Example sentences of "[adj] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want a patch-through on a secure line to Vice-President Odell , ’ he said , ‘ and I want it now . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody lived like this on a hired hand 's hourly wage . |
| 3 | Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence . |
| 4 | Some companies employ people to do this on a full-time basis . |
| 5 | The third rhyme on fete isolates the image of the five wounds and modulates into an extended description of this on a new rhyme . |
| 6 | James Heaton of Widnes tried this on a small scale at Langley Mill , Nottinghamshire , but the cost proved too high . |
| 7 | Finding helpers willing to act as car park attendants may be difficult if you intend to do this on a regular basis . |
| 8 | It remains AEA 's intention to achieve this on a voluntary basis to the greatest extent possible . |
| 9 | Erm you can , something like this on a red mount or something , you can imagine it would be absolutely hopeless . |
| 10 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 11 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 12 | So I started doing this on a sexual basis . |
| 13 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 14 | The British yacht Sunbeam arrived in 1876 on a round-the-world voyage with its owner Thomas Brassey MP , his wife , children , guests and thirty-two crew members . |
| 15 | Some foreign children are residential on a permanent basis . |
| 16 | Your RR already has a US V8 engine , a Buick As you are only allowed to increase the power by 20% this can easily be achieved by changing the camshaft , carburettors ( for a four barrelled Holley and Offenhouser manifold as fuel costs are not a problem ! ) and fitting tubular extractor manifolds to the exhaust Large power increases are not sensible on a seventeen year old vehicle without major overhaul , steering , suspension etc |
| 17 | ‘ It would be hardly sensible on a quiet day , but you know how they run here . ’ |
| 18 | In the 138-member Chamber of Citizens ( 108 seats for Serbian representatives , half of them elected on a majority system by constituencies and half on a proportional system by party lists , plus 30 for Montenegrin representatives , six by constituency and 24 proportionally ) the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) gained 73 seats ; Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23 ; Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) 33 ; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia two ; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Magyars ( DZVM ) two ; independents three ; two seats for Serbia went to a second round of voting , held on June 14 ( together with two second-round polls for the republican assembly ) . |
| 19 | But there are other people also entertaining on a grand scale at the regatta , as part of the corporate hospitality that 's laid on every year . |
| 20 | That proposal is also the preferred option of Israel 's Likud coalition government — as Levy , the Israeli foreign minister , made clear on a recent visit to Washington . |
| 21 | If the reach is fairly broad the fleet often steers a very curved course to the next mark , so it is sometimes worth deliberately keeping well clear on a low course . |
| 22 | Sure , ‘ Something So Good ’ and ‘ Harbour Force ’ are thoroughly adequate on a headnodding level , vaguely emotional and politely insistent the both of them . |
| 23 | They were high on a tumbling cliff , not the lonely strand of Rory 's dream , but they wanted to make love . |
| 24 | Firstly , Seefeld is just 14 miles from fashionable Innsbruck and is set high on a sunny plateau . |
| 25 | Murren perches high on a sunny shelf in the Lauterbrunnen Valley , surrounded by all the glorious beauty of peaks and glaciers . |
| 26 | For example , in a tree nine thousand miles away from Masklin , high on a cloudy mountainside , was a plant that looked like one large flower . |
| 27 | Dogs are high on a wild leopard 's list of favourite foods . |
| 28 | Her mother and the driver escorted her to a complex of low concrete buildings in a parched garden high on a nearby hill . |
| 29 | But I live in fear of calling out the rescue team for a solitary figure glimpsed high on a darkening summit , only to find it 's Hamish McInnes nipping back up to fetch a dropped mitten . |
| 30 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |