Example sentences of "[adv] on a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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) ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think erm certainly for a child to rely entirely on a calculator for all mathematical operations would be a disastrous thing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well especially on a day like this , I mean you ca go out on a day like today . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think , you 'd be surprised here , I do , with how the bands speak at like , especially on a rockumentary on T V. |
| 12 | The company wants to blast 200,000 tonnes annually on a site at Windyhill Farm , between Elderslie and Johnstone . |
| 13 | A tiny spider floated down on a thread from a purple-headed thistle and scuttled over her hand . |
| 14 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 15 | I was led into a dark room and told to lie face down on a mattress on the floor . |
| 16 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |
| 17 | He jotted the three names down on a slip of paper with a gesture of finality and picked up the internal telephone , stabbing out the number for the code-room . |
| 18 | The second cell ( 82c ) contains a moaning , naked Orc chained down on a bed of nails which rip the boil-infested flesh on his back . |
| 19 | He put his coffee cup down on a pile of English magazines , got up and stretched himself . |
| 20 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 21 | Burun sat down on a pile of cushions on the floor , and settled himself to wait . |
| 22 | In this small picture , you look down on a couple of hundred thousand people and their bodies are as invisible as microbes . |
| 23 | Write it down on a bit of paper , that 's a good chap ! ’ |
| 24 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 25 | Tell you what I 'll write it down on a bit of paper what page it 's on |
| 26 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |
| 27 | It 's merely recording the words we use are taken down on a scrap of paper context I do n't but used . |
| 28 | I like to think there are n't many tricks I miss , but I have to credit Sorrel in that she did write it down on a scrap of newspaper without saying ‘ in case of what ? ’ |
| 29 | In 1944 our Lancaster of 57 Sqn , piloted by Flt Lt Bulcraig was shot down on a raid on Revigny , Northern France , killing the pilot , Bomb Aimer Fg Off Robson , Flt Eng Sgt Gale and W/Op Sgt Loughlin . |
| 30 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |