Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residence at the Tuileries imposed on the Imperial family a pattern of life in which rare moments of private relaxation alternated with the exhausting obligations of public ceremonial . |
| 2 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |
| 3 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 4 | The statement prompted on the following day a message from UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd expressing surprise at its content . |
| 5 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 6 | On the following day a statement was made in the Daily Worker embodying the Comintern declaration and correcting the previous statement of policy . |
| 7 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 8 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 9 | On the following morning a number of soundings were taken . |
| 10 | In the fifth-century versions Aristogeiton is a pace in front , on the Roman relief a pace behind — perhaps only for clarity ; in the original they may have been level . |
| 11 | If the lease is to be registered at HM Land Registry and the demised property is part only of a building , then unless the land can be accurately identified on the General Map a plan must be provided ( Land Registration Rules 1925 , r54 ) . |
| 12 | This philosophy finds expression in some recent social thought and has been most notably promulgated in the area of social services , producing on the far right a philosophy of welfare in which the care of family members is increasingly seen as a private problem , to be undertaken using family resources only , and to be underpinned only in extreme circumstances by a residual network of statutory services . |
| 13 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 14 | On the far side a mountain bus route ( Timetable No 470.30 ) operates to Sarnen , which has a railway station on the Interlaken-Brunig-Luzern line . |
| 15 | On the far side a crowd of two or three hundred people had already gathered : craggy old Muslims with long beards and mountainous turbans ; small Hindu shopkeepers in blue striped lungis ; Kashmiri pandits in long frock coats and Congress hats . |
| 16 | But the most ambitious financial venture is a project to build on the Catalan coast a holiday resort called Cosmo Dali , complete with a yacht harbour and leisure park . |
| 17 | I stayed in hotels to begin with and when I finally moved into a flat , on the first night a rat ran across my chest . |
| 18 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 19 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 20 | On the other hand a call can not exceed the value of the underlying share : . |
| 21 | On the other hand a Kachin will always take it for granted that anyone whom he is prepared to classify as a Jinghpaw is a kinsman of some sort . |
| 22 | On the other hand a case lasting 2 years which went to trial where both liability and quantum were both heavily contested could easily rack up between 30 and 50 hours without too much difficulty . |
| 23 | On the one hand , individuals usually on a short-term contract with a job to do face on the other hand a bureaucracy with mixed feelings about the importance of environmental deterioration . |
| 24 | On the other hand a heart attack occurs when there is a sudden and severe blockage in one of the coronary arteries so that the blood supply to part of the heart is actually cut off . |
| 25 | But on the other hand a quarter of the total US TV audience tunes into it each week . |
| 26 | On the other hand a garden associated with an inner city dwelling will usually need to have a more formal approach . |
| 27 | On the other hand a woman 's infidelity was likely to produce a savage reaction . |
| 28 | On the other hand a refractor is more costly , and in some ways less convenient to use . |
| 29 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 30 | On the other hand a profile that fails to provide the user with required material is equally useless , however brief it may be . |