Example sentences of "on [det] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this a large collection of frosted Lalique glassware captured the light to perfection . |
| 2 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 3 | For Max , it was perfectly normal , just the way one expected to start out on such a chequered route through life . |
| 4 | Since mallards do not dive there was presumably no great competition between the two species for food but with over 100 birds on such a small stretch of water it was difficult to see how there could be enough to go round . |
| 5 | The Princess deserved better ; a high-performance seagoing cruiser , it would be wasted on such a sedate stretch of inland water as the lake beyond the boat house doors . |
| 6 | Why rely on such a volatile source of fuel for our power stations when a steady supply could be obtained from the magical uranium ? |
| 7 | He told inmates at Pentonville Prison , London : ‘ I have never sat on such a hard chair in my life . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 9 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 10 | But on such a large complex like this , we ca n't be everywhere at the same time . |
| 11 | Any particular settlement under study may have been a very minor place on such a large estate with the caput of the estate some distance away . |
| 12 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |