Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
| 2 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
| 3 | The boxcar , one of ten , had been parked in the marshalling-yards at Tobolsk for nearly twenty-four hours when the railway workers had come along to feed the sheep and hitch the cars on to a new engine . |
| 4 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 5 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 6 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 7 | If he had let go , he would have fallen about thirty feet on to a narrow ledge , where boxes had been placed to break his fall . |
| 8 | Although the Germans had used a warning radar since before 1939 , the Bruneval station included a new Würzburg set with its 20-foot ( 6m ) dish aerial able to range guns and direct planes on to a single aircraft . |
| 9 | Put the potato mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle and pipe 6 nests on to a greased baking sheet . |
| 10 | He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club . |
| 11 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 12 | The selling firm must be aware of the cultural variations in social organisation when targeting sales efforts on to a particular social segment of the population . |
| 13 | Please complete this coupon or carefully copy all the details on to a plain sheet of paper and return to : Paw-o-Vision Song Contest |
| 14 | Those with warm indoor quarters sought out their warmest nooks , while others , like the eagles , did their best to find refuge in their open shelters looking out from the frozen draughty shadows on to a bitter world . |
| 15 | My lodgings were in the comfortable Kirkapol Guest House which fronts on to a marvellous tempting beach . |
| 16 | Before that stage , the program may also have provided instructions to encourage you to copy files on to a blank disc in drive A : , to ‘ please insert this in another machine ’ and type A:Share . |
| 17 | From the description of the carpenter ( 3221 – 32 ) the narrative moves on to a glorious and often-analysed effictio , an external portrait such as was conventional in introducing ladies in romance literature , of the beautiful and sensuous young wife , Alison . |
| 18 | Your physical response to her moves on to a different plane . |
| 19 | Staff Sergeant McRobb supervising the loading of vehicles on to a Royal Corps of Transport craft at the military Port of Marchwood near Southampton |
| 20 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 21 | She had to leave the floor , they had to walk , that 's right , they had to walk on the concrete floor without tiles on for a long time |
| 22 | She sewed buttons on to a white shirt she 'd made . |