Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] a " in BNC.

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1 Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale .
2 We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales .
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 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 .
7 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 .
8 Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him .
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