Example sentences of "on a [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In October 1991 , when the local authority negotiated a long-term foster home placement in Windsor it seems reasonable to suppose then they had already embarked on a plan to move towards adoption . |
| 2 | And pub landlords who operate on overdrafts may be forced to put up to 2p on a pint to stay in business . |
| 3 | Libby , a PE teacher from Ballymena , first met Simonica in January 1992 , when she visited the Brasov-based Marianna 's orphanage on a trip organised by School Aid Romania . |
| 4 | Posing as Middle East Correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network , he was on a mission to serve as linkman for the DIA 's Lebanese spy network and to frustrate an Iran-Contra arms deal engineered by Oliver North . |
| 5 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 6 | On a floor tiled in mother-of-pearl , the alabaster bath and hand basin designed by the architect have silver taps while , inset behind the bath , the water closet is enclosed in a carved chair . |
| 7 | Get a chocolate egg about six inches high and place this on a wall made of cake . |
| 8 | As night approached , the man was forced to put on a belt packed with plastic explosives and connected to a detonator . |
| 9 | Later , the guard was forced to put on a belt packed with plastic explosives and connected to a detonator . |
| 10 | The train newly arrived on a European covered in dust blown from the Gobi Desert , or encrusted with salt spray from the Bosporus . |
| 11 | In some species the support is on a spiral made of calcium carbonate ( see p. 120 ) . |
| 12 | In the Histories , however , he is sly , drunken and spineless , even lifting a sentence of excommunication on a man suspected of matricide . |
| 13 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 14 | Unable at first to afford even a bed , she slept behind the shop on a sack filled with paper straw from the empty sweet boxes . |
| 15 | Roll out to 5mm thick on a board coated with icing sugar . |
| 16 | The second area of current research in macroeconomics centres on a phenomenon known as hysteresis . |
| 17 | Detailed interviews are being conducted on a sample drawn from court records of divorced people representing men , women , pursuers , defenders , receivers and payers of maintenance . |
| 18 | In a computer oriented towards numerical calculation , the operations must include provision for addition and subtraction , and probably multiplication and division as well ; on a computer oriented towards character manipulation there would be various operations for moving and scanning character strings . |
| 19 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 20 | I 'm still here ! ’ spoken by McQueen when he finally escapes on a craft made of coconut shells — an attempt to round off the story as a paean of praise to survival . |
| 21 | In industry , although incremental profiles are less explicit mobility between firms may be the route to higher wages on a scale rising with age . |
| 22 | Too obviously he had lunched well on a dish laced with garlic , and he kept twirling his dark moustache , of which he seemed inordinately proud , while in halting French I explained my purpose . |
| 23 | His figure , which was based on a tally kept by victim support groups , was criticized by other experts , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before such a large number of people could develop cancer . |
| 24 | Speaking at a press conference in London , Dr Vladimir Chernousenko said his figure was based on a tally kept by victim support groups . |
| 25 | President Alfredo Cristiani told the new Legislative Assembly which opened on May 1 ( not June 1 as given on p. 38093 ) that final ratification of the amendments should be conditional on a ceasefire coming into effect . |
| 26 | In that case the making of a television series by the defendants based on a concept communicated in confidence by the plaintiffs was held to be a breach of confidence . |
| 27 | There is , for example , a vessel on a stand surrounded by ropework . |
| 28 | Indeed , Hitler 's rise to power was based on a promise to fight on behalf of the powerless against ‘ big business ’ . |
| 29 | On a surface dusted with cornflour , roll out 1.1 kg ( 2½ lb ) fondant icing large enough to cover the cake in one piece . |
| 30 | Roll the black fondant out on a surface dusted with cornflour or icing sugar to a strip about 5cm-(2inches) wide and as long as the circumference of the cake . |