Example sentences of "[noun sg] on a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accruals method has been in development for over three years , and was triggered by the takeover of Pearl by AMP on a price/ earnings ratio of 9.6 times earnings calculated under an embedded value method . |
| 2 | With a first prize of £250 plus a free place on a weekend writers ' course and a second prize of £150 , plus free place , the competition is open to all . |
| 3 | It was the thought of facing myself in the morning light , followed by a swift but burnished appearance on a TV arts review programme later that day , that had caused me to wake up damp and thudding . |
| 4 | but I said because you bring some guy , you 'll lend me the room on a Sunday afternoons , up and down |
| 5 | Its authors say the motorway has opened the floodgates for development on a scale planners had n't envisaged . |
| 6 | They relate to a crackdown on a shipyard workers ' strike in 1970 in which at least 25 people died . |
| 7 | Only one of the brand-new lifts is working , or so a smudged note scrawled in chalk on a blackboard attempts to tell us : ‘ Due to a defect , certain lift operations suspended . ’ |
| 8 | Piccadilly Circus is the traditional haunt of busloads of Day-Glo-rucksacked European schoolchildren loitering with intent to spend their last tenner on a Sex Pistols T-shirt . |
| 9 | STEVE PUNT shoots the rapids , perfects his topspin and risks lung cancer on a Center Parcs holiday in steamy , subtropical Norfolk |
| 10 | Here he tells Neil Mulholland of the almost intolerable pressures of his work and how he survived a direct hit by a Mark 15 ‘ barrack buster ’ mortar on a border police station . |
| 11 | He has worked for South African companies and first came to this country on a De Beers scholarship to Oxford . |
| 12 | This is true to some extent on a Business Studies course , but learning about commercial activity is only a part of your studies . |