Example sentences of "[noun sg] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it difficult for traders to recognize arbitrage possibilities involving a future on a geometric index when the future is underpriced , and may account for the replacement of the geometric VLCI future by its arithmetic equivalent . |
| 2 | It is found , however , on some figures in an Amazonomachy and a Centauromachy on a big volute-krater ( fig. 109 ) by a less talented companion of the Niobid Painter known as the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs , in whose work too it is abnormal . |
| 3 | However their peace is short-lived when they meet the charming Nick Buckley , the last of a long line of Buckleys inhabiting ‘ End House ’ , which is poised in isolation on a rocky point visible from the hotel . |
| 4 | Remuneration packages may combine foreign service premia and hardship allowances or treat the payment of foreign service premia on a similar basis to that of hardship allowances , that is , the former are increased according to the environment in which the expatriate is asked to work . |
| 5 | Approved Training Practices are monitored by the Association on a five-year cycle and are required to comply with guidelines designed to ensure the high standards of certified accountants in public practice and maintain the flexibility of the ACCA qualification . |
| 6 | Oakeshott 's rejection of any attempts to found civil association on a legitimizing principle is a critical aspect of his theory . |
| 7 | " What we could do with is a bit of success , " said a member of the tenants ' association on a big Coventry estate . |
| 8 | The result of Mr Kenneth Baker 's current thinking on a national curriculum , on a new negotiating structure for teachers ' pay and conditions ind on increasing the independence ind financial responsibility of individual schools would be to make local education authorities largely redundant . |
| 9 | The man in the notional training sequence I described ‘ led ’ his horse on an invisible bond as strong as a rope . |
| 10 | Once Ratcliffe was in the side on a regular basis , he cemented a partnership with Andy Moles . |
| 11 | In Isfield , Sir John Shurley and his two wives lie side by side on a mighty tomb of alabaster with their children carved kneeling around the base . |
| 12 | For instance , they gave us just two power lines per side on a huge concert stage , and just one spotlight , and that was all the lights they gave us , and they gave us half the PA . |
| 13 | Annie and Sheila perched side by side on a high window-sill , their feet resting on a table on which three other women sat . |
| 14 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 15 | We ran the experiment in 12 sessions of eight subjects each ; eight of the sessions involved the eight groups , the remaining four sessions the subjects doing the experiment on an individual basis . |
| 16 | In addition , the groups had a group discussion ( organized by the team leader ) between the first and second repetitions , though the subjects actually performed the experiment on an individual basis on each repetition . |
| 17 | ‘ I should have rung the police and reported a horse on the loose on a public highway in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 18 | The Flow Country of Caithness and East Sutherland , a rare wetland habitat which has already been diminished by conifer afforestation , is facing the threat of peat extraction on an industrial scale . |
| 19 | He had moored Water Gypsy on a pretty stretch of river which , he told her , linked two canals . |
| 20 | This often contains the seeds of grass and other plants which before long sprout , like mustard and cress on a damp flannel . |
| 21 | Bernard had been farming the manor on a 21-year lease since at least 1536 , and paying £9. 10s. a year for it . |
| 22 | Existing structure plan in short is erm set out in such a way that it pos positively discourages the accommodation of inward investment on a large scale . |
| 23 | One argument is indisputable : that unless there is investment on an enormous scale on the improvement of provision , the reality of day-care experiences for unknown but substantial numbers of young children whose parents find it necessary or choose to work , is likely to remain a cause of concern . |
| 24 | In addition , a joint consultation exercise with the Ethics Committee of the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency on a revised insolvency statement is well under way . |
| 25 | A MOTORCYCLIST on a stolen bike was stopped by police for not wearing a crash helmet , Colwyn Bay magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 26 | POLICE investigating an attempted murder bid on a leading Shankill Road loyalist have appealed for information from anyone who witnessed the attack . |
| 27 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |
| 28 | It sets one hesitating between general admiration and the attempt to give point to frontality or some such term : anything to obtain leverage on a narrative mode which sweeps up event and idea , fictional past and stream-ofconsciousness present , into a single impulse of this immediacy and power . |
| 29 | He ground the sugar into a powder , mixed it with water and with his daily handful of flour , adding a little curry powder to give it a spicy taste : then he grilled the result on a flat stone beside the fire . |
| 30 | In Chapter 6 we shall find that it is a matter of perplexity where along the chain the fixity sets in which determines a particular result on a particular occasion . |