Example sentences of "[adv] on an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeze blew her nose fiercely on an earthy handkerchief , and stumbled into the car . |
| 2 | Strawson himself relies entirely on an intuitive sense of the line between them , but we can see from the history of the social sciences that such intuitions change with time and place . |
| 3 | First , it shares characteristics which are common to many of the activities typically undertaken by women , especially on an unpaid basis — routine , repetitive tasks which have few circumscribed limits of time or obligation . |
| 4 | Agnes smiled and put her cup carefully down on an uneven surface of Der Spiegels and Encounters . |
| 5 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 6 | Lord Hulton , in high good humour , settled down On an upturned oil drum with my testing book on his knee . |
| 7 | The hammer finally slammed down on an empty chamber . |
| 8 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 9 | Cabochon sat down on an empty couch . |
| 10 | In sitting down on an antique bench in the locker-room , the Welsh teenager had been lanced by a wooden splinter . |
| 11 | The guy who let us in flops down on an old divan . |
| 12 | It may also provide the opportunity for you to be seconded to industry to receive additional in-service training , perhaps on an industrial management course . |
| 13 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 14 | Of the six planning departments , three are regularly asked to provide competitive financial information to the rest of the company ; two others do so on an irregular basis . |
| 15 | Any private business which has been set down for consideration at Seven o'clock on an allotted day shall , instead of being considered as provided by Standing Orders , be considered at the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bil on that day , and paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the private business for a period of three hours from the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bill or , if those proceedings are concluded before Ten o'clock , for a period equal to the time between Seven o'clock and the conclusion of those proceedings . |
| 16 | In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis . |
| 17 | This could offset feed lost to opportunistic wildlife cashing in on an easy meal ! |
| 18 | We had barged in on an 18-day course on Bioregionalism at Schumacher College , in the Old Postern at Dartington , conducted by Kirkpatrick Sale . |
| 19 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 20 | ‘ It is so good of you to look in on an old invalid when you must be so very busy at the office — what with the Dean 's compost heap yielding such unwholesome remains . ’ |
| 21 | Put in on an unyielding wicket , Colwyn were heavily indebted to all-rounder Glyn Gibbons whose 26 not out averted total batting humiliation . |
| 22 | Three years ago , when Dixons was the bidder , the position was exactly the reverse : electrical retailers were cashing in on an unprecedented boom . |
| 23 | The questions which arise in aircraft accident investigation usually relate to the boundaries of radio technology — things such as trying to establish the radio propagation conditions in which some phenomenon or other gives rise to a kink in an instrument landing system localiser or glide slope but only on an intermittent basis , or the reliability of a radio altimeter in an auto-land system during an approach over surfaces with greatly differing radio reflecting characteristics . |
| 24 | He says Technology does not sell Sun Microsystems Inc kit to end users , sells Digital Equipment Corp Unix boxes only on an account-by-account basis and describes the Data General Corp , Groupe Bull SA and Hewlett-Packard Co lines it has on its books as subsidiary ranges . |
| 25 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 26 | The reasons behind playing this game were not based only on an abstract conception of duty , but also on the notions expressed in More 's conclusion to the stage managing which offered Richard III the crown : |
| 27 | In reality it becomes almost impossible to find this amount in the budget , and projects have to limp along on an underfunded basis or with the overseas donor financing an increasing proportion of the total costs . |
| 28 | But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point . |
| 29 | Such juries bring together on an integrated basis a variety of relevant experience and opinion . |
| 30 | JMTC and Gillotts School , Henley-on-Thames have worked together on an exciting project to develop new teaching materials describing an everyday or industrial application of chemistry . |