Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , the hotel name should feature prominently on a large sign , either over the gateway opening or mounted above the wall each side of the entrance and angled to face incoming traffic . |
| 2 | When r 1 and r 2 both increase , then ΔS M becomes smaller ; consequently attempts to mix two high molar mass polymer samples will receive little assistance from this function and must depend increasingly on a favourable ( negative ) heat of mixing embodied in the χ parameter . |
| 3 | The Six eventually reached a compromise in November 1959 , agreeing that the foreign ministers should meet regularly on a biennial basis . |
| 4 | Teachers and schools are of necessity partners in the business of curriculum reform and partners must set forth on an enterprise with an understanding of what it is about , and a certain confidence in the policies they pursue . |
| 5 | You should come here on a Friday or Saturday night . |
| 6 | Contract work should start soon on a facelift scheme at The Horseshoe , involving hard landscaping and the creation of sitting-out areas . |
| 7 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 8 | It 's not necessary to keep *me* happy — everyone is free to say what they like — my only concern is that if a complaint about serious abuse ( or whatever ) went in , those with their finger on the button might look dimly on a footie fan list . |
| 9 | I mean , do the other do these things happen in cycles and tha you know , is it possible that it 'll happen again on a greater scale ? |
| 10 | The sort of obstacles you might come across on a typical walk include crops or overgrown natural vegetation , missing styles or gates and badly drained land . |
| 11 | Nothing could stay outside on a night like this . |
| 12 | Using EBG , one might observe just one species , a sparrow , and deduce that any bird with short wings and a short beak could survive comfortably on a diet of seeds and insects . |
| 13 | Despite its demise , SeaDocs proved that an international , centralized , largely electronic bill of lading system could work reliably on a world wide basis . |
| 14 | CAP had many positive effects , not least in showing that the Six could work together on a very complicated issue . |
| 15 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 16 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 17 | In his study of " Medieval Misogyny " , R. Howard Bloch makes the point that male distrust may depend less on a sense of the utter difference of women than on a sense of how similar women are : gender boundaries can be crossed , and men can become feminized — as Eve was created from Adam . |
| 18 | Like a lot of weekends you 'd leave , you 'd leave the T A centre about eight and then from eight o'clock Friday night too about , well you 'd be working until about three o'clock Sunday afternoon , and you are lucky if you 'd got three or four hours sleep working you do n't notice , you get tired but you do n't feel that bad and it was only like I used to come home on a Sunday crash out about sleep about . |
| 19 | But Peter used to rush home on a on a Sunday for the hotel for for the guests that were coming in Sunday . |
| 20 | That dress would hang better on a broomstick . ’ |
| 21 | But , if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy . |
| 22 | At the time of the Smithsonian Agreement the Group of Ten — the leading central bankers — had announced that discussions would begin promptly on a new long-term monetary reform . |
| 23 | But it had established three important points : first , that there was potential to cut across established Green-Orange divisions in pursuing the interests of Derry ; second , that some educated young Catholics who were uninspired by the Nationalist Party would work enthusiastically on a campaign which challenged traditional sectarian prejudices ; and third , many people came to believe that a section , at least , of Derry Unionists was prepared to sacrifice the interests of the city to those of its party . |
| 24 | Those who were too shy or too inexperienced to pray on those occasions would meet together on a Saturday night to read , to pray and to prepare themselves for the following Sabbath day . |
| 25 | She clung to him and laughed a little through her sobs , and he said : ‘ We shall float away on a tide of your tears if you 're not careful . |
| 26 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 27 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 28 | Or even , when it was apparent that we were not going to get anywhere with the local government , the whole neighbourhood would get together on a Sunday to work putting in the drains or paving the streets . |
| 29 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 30 | They will spend heavily on an acer , and the impulse proves an investment . |