Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were on about , talking about it last night were n't they ? , they , back in the fifties they were on eight pound a week |
| 2 | When subjects had to concurrently hold in memory two or four nouns on each trial a superiority of the RVF emerged . |
| 3 | A cloistered walkway bordered the courtyard on three sides , arches supported by white pillars , on each pillar a lamp . |
| 4 | On that date a submission was made on behalf of the respondent to Judge Holden that the proceedings should be stayed on the grounds of delay and the ‘ resultant prejudice to the defendant . ’ |
| 5 | On that day a plane left Baghdad for London with 133 people on board , mainly women and children . |
| 6 | Saint David is the patron ( or special ) saint of Wales and on that day a leek or a daffodil is worn by many Welsh people in his honour . |
| 7 | On that day a delegation of mayors from the Barétous , on the French side , comes up and hands over three white heifers to their counterparts from the Roncal , the valley on the Spanish side ; in return they get money . |
| 8 | There on that table a box of paints and drawing pad ; by the bed another box , of jewels , pearls and faceted glass . |
| 9 | In 860 , for instance , when Charles needed cash to hire a Viking warband , he taxed not only churches and peasants but also " traders , even very small-scale ones : their houses and all their stock were valued and on that basis a rate was assessed and required " . |
| 10 | ‘ On another occasion a taxi driver wanted $5 to drive me to my hotel … which we could both see quite clearly a few hundred yards away ! ’ |
| 11 | On another occasion a mob smashed the windows of the Guildhall whilst the Whig common council was in session . |
| 12 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 13 | On another occasion a client rang in to say that he had left an extremely expensive bottle of perfume on the plane . |
| 14 | I was once offered a John Wesley letter which had the slight blemish of being written on paper watermarked some thirty years after the evangelist died , and on another occasion a letter from a supposed Trafalgar seaman , mentioning officers and members of the crew who were not on the muster roll of the ship concerned . |
| 15 | Her mother gave in to this demand because otherwise Kim had bad tantrums during which she had once broken a glass dividing door and on another occasion a dining chair . |
| 16 | On the other side of the stone circle , against the wall , a wide bench for sleeping was covered with a thin woollen blanket , and high up on another wall a shelf had been fashioned , hand-made and crooked , but functional nevertheless , and holding an assortment of objects and jars that drew Isabel at once . |
| 17 | On British Rail a lot . |
| 18 | Devismes was challenged on this terminology a week later by a reader signed ‘ G … ‘ , who makes it clear that batteur de mesure now meant a mechanical beater , not a true musical director such as Rey : |
| 19 | the old Anti-Slavery Society committee [ was not prompted ] to make a vigorous opposition to the grant of Twenty Millions and one parliamentary leader T. F. Buxton felt so much doubt upon the propriety of turning the attention of the country prominently to it that there was on this subject a want of cordial cooperation with those who wished to make use of it to its full extent . |
| 20 | In 1513 there was opposition to a tax imposition in Yorkshire — indeed on this occasion a remission of assessment was granted on grounds of poverty , so the government seems to have been prepared to meet genuine grievances . |
| 21 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
| 22 | It was a complete caricature of Schleiermacher when Hegel remarked that on this account a dog must be more religious than his master , because even more completely dependent . |
| 23 | On this point a Mareva injunction can be distinguished from an Anton Piller order ; it was the fact that the latter is immediately and irreversibly executed as soon as it is served which led the court in Allertext Inc . |
| 24 | One can actually see on this trace a period here where there was no airflow , so in this particular period the subject would not be breathing . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 26 | She looked at the reflection of Fergus again , as he pulled the wheel ; the car tunnelled into the forest , the wall of trees on either side a blur , their greenness more remembered than seen . |
| 27 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 28 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 29 | But since The Cocktail Party is on one level a comedy , this mundane life is delineated as a form of charade — one which only the enlightened , the " guardians " , know how to control . |
| 30 | It is on one level a time of transition between one set of viewpoints , and the gradual emergence of another , if you like , the conscious pantisocracy and the unconscious ‘ shapes and thoughts ’ , but it is a moment at which the two not only meet , as the river Alph becomes a fountain , but merge and seem not only to contradict but support one another . |