Example sentences of "[coord] on a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fundamental alternatives are to advertise in bursts of , perhaps , three weeks at a time , or on a more spread-out , ‘ drip ’ basis . |
| 2 | The answer is probably yes ; we did n't have any problems on a fast 8Mb 486 or on a more modest 386SX with 4Mb of RAM . |
| 3 | A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis . |
| 4 | Even better , and on a completely different level , is ‘ Gone ’ , which is this record 's masterpiece . |
| 5 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 6 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 7 | She was impeccably dressed , and on a stiflingly hot day still managed to look coolly coiffured , every hair in place , her make-up none the worse for the heat . |
| 8 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 9 | The latter may prove difficult to achieve until good data is available both on outcome and on a more subtle classification of initial severity of the case . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 11 | And on a more mundane level , they may well want the tourists back , before martial law , Lhasa was becoming a sought-after destination for western travellers and for their dollars . |
| 12 | And on a more down-to-earth level , its foraging habits have helped shape and preserve many of Africa 's habitats , from the semi-desert of Namibia to the rainforests of the Cameroon . |
| 13 | Sainsbury 's light and fruity Beaujolais , £3.49 is just right , and on a very warm evening it could be served cool . |
| 14 | In this they were followed on a much smaller scale by unit trusts and on a very small scale by investment trusts . |
| 15 | If you can get them , that is : a form of black-marketeering ensures that the dollar can buy privilege even here , but on a bitterly cold Sunday morning in April , it was mostly Russian families who filled the theatre for an 11.30 am start to Khovanshchina . |
| 16 | It was one of those debates when nobody else turns up , but on a more serious note I 'm concerned that the th th the problems and we 've had them here in North Yorkshire caused by terrorism in Northern Ireland and whilst debating Northern Ireland erm there were very few . |
| 17 | But on a more general level we need to realise that the church is not down and out because she is on the privatised and peripheral margins of society . |
| 18 | But on a more concrete level the Demoiselles owes most to Picasso 's use of ‘ primitive ’ sources . |
| 19 | We have realised these in our budgets by a reduced turnover , but on a more positive note we have also planned a slight increase in our capital replacement spend to retain the capabilities of our fleet of plant and vehicles to be able to take account of any upturn in the overall UK market which could well show through towards the end of the year . |
| 20 | But on a more fundamental level the fiasco illustrates the futility of trying to solve political decisions by mathematical models . |
| 21 | But on a more elevated theoretical level , it is also true that the masculine/feminine dichotomy has entered very deeply into the system of linguistic analysis we call grammar . |
| 22 | Bonus shares will also be available for non-customers , but on a less favourable basis of one for 20 up to a maximum investment of £7,500 . |
| 23 | Besides the capital 's parade , other cities in Malaysia had parades too but on a less grand scale . |
| 24 | In its purest form , the doctrine advocated a return to subsistence economy but on a less individualistic and more communal basis . |
| 25 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 26 | The report concluded that the passing of information to paramilitaries did take place , but on a very limited scale , and it recommended procedural and technical improvements . |
| 27 | He had always been confident that Fibres would survive even during its darkest days : ‘ Parts of our business are volatile and people are used to reacting quickly and decisively — that is what we had to do but on a very big scale and at very considerable cost . ’ |