Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are given a budget to spend on the drugs they prescribe for their patients . |
| 2 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 3 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 4 | Well maybe he 's er got a contract to appear on the media . |
| 5 | This would mean that Christ was declaring himself to be a thief , for in Zanaki land thieves generally make it a practice to knock on the door of a hut which they hope to burglarise , and if they hear any movement inside , they dash off into the dark . |
| 6 | It is usual for a crust to form on the surface of the storage tank , the sludge settling to the bottom with the liquid in the middle . |
| 7 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 8 | But more often , he was there in the front row with a chalice or a chasuble to lay on the stage . |
| 9 | Bemac 's workforce has fallen from 215 to 140 in the past year and now the firm has appointed a consultant to advise on the restructuring of the company . |
| 10 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 11 | ( c ) Where a landowner licenses a person to use premises and the owner has a right to enter on the premises to do repairs , the owner retains control and is the occupier . |
| 12 | Indeed , it is totally within it to talk about the fact that the inspector has a right to comment on the quality of school buildings and its impact on education . |
| 13 | In this business , as soon as one meal is complete there is a need to start on the next , and the ACC chefs of the battalion , lunch behind them , had now to prepare for the functions to be held that evening in the Officers ' , and Warrant Officers ' and Sergeants ' Messes for 180 and 350 people respectively . |
| 14 | It is worth pausing here for a moment to reflect on the weight of traditional thinking that McDowell is seeking to shift : |
| 15 | In his view , the minister 's responses to questions asked at the time the legislation was proposed were consistent with the interpretation that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ meant that the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 16 | In my view these repeated assurances are quite inconsistent with the minister having had , or communicated , any intention other than that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only , not a charge on the average cost of the benefit . |
| 17 | Moreover , she had a room to let on the ground floor , with two beds . |
| 18 | When James VI came to manhood and attempted to assert himself over both the Borderers and the disruptive Highland clans , he tended for a while to concentrate on the Highlands rather than the Lowlands . |
| 19 | Gooch has never been a person to dwell on the past . |
| 20 | Not a night to linger on the road . |
| 21 | ‘ The way we sex a grape , or vineyard , in New Zealand , ’ he began , ‘ to ensure that there is the right amount of grape exposed to the sunlight , is to ask a friend to stand on the other side of the vine . |
| 22 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 23 | BRITISH electors are to be given a chance to vote on the EC 's Maastricht Treaty in a rebel referendum run by Tory Euro-sceptics . |
| 24 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 25 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to reflect on the excellent report produced by Professor Glennerster and published by the King 's Fund , which shows that fund-holding practices are more effective and efficient in delivering health care to patients , and that they use their resources much better ? |
| 26 | I shall go into greater detail than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East had a chance to do on the kinds of investment that can be produced , rather than the consumption boom which the Chancellor hopes for . |
| 27 | Sniffing greatness by association , in flocked the A & R men but with little luck as the bemused James turned their backs on record companies , turned down a chance to feature on the cover of NME ( this was rectified later ) and refused to supply photos in a strange but subtle disregard for the traditional career ladder . |
| 28 | Fletcher was also denied a chance to check on the form of Kent pacemen Martin McCague and Alan Igglesden who were both sidelined by injury . |
| 29 | He set up the prize to give aspiring writers a chance to step on the first rung of the literary ladder . |
| 30 | An exhibition is being jointly organised by the county and district council to give the public a chance to comment on the pedestrian priority scheme . |