Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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1 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
2 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
3 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
4 | All next day she called and she hunted , but no trace of her baby could she discover , not so much as a footprint on the sand . |
5 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
6 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
7 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
8 | I will bring you a cloak , it is not much , but warmer and more comfortable than a night on the cliff tops ! ’ |
9 | The big wooden table had been scrubbed as white as a bone on the seashore . |
10 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
11 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
12 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
13 | It would have been far better if a decision on that matter had been taken in Wales . |
14 | I am not sure whether a statement on yesterday 's meeting would be appropriate , but I shall draw the hon. Gentleman 's request to my right hon. Friend 's attention . |
15 | He had been a cheerful fellow in those days and life was as inconsequential as a laugh on the wind or the carelessly squandered words of a song . |
16 | Levy 's voice is as rough as a shag on the floor of a sandpaper factory , the lyric is utterly ridiculous , describing the popularity and stylishness of a certain fashionable item , and the soprano sax added to that tender little guitar lick from the Arrested Development record just upsets your soul . |
17 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
18 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
19 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
20 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
21 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
22 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
23 | That makes the investment look like little more than a punt on First Fidelity 's shares — a profitable punt , perhaps , but a punt nonetheless . |
24 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
25 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
26 | You could be described as being no more than a brain on wheels or a brain stuck in a chair . |
27 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
28 | Such abuses were seldom reported , thorough investigations were rarely held , and " the few perpetrators disciplined or prosecuted usually get little more than a slap on the wrist and most know they can get away with it unchallenged " . |
29 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
30 | The men are too tired , the women too remote from the issues of the day , to offer more than a commentary on the quiche or a flirtatious skirmish . |