Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were fifty p each on a background |
| 2 | She found Colin asleep on a rattan lounger on the veranda of his cottage in Holetown . |
| 3 | This form of acceptance is a legal acknowledgement of debt which provides a measure of security to the bill 's holder , as legal procedures exist in most countries to recover money due on a bill . |
| 4 | The range of adaptations possible on a hire purchase car , however , is greater that those available on the hire scheme . |
| 5 | I mean you 're not going to spend three pound forty on a prescription if you can get a bottle for about one pound fifty so |
| 6 | Other areas can also be quoted , like Winchelsea in Sussex , which was destroyed by storms and the French to be refounded in 1288 by Edward I on a hill nearby . |
| 7 | Bombs exploded in San Sebastián on Jan. 25 on a train transporting French cars , destroying 11 of them . |
| 8 | The plan was to fly to the Cook islands , and spend at least three months alone on a desert island . |
| 9 | Place the herrings flesh side uppermost on a board . |
| 10 | The tape laced up and showed a figure five on a TV screen . |
| 11 | The three parties constituting Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's ruling coalition agreed on Jan. 16 on a government programme and on the distribution of portfolios , six weeks after winning the all-German general election on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see pp. 37904-05 ] . |
| 12 | It is clear that clauses of all these types operate to restrict the remedies available on a breach of contract ; they do not prevent a breach occurring . |
| 13 | Victoria ( South ) Pier in all its elegance , with car 9 on a working to Cocker Street via Lytham Road . |
| 14 | Is it mad to spend £1 million on a folly ? |
| 15 | The meeting which was to set Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer irrevocably on the road to St Paul 's Cathedral took place in July 1980 on a hay bale at the home of Commander Robert de Pass , a friend of Prince Philip , and his wife Philippa , a lady-in-waiting to the Queen . |
| 16 | Through the living-room door , Culley could see a child asleep on a couch , an embroidered shawl covering all but one pale cheek and a cloud of blond hair . |
| 17 | Where a person was adjudged bankrupt before the new law came into force , he was entitled to an automatic discharge on 29 December 1989 or , if he was adjudged bankrupt after 29 December 1986 on a petition presented under the old law , three years after his adjudication . |
| 18 | And then , early one morning , when the affair was still unsettled and he could see the Indian girl asleep on a sofa with one arm through the strap of her handbag and the sari drawn over it , a delayed flight from Jamaica arrived with twelve unaccompanied West Indian children on board . |
| 19 | In a Congress debate on May 22 on a draft law to establish Russian sovereignty , Yeltsin put forward his own far more radical 14-point plan . |
| 20 | The ruling parties in the coalition government , the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ) and the Labour Party ( PvdA ) , reached a compromise agreement on Aug. 26 on a reform of the social security system . |
| 21 | AN American Airlines Boeing 767 on a flight from Glasgow to Chicago was grounded at a Canadian air base yesterday after a passenger made a bomb threat on board . |
| 22 | Samsung and Array — the buyout of Honeywell Inc 's Honeywell Signal Processing Technologies , have been working together since January 1991 on a family of video compression chips for the multimedia computing market , on a cost-sharing basis . |
| 23 | For example , an investigation into height and weight growth rates was conducted in January 1940 on a group of Manchester children evacuated to Glossop : generally , evacuee children who drank milk regularly grew faster than those who did not , but those who paid for the milk showed faster growth rates than the poorer children who received it free indicating that social class factors were at work . |
| 24 | A small group of vaccine researchers came from Wellcome , and the company plans to rehouse these on a university campus where collaboration and access to research equipment will be possible . |
| 25 | ‘ to stand on a road called … ‘ 'To stand ’ can be proved by the police officer who observed the vehicle stationary on a road . |
| 26 | Ah you spent the night in a Holiday Inn great on a train you 're stuck on the train . |
| 27 | For anyone with few possessions who chose to contract a variety of debts , said Lord Althorp in a Commons debate in February 1820 on a Bill that would refine the 1813 legislation , it would only be ‘ a slight visitation ’ to have to surrender them to his creditors . |
| 28 | President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani arrived in Islamabad on Sept. 6 on a state visit to Pakistan where it was reported that protocols were signed providing for increased political , economic and defence co-operation . |
| 29 | Vukovar and Vinkovci south of Osijek were bombarded on Aug. 25 on a scale unprecedented in the conflict , possibly in retaliation for the shooting down of two air force jets by Croatian forces in the area on Aug. 24 . |
| 30 | Dos Santos arrived in the USA on Sept. 15 on a visit during which he hoped to persuade Congress to review its aid to UNITA , as well as to begin establishing diplomatic relations through an " extension office " in Washington of the Angolan mission to the UN . |