He usually arrived on a powerful motor bicycle a B.M.W. , I am told . |
| 4 | On a hot summer afternoon a few weeks later , Caroline trooped wearily home from work and opened her postbox to find a long white envelope bearing the logo of the Davis School of Design . |
| 5 | On a gleaming fibreglass deck a girl with waist-length chestnut hair and tiny navy shorts was reclining against the cockpit , calling something to a man on a neighbouring craft . |
| 6 | Is a heaving scrum of pushchairs , children , mums , grandads and dogs in the cloakroom at five to nine on a wet Monday morning the best way to start the week ? |
| 7 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 8 | None emerged with the necessary overall majority , however , and in the absence of agreement on a national unity government a second round run-off between the two leading candidates on Jan. 6 would be necessary , with the new President due to take office on Jan. 14 , 1991 . |
| 9 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 10 | Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him . |
| 11 | On an individual subject basis the University scored top ratings of 5 in Applied Social Sciences and Film and Media Studies with ratings of 4 in , signifying work of national importance overall and international standing in some or all areas of activity in these subjects . |
| 12 | On an early test flight the undercarriage retraction mechanism jammed because a glove got caught up and the gear collapsed in the subsequent landing , fortunately without damage to the airframe . |