Example sentences of "on a [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradox 4 will run on a 286 with a least 2Mb of memory ; even with all the tutorial stuff it occupies less than 4.5Mb of hard disk space . |
| 2 | He slapped on a little of a new musk aftershave that was supposed to make him irresistible — not too much , he hated obviousness in men . |
| 3 | The next afternoon found Kate lying on a lounger beside a pool in the Algarve . |
| 4 | She saw Harry stretch out on a lounger in the fragrant shade at the far end of the terrace and toss the last four inches of his Romeo y Julieta into the hedge . |
| 5 | A girl was sunbathing on a lounger in the courtyard outside Culley 's window . |
| 6 | Either way , if it 's true , then we will lose close on a million on the overall deal . |
| 7 | One goes to elect a member of parliament on a first past the post , single member constituency basis . |
| 8 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 9 | There are two large swimming pools landscaped within the grounds , where you can laze on a sunbed for an afternoon siesta . |
| 10 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 11 | So in our search for innovation we decided , without much conviction , to concentrate on a few of the rapidly developing fields , that is on the current fashions such as biotechnology , new materials , lasers and the like , but the emphasis was to be on supporting the research whose main objective was to improve understanding in these fields rather than on products . |
| 12 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |
| 13 | BOURSAULT : Belemnite chalk on a few of the very lowest slopes , mainly sand , sandstone , clay and lignites mixed with various calcareous deposits . |
| 14 | V. GENT enlightens us on a few of the problems he 's had to deal with over the counter . |
| 15 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 16 | Sergeant Graham Ellery was pictured on a sunlounger at the villa in France where Fergie canoodled with Texan boyfriend John Bryan . |
| 17 | The defendant , who paid £10 per deal , said that the amphetamine put him on a high for an hour and that he used to escape pressures and worries . |
| 18 | I 'm going on a fast for a few days because everything you eat 's bad for you . ’ |
| 19 | The burial customs of the Parsi sect involve dead bodies being exposed on a grating at the top of a Tower of Silence . |
| 20 | Development on a third of the barrier coast has been controlled by law since 1982 ; no federal flood insurance is available for building on controlled beaches . |
| 21 | Usually too , the European took the best land as in Algeria , for example , where 20,000 European farms were established on a third of the cultivable land ( about 2.5m. ha. ) while some 630,000 Algerian peasants were confined to 5m. ha . |
| 22 | were written in this way , because erm there was a move from a certain part of the organization to exclude the Q Ss from elements of work on an unreasonable to an unreasonable extent . |