Example sentences of "[det] [noun] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose when you spend all that money on a girl you do n't want to spend the evening wheezing into your hankie , do you ? |
| 2 | The St Albans clock had two similar escapements , one to control the going-train and one to ring the bell each hour on a twenty-four-hour system with the number of strokes equal to the hour . |
| 3 | After all , mass-produced will always be mass-produced , but the whole point of mass-produced electrics is that you can walk into a store , pick the very best example from a row of several , spend a little money on a great setup , and maybe some pickups , and still save enough over a custom guitar to buy yourself an extremely nice amplifier . |
| 4 | The diagram should be produced by writing each function on a card , the cards are then arranged to meet the criteria . |
| 5 | The client is required to rate their anxiety on the programme chart after each trial on a scale of 1–100 , where 1 is no anxiety and 100 is maximum anxiety . |
| 6 | Equilibrium results in each case on a wider basis ; we are now dealing with unstable equilibrium with positive indication . |
| 7 | He left the Palace of Westminster that afternoon on a wave of fulfilment and popularity . |
| 8 | Philip and she spent sixty pounds of it that afternoon on a secondhand gas boiler . |
| 9 | Events : A teaching weekend each term on a different historical instrument , designed both for beginners and the more experienced , and covering both playing and maintenance . |
| 10 | The most convenient manual format for recording terms is to write each term on a card , and to note underneath any comments about the term that are to feature in the thesaurus or list of subject headings . |
| 11 | This will enable the accounting staff to reconcile the totals of each batch on a daily basis . |
| 12 | Each fence on a cross country course varies , if only a little , and requires a different method of approach . |
| 13 | The next step will be to ask individual Departments if they can supplement the data and provide updates to that data on a regular basis . |
| 14 | There was some milk on a plate on top of the box . |
| 15 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 16 | Staff in colleges , schools , and other training centres clearly welcome advance information about the new vocational qualifications being developed by SCOTVEC , and we shall be producing further information of this kind on a regular basis . |
| 17 | She waited for some minutes on a platform , a train came and she would have got into it if that had been possible . |
| 18 | I was ( I think you will understand ) initially dubious about a single 10″ driver in such a small box really delivering the goods ( especially with the lower notes on my 5-string ) but was certainly intrigued by the cabinet design , so I was looking forward to giving the little beast some stick on a couple of gigs … |
| 19 | be interesting this bit on a bigger one wo n't it ? |
| 20 | I have myself used this technique on a number of occasions in both urban and book research . |
| 21 | He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle . |
| 22 | The head put a few notes on a pad and Nails was set free , leaving the two teachers puzzled . |
| 23 | At this hour on a winter 's afternoon , before the works came out , the crowd was mixed . |
| 24 | This is Piladu 's place , but if you ask me there 'll be nobody in at this hour on a Saturday . |
| 25 | So , she came back out of er pre-med , had a nice happy half hour on a bit of valium and came back out of it again . |
| 26 | SID won this contract on a competitive basis illustrating that AEA can provide a quality service at competitive prices . |
| 27 | For example , rats given electroconvulsive shock ( ECS ) immediately after learning a simple avoidance response fail to show this response on a subsequent test , a result that has been interpreted as showing that the ECS destroys the original memory trace . |
| 28 | Nothing would , nothing could go wrong today ; he ought to find a betting shop and put some money on a horse , he felt so lucky , so good , so in tune . |
| 29 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 30 | I need to refix some spindles on a staircase . |