Example sentences of "on [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remote monitoring service was originally put on trial about a year ago in the retail sector — one of Granada 's biggest markets — and its success prompted the firm to adopt the scheme company-wide . |
| 2 | Although therefore most advocates of a confessional approach have taken on board quite a lot of the criticism against old-style RE understood as indoctrinating , narrow , academic and meaningless to the vast majority of pupils , they have not gone far enough in meeting certain objections . |
| 3 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 4 | On nationalisation around a quarter of households in Britain still lacked a supply of electricity , most of them in urban slums ( which had been uneconomic to connect either because of their short expected life or the inability of the occupants or unwillingness of their landlords to pay for internal wiring ) . |
| 5 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 6 | For patients on diet alone a check on the blood glucose and glycosylated haemoglobin by the general practitioner or diabetic clinic will suffice , with the patient testing the urine for glucose twice weekly avoiding using early-morning specimens . |
| 7 | He 'd seen on television once an exorcism ceremony , a clergyman 's hands on the head of the afflicted person , the clergyman jerking about with spasms , perspiring and dishevelled . |
| 8 | This marks a contrast with HP and other retail credit , where the ‘ life ’ of each loan is on average roughly a year : for example , the £7,281 million extended on new agreements during 1979 ( see p. 23 ) left a total debt outstanding at the end of that year of £7,818 million . |
| 9 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 10 | ‘ They were on shore nearly a week , then Flint came back alone . |
| 11 | Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received . |
| 12 | During that time I held honorary NHS senior registrar status and , to maintain my clinical skills , was on call once a week as a resident registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology and did a full day 's operating list once every two weeks . |