Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
| 2 | It seems that they can be market counterparties even if the firm acts only as their agent and , indeed , even if the firm is acting for them on a discretionary basis . |
| 3 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 4 | You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads . |
| 5 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |
| 6 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
| 7 | Of importance here is the fact that 14 interviewees ( 23 per cent ) were regular users of another opioid , principally Diconal , eight of them on a daily basis . |
| 8 | Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period . |
| 9 | I bring each of you on a guided tour of my past and you each remain tight-lipped . |
| 10 | Brunskill , winner of the Shildon Rail Trail race on Sunday , also had Stansmore in her sights from the start and burst past her on a downhill section after two miles to win by a comfortable 15 seconds . |
| 11 | You know so when you 're confirmed , it wo n't be , okay I 'm on the boat now , it will be making use of those gifts , whatever they may be , and they 'll be uniquely your own in each one , the mix 'll be uni uniquely you know , to the person , you 'll have to make use of it on a daily basis , not just simply , okay I 'm on the boat . |
| 12 | Rank on rank they stretched to the horizon , their reflections shimmering towards us on a blue mirror . |
| 13 | ‘ While I was about it , I put a fiver for you on a nice little filly called General Motors . ’ |
| 14 | Each colourful Flower Fairy is beautifully portrayed for you on a high quality porcelain plate and expertly finished with a rim of 22-carat gold . |
| 15 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 16 | CHARLES and Di put their marriage problems behind them on a 10-day Greek island cruise , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 17 | Rufus and Mary lay quite near him on a candlewick bedspread Rufus had found in one of the spare bedrooms . |
| 18 | All three were found guilty as charged , save that the defendant had pleaded guilty to count 4 after a ruling against him on a legal submission . |
| 19 | As we chatted and laughed , I noticed a man sitting just behind us on a small staircase that led to another part of the restaurant ; he was holding an umbrella . |
| 20 | So what you do is you open negotiations with them on a new lease . |
| 21 | Asked if they would lose respect for a woman who was prepared to sleep with them on a first date , 24% neither agree nor disagree ; 18% strongly disagree ; 17% tend to disagree ; 16% tend to agree ; 15% strongly agree and 10% do n't know . |
| 22 | As the number of states contractually linked to the Soviet Union in this manner increased , it became apparent that Moscow hoped to construct a network of loose understandings on military security with Third World states and establish Soviet relations with them on a firmer institutional basis . |
| 23 | The Indo-Chinese ministers warned the ASEAN states that they would do well to accept the reality of Indo-China and offered to sign non-aggression treaties with them on a bilateral basis . |
| 24 | the point about membership is that you ought to be able to comment on those suggestions of change and get involved with them on a broad basis . |
| 25 | It may be distinguished from this kind of guidance from another American source : ‘ Separate any group of offending youths , dealing with them on a one-to-one … basis ’ ( Grotophorst , 1979 , pp.349–50 ) . |
| 26 | I do nt know why they do nt just leave an outside broadcast team with them on a permanent basis . |
| 27 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
| 28 | It was like taking Warren Beatty and Sean Penn with you on a hot date . |
| 29 | Take any hint the court drops : if the presiding judge indicates that as at present advised the court is with you on a particular matter , leave it alone — do not insist upon reading out your argument merely because you have come prepared upon it . |
| 30 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |