Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A hot pastrami on rye and a bottle of Bud , ’ I told him . |
| 2 | Two huntsmen on trial after a horse is whipped . |
| 3 | When a conductor spilt a cup of boiling water over Mrs Allason 's mother there was neither a first aid box on board nor a phone to call for help . |
| 4 | ‘ A cabin boy on board and a servant on shore , or prisoner in Newgate . |
| 5 | A military transport aircraft , with 12 crew and 120 soldiers on board returning to Bandung after a parade , caught fire and crashed minutes after take-off in a Jakarta suburb , killing all those on board and a guard at a government training centre . |
| 6 | Many others do take it on board and a doctor must always remain an optimist . |
| 7 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 8 | , The congress called for the introduction of a solidarity tax on industry and a supplement on the higher levels of income tax to finance the reconstruction of former East Germany , which it said should be carried out according to " ecological principles " . |
| 9 | Example If you have a paragraph on irony in Conrad 's " Heart of Darkness " , a paragraph on characterisation and a paragraph on narrative closure , you could try to link them together by talking more generally about the abstract relationship between irony , characterisation and narrative closure . |
| 10 | These principles remain important because of the narrow scope and possible inapplicability of ss.61 and 62 of the FSA , which may only be invoked in the context of investment business and on condition that a rule against insider dealing has been adopted by the SIB , an SRO , or an RPB . |
| 11 | One young woman claimed to have wept her way into a degree but once started on work and a career , never used such tricks again . |
| 12 | Not that going on the course takes you out of the field : a lot of time is spent on rehearsal and a lot of time is spent on performance technique . |
| 13 | the game was more of a head on crash than a classic … |
| 14 | She has no winter coat or boots and she eats meat once a week , " and by the end of the month it 'll be beans on toast or a can of soup between us . |
| 15 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 16 | It 's easy but sneaky ; you ferry a dump of fuel , shielding , a nuke and a missile , load up on fuel and a nuke , fly out and up eight clicks , drop the nuke at the foot of the mountains , power-dive back down to base , load the shielding , fuel to the max with just one missile aboard ( meanwhile the nuke explodes , shaking the ground ; you do n't want to be fuelling at this point ) , then you climb like fuck , get to ceiling and then hover in the air above the rising mushroom cloud ! |
| 17 | Despite his obscure origins Warltire established himself as a fashionable itinerant lecturer on chemistry and a supplier of laboratory chemicals . |
| 18 | There was the clash of sword on sabre and a scream that was abruptly silenced . |
| 19 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 20 | The DBMS allocates space on disk and a record is allocated to a particular slot via a randomising ( or hashing ) algorithm which is designed to use the allocated space efficiently . |
| 21 | This was no easy task , night raids are difficult to convey on canvas and a raid so radically different from all others presented many problems . |
| 22 | Under present laws , police do not have the power to stop and search on suspicion that a person may be carrying an offensive weapon since knives are not legally defined as such . |
| 23 | ( In their 1988 survey , Mintel noted that ‘ the proportion of consumer expenditure represented by alcohol consumption has fallen steadily , whilst at the same time that spent on leisure as a whole has increased ’ ( Hunt , p42 ) . ) |
| 24 | There was a distinction between simply a reflection on development and a feeding of insights gained from individual development experience into a wider shared theological reflection on development . |
| 25 | The emphasis is on contact and a chance to talk : non-formal activities centring on children , domestic skills and basic literacy . |
| 26 | But it is still against the spirit of the Act to impose restrictions on contact where a child is accommodated by a local authority . |
| 27 | Post office staff have gone on strike after a technician was suspended for refusing to use machinery blacked by his union . |
| 28 | They went on strike after a constable was killed by security forces . |
| 29 | Similarly , with a clearly enunciated history curriculum other departments in the school can see how they can be served on occasion or a basis can be laid in history which they can reinforce . |
| 30 | And er there 'll be a number of questions on stress and a number of questions on leadership . |