Example sentences of "[verb] on an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale . |
| 2 | If your eyes should wander from the action on the stage at The Theatre in Chipping Norton , they might fall on an unusual dedication on the walls . |
| 3 | and how much do you think you would need on an annual basis ? |
| 4 | Would you like to represent the NCT and voice our member 's opinions and needs on an official body concerned with promoting good ante-natal care ? |
| 5 | And meeting training needs on an individual basis . |
| 6 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
| 7 | Two animated skeletons appear on an unusual wall monument of c.1710 by Francis Bird to Mrs Elizabeth Benson in St Leonard 's , Shoreditch . |
| 8 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 9 | Shortly after appearing on an independent television programme to discuss his views ( no BBC programme invited him on ) , Altrincham was hit in the face by a furious official of the League of Empire Loyalists . |
| 10 | This is more easily done when landing in an unfamiliar place , particularly if it is in a hilly area and means landing on an uphill slope . |
| 11 | This was not very difficult ; the Spanish still did not recognize other colonies in the Caribbean and the old rule of ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ went on , so that West Indian governments could still recruit on an official basis men who were committed to fighting against the Spanish whether the governments thought they were at war or not . |
| 12 | St Mary 's Mill stands on an old site , certainly used in the early part of the 14th century , as a fulling mill . |
| 13 | An important defensive position against the Turks was the fortress of Klis , which stands on an isolated pinnacle of rock overlooking the route which leads from Solin ( Salona ) to Sinj , in a gap between the Kozjak and Mosor mountains . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , ‘ those areas where pressure to build is greatest are precisely those where pressure not to build is also greatest ’ ; but , ending on an optimistic note . |
| 15 | If the landlord of an Assured Tenant wishes to obtain possession of the premises he or she must first of all serve upon the tenant a Notice Seeking Possession of a Property let on an Assured Tenancy . |
| 16 | If the land has been let on an exempt basis after 31 July 1989 , the landlord needs Customs ' written permission to opt ( Sch 6A , para 3(6) ( a ) and ( 10 ) ; Notice 742B , part V ) . |
| 17 | One day , she was cycling in just after dawn and the winter grey had lifted on an ice-blue horizon . |
| 18 | From the mid-1970s ( the punk moment ) to 1984 the dominant sensibility was a pop sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on an avant-garde critique of mass culture ; this was the account developed by Paul Morley and the other theorists of the ‘ new pop ’ . |
| 19 | The neo-Romantic poet and painter David Jones drew on an eclectic range of writing styles to create a whole series of semi-private painted inscriptions . |
| 20 | But I do know that England drew on an enormous well of self-belief . |
| 21 | I believe that the project is so exciting , innovative and imaginative that it should be approached on an all-party basis . |
| 22 | The cottar , subsisting on an inadequate holding , had a greater need for cash earnings and more time to spare , but because he accepted the hierarchical consumption ethic of the village community his aspirations were lower , so that , although working longer , he did so at a lower intensity . |
| 23 | The Morning Advertiser of 24 September reported on an in-depth survey that it had carried out into the effects of the guest beer provision . |
| 24 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 25 | Does a failure to give you a pay rise , say on an annual basis , amount to constructive dismissal ? |
| 26 | English is of this type , as can be seen in any multiple language notice , say on an international flight . |
| 27 | Kenya , one of its main strongholds , could still boast of a 20,000 strong population at the end of the 1960s , but over the next decade , poaching on an unprecedented scale — mainly by Somali bandits armed with AK 47s — had reduced their numbers to a few hundred . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 29 | Whitby police are looking for thieves who preyed on an elderly woman living alone and made off with family heirlooms worth £15,000 . |
| 30 | ‘ HUMANITY is not impelled on an unstoppable journey to global disaster ’ — Chris Patten , Governor of Hong Kong . |