Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparing particular sections or blocks of work for classes or groups of pupils which include visually handicapped children it can be useful to code in a mark when drafting the programme to indicate the need for a piece of specific equipment to be available , and check this quickly on a daily basis ( for example , closed circuit television tape recorder ; overhead projector ) . |
| 2 | The traditional Diamond fighter kite as flown all over Eastern nations is remarkably controllable even on a single line , though its flight path is limited to a narrow sector of the downwind area . |
| 3 | A 1926 survey showed 13,446 passengers arriving at Charing Cross Station between 7 and 10 a.m. on a typical day . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ began Enfield , ‘ I was coming home about three o'clock on a black winter morning , when suddenly I saw two people . |
| 5 | Soft down on a young chin , imperceptible |
| 6 | In this case , it is necessary to set up a PAYE scheme with the Inland Revenue , to deduct tax and National Insurance , and to pay these over on a regular monthly basis . |
| 7 | Right so you rent that out on a weekly basis ? |
| 8 | In Britain , aside from the Ministry of Defence , which is the largest purchaser in central government , the most significant purchasers are as follows : the Department of Transport , spending about £1 billion a year ; Her Majesty 's Stationary Office , which spends about £250 million a year ; the Property Services Agency , servicing public buildings and other property , spends about £1.8 billion a year ; the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency , responsible for all central government information technology advice , organizes everything from multi-million pound computer systems to peripheral services , such as micro-computers , service and maintainance ; the National Health Service spends nearly £3.5 billion annually on a wide range of supplies and services through the NHS authorities ; and , finally , local authorities buy a very wide range of goods and services . |
| 9 | The schema is evident also on a formal level in the breakdown of traditional narrative techniques . |
| 10 | This window is almost opulently luminous even on a dull day . |
| 11 | It was dark when I left the farm : about five o'clock on a late December day , the light gone early and the stars beginning to show In a frosty sky . |
| 12 | GARY NUMAN All the hits are made available again on a live compilation , The Skin Mechanic . |
| 13 | THOUSANDS of tins of baked beans rolled off a lorry and split open yesterday on a busy road in Blyford , Suffolk . |
| 14 | It 's 7.00 a.m. on a cold dark morning in Stroud , but 19 year old Jason Scrivens is more than happy to be getting ready for work . |
| 15 | Augusta was not at her best yesterday on a drab , grey day . |
| 16 | Consistency is important for summative purposes , since a statement of what a pupil can do is misleading if true only on a single occasion and in a single context * . |
| 17 | At seven o'clock on a dark and dreary February morning without any warning , several cars arrived simultaneously at six homes in South Ronaldsay , the most southerly of the seventy Orkney islands , and also at a caravan home in Kirkwall . |
| 18 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 19 | How an I going to take any wickets at all if I can not float my deceptively slow left-armers out of the darkness of the trees at seven o'clock on a late September evening ? |
| 20 | At seven o'clock on a chilly Saturday evening in November , the shroud of darkness enveloping it was a kindness as far as Captain Roddy Simcox was concerned . |
| 21 | Then it is a relatively simple matter to descend and land in the field , though it can be fun when the only thing visible in the black outside the cockpit is the light of the marshaller 's torch ( just try judging how far away a solitary light is when you are next out on a moonless night ) . |