Example sentences of "on a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 2 | Unlike my father who was told to sit on a bean bag my cardiologist said , " Exercise , build up your strength , " and so I started jogging and disliked it intensely and stopped jogging . |
| 3 | WORK is soon to start on a £5.2m scheme which will prevent raw sewage being pumped on to a Merseyside beach . |
| 4 | She made Dinah go and unlace herself , put on a cotton wrapper she had lately bought , and stay near her bed till the pains came , but meantime to walk up and down . |
| 5 | IF YOU WERE MAROONED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHICH MAKE-UP AND HAIR ITEM WOULD YOU BE LOST WITHOUT ? : |
| 6 | Is not it madness to be spending billions of pounds on a missile system which does not deter and may not work — and when we have no one at whom to point it ? |
| 7 | How can the Prime Minister possibly justify spending £23,000 million in capital and maintenance on a missile system which does not work properly , which does not deter , which is not independent and against whom there is now no one to target it ? |
| 8 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 9 | Sometimes on a winter afternoon it would start coming in and get so black you could n't see . |
| 10 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 11 | He has embarked on a drawing/painting course which seems to be about as full and hectic as yours , but then both your chosen activities are a mystery to me . |
| 12 | ‘ I would not , ’ the Lieutenant said with cold courtesy , ‘ wish to feast on a Battle Brother who was not of my Chapter . ’ |
| 13 | By assessing each post individually , the peculiar responsibilities of the post will be identified and the nurse placed on a pay scale which recognises her experience and expertise . |
| 14 | More to the point , you fail to mention the fact that the Government has offered talks on a pay structure which would ensure that those ambulance workers with a high skill level , who tend to be those who deal with the worst accidents , are paid more to reflect their training . |
| 15 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 16 | For failing to report you 'll be fined twenty pounds and your licence will be endorsed and for failing afford precedence on the pedestrian on a zebra crossing you 'll be fined ten pounds . |
| 17 | Most public sector officials will be paid on a salary scale which has a number of incremental points on it and each year the official will advance a small step towards the top of the scale . |
| 18 | At an IOWME ( International Organisation of Women and Mathematics Education ) discussion group in 1986 ( see Isaacson , Rogers and Dekker , 1986 ) , Gila Hanna reported on a gender analysis she and Erika Kuendiger had carried out on data from the Second International Mathematics Study ( SIMS ) . |
| 19 | If , for instance , the animal became imprinted on a tennis ball it might subsequently attempt to mate with other tennis balls ! |
| 20 | Three months after the executions , he wrote his vignette , probably basing it on a newspaper account he read in the Paris edition of the New York Tribune ( Baker 1969 : 108 ; Reynolds 1972 : 82 ) . |
| 21 | It requires riverside sites vacated by traditional shipbuilding and port functions and is absolutely dependent on a work force which got its initial training in ship-building and -repair . |
| 22 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme will restructure advanced courses on a unit model which will offer similar articulation and client choice as that provided by the National Certificate modular system . |
| 23 | On a test piece you can work out a lace pattern in blocks or strips — this is especially simple with the push button method of needle selection — then fit a crossover into the plain stocking stitch sections . |
| 24 | The superiority of this latter group on a test task which involved choice between A and B could well depend on their having learned different labels ( and on the control group having learned the same label ) for these stimuli . |
| 25 | While I munched on a choccie biccie I noticed loads of free stickers lying around — each design had a different concept . |
| 26 | However , Dworkin 's argument depends on a master principle which is seen as ‘ uncontroversial ’ , and whether Dignan 's reformulation would be acceptable may be a matter of debate . |
| 27 | PROTOKOL comes in the form of a ROM chip and operates with a number of programs on a master disk which also contains datafiles . |
| 28 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 29 | Thus , there is no obligation on a building society itself to provide the valuation . |
| 30 | A land-based board mounted on a turntable device which is used to teach the basics before going on to the water . |