Example sentences of "[adv] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) It will be helpful if the announcement of the offer can coincide with positive public relations coverage for the offeror. ( 6 ) Ideally , a bid should not be announced at a time when it will have a reduced impact ( eg on a day which is expected to be dominated by other major financial news or company announcements ) . |
| 2 | When the donor makes a chargeable transfer ( eg on a gift to a discretionary trust ) he is chargeable to inheritance tax on the amount of the reduction in his estate consequent on the making of the gift of half of the tax rates contained in Sched 1 to the 1984 Act ( IHTA 1984 , s7(2) ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 4 | That dress would hang better on a broomstick . ’ |
| 5 | I 've always thought he was good-looking , but that blonde hair and those blue eyes look even better on a girl ! ’ |
| 6 | I do hope we 've got some good stuff for this live album , because it seems we always play better on a night when we 're not recording . |
| 7 | No salaries were guaranteed and their income depended almost entirely on a proportion of fees from enrolments in classes and courses at civilian and military centres . |
| 8 | I think erm certainly for a child to rely entirely on a calculator for all mathematical operations would be a disastrous thing . |
| 9 | Continue to Quebec City , an old walled city divided into two parts : the picturesque old quarter built entirely on a cliff , and the lower town spreading up the St. Charles River Valley . |
| 10 | During the interim decision on the AWA negligence case against Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu — in which AWA had alleged that DRT contributed to the $50m in foreign exchange losses the company suffered — trial judge Mr Justice Rogers asked the court why it should be that ‘ the whole burden of possibly insolvent wrongdoers falls entirely on a well-insured , or deep-pocket , defendant ’ ? |
| 11 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 12 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 13 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 14 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 15 | To take the problem first : it is caused by the fact that there are literary modes beneath romance and beneath epic or tragedy , i.e. ‘ low mimesis ’ -this being the mode of most novels , in which the hero is much on a level with us — and lower still ‘ irony ’ , where heroes turn into anti-heroes like Sancho Panza or Good Soldier Schweik or Leopold Bloom . |
| 16 | Mr Ramsay added ‘ This year it looks as though cereal prices will be much on a par with last year and on top of that farmers will receive the area compensatory payments . |
| 17 | The taut legs standing out from the body at all angles , some hideously broken like twigs thrown carelessly on a bonfire , others still moving feebly . |
| 18 | ‘ Fancy me working in a library again , ’ he said , one hand resting idly on a card index . |
| 19 | Each day , congress leaders have attended court , apparently on a roster . |
| 20 | Try to cope but often luck " , but apparently on a fail . |
| 21 | She was now about a hundred yards away from him , apparently on a collision course with an Irish wolfhound belonging to Jake , ’ The Man You Avoid on Dog Walks ' . |
| 22 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 23 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 24 | The body could not survive healthily for very long on a diet composed of any one type of food . |
| 25 | not necessarily on a camcorder |
| 26 | Coming down , especially on a bicycle , was exhilarating , even dangerous if the handlebars developed a wobble . |
| 27 | Well especially on a day like this , I mean you ca go out on a day like today . |
| 28 | The word ‘ attested ’ is important : there was certainly more to-ing and fro-ing between Persia and Greek states than is recorded , especially on a change of ruler . |
| 29 | Thank you very much for supporting the evening , nice to see so many faces , as I said especially on a summer evening like today . |
| 30 | I think , you 'd be surprised here , I do , with how the bands speak at like , especially on a rockumentary on T V. |