Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not have responded on such a scale otherwise . |
| 2 | In a poem designed on such a scale ( and this evidence of ‘ design ’ on such a scale from the first is astonishing ) it was obviously illegitimate to look , as Edmund Wilson did , for emotional or affective unity in each or any Canto in isolation . |
| 3 | How would the OED text be presented on such a proof : |
| 4 | Of these , some have quarrelled with his view that individuals are determined by practices on the grounds that , as Lukes puts it , any theory built on such a foundation fails to deal with the central problem of the relation between structure ( i.e. the constraints on actors ) and agency ( i.e. the freedom of agents ) . |
| 5 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 6 | The accounts for each subsidiary undertaking shall be prepared on the same basis as those for the company or such adjustments shall be made on consolidation to amend the accounts of each subsidiary undertaking to be equivalent to accounts prepared on such a basis . |
| 7 | The accounts for each subsidiary undertaking shall be prepared on the same basis as those for the company or such adjustments shall be made on consolidation to amend the accounts of each subsidiary undertaking to be equivalent to accounts prepared on such a basis . |
| 8 | Impressive translations have been made on such a basis , though usually by poets . |
| 9 | Finally , the revenue has contended that the proper procedure was for Woolwich to seek to challenge its decision not to pay interest by way of judicial review , although it would of course contend that no order should be made on such a review in the present case . |
| 10 | While the former resists the comparison with an empirical reality the latter is epistemologically founded on such a comparison . |
| 11 | If a left ear advantage , per se , were considered indicative of right-sided speech then up to this proportion of right handers would be classified on such a test as having right hemisphere speech . |
| 12 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 13 | We must conclude that , despite its initial attractions , the proposal that pragmatics be based on a notion of appropriateness should be discarded : language usage is too elastic to allow a pragmatic theory to be based on such a concept . |
| 14 | For Edward , the solution was to hold Aquitaine in full sovereignty ; but the French would concede this only in the face of overwhelming defeat , and no settlement based on such a concession could endure . |
| 15 | The information provided on such a system is predistilled by the producers . |
| 16 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 17 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 18 | Bold , reckless , keen in business , not disinclined for a brush with the pirates that were to be found on many a coast as yet , making money fast , they used to have a general " rendezvous " in the bay for the purposes of trade and dissipation . |
| 19 | For sterling and the other major currencies the ‘ effective exchange rate ’ is a general measure of the exchange value of the domestic currency , and it is calculated on such a basis . |
| 20 | The choice of a system because of particular or peculiar features also needs careful consideration , as this implies that programs developed on such a system will be machine-dependent and not transferable to other systems . |
| 21 | Thus confidential data can be stored on such a disk and the user of this data can physically remove it , even take it home with him if he so desires , thereby ensuring that the information can not be seen by any unauthorised persons This control over sensitive data coupled with the fact that the computer is personal to one user at a time gives the operator a greater sense of confidence in , and control over , the machine he is using . |
| 22 | He was invited to London and all sorts of treats were held out to him as to how he would be entertained on such a visit , trips to the theatre and concerts , a specially organized tour of ‘ Swinging London ’ , Carnaby Street , the King 's Road and so on . |
| 23 | Thus if the Ming Vase is lent to the taxpayer repayable on demand ( so to say ) then if the taxpayer does in fact have the use for the entire year then the type of rental likely to be charged on such a letting in the market ( duly discounted because the trustees can call back the vase on demand ) is likely to comprise the benefit under s740 . |
| 24 | It was sad that this feeling of desire and affection — so alien to him — had been wasted on such a creature . |
| 25 | This had not happened on such a scale before and encouraged MacMillan to stage another biographical work , Isadora , which followed the pattern of his earlier Anastasia . |
| 26 | Nor could it have happened on such a scale had the banks ' powers of credit-creation been constrained by the prudential rules governing national financial structures . |
| 27 | In the current case , J Hedley Walton deceased v Inland Revenue , a challenge is being mounted to the value put on such a tenancy . |
| 28 | A negative judgement passed on such a belief has repercussions on the person , however indirect these may be . |
| 29 | It appears that costs are awarded on the indemnity basis only in exceptional cases , for example ‘ major test cases ’ and ‘ cases in which the paying party 's conduct is considered to have been wholly unmeritorious , oppressive or in contempt of court ’ and the court must expressly direct that costs be awarded on such a basis . |
| 30 | With them , a P5 multiprocessor can be implemented on half a card . |