Example sentences of "on a [noun] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently , Ernest Melling ( now the Federation 's secretary ) stood for Blackburn 's staunchly Labour Trinity ward on a pensioner 's independent ticket . |
| 2 | That 's why the Daily Mirror has teamed up with Thorpe Park to offer great savings on a day 's super safari into fun . |
| 3 | In many cases the granting of such credits has depended on a country 's general creditworthiness . |
| 4 | Most development programmes are too heavy on capital investment and judge results only by the effect on a country 's gross national product , obscuring the real reasons for lack of growth . |
| 5 | On top of this disincentive a second system of rougher targets and penalties was introduced , based on a council 's previous spending . |
| 6 | Eventually in 1858 he persuaded the Morning Advertiser and other newspapers to take his service on a fortnight 's free trial . |
| 7 | ‘ If information on a person 's political allegiance gained from ballot papers fell into the hands of unscrupulous individuals such as paramilitaries , then that person 's life could be at risk . ’ |
| 8 | The idea of refusing to pay tax , based on a person 's moral opposition to the purpose for which it is raised is not a new one . |
| 9 | A going concern qualification on a company 's financial statements is , in effect , an assertion made at a point in time about the distribution of future cash flows associated with the bundle of assets that comprise that company . |
| 10 | The roots of such personal antipathies are notoriously difficult to disentangle , but their effect on a school 's professional climate can be deeply damaging . |
| 11 | Il-Quccija is an old Maltese custom — a party on a child 's first birthday . ’ |
| 12 | Not entirely ; to begin with we might take a pragmatic line in the light of new knowledge about the long-term effects of such treatment on a child 's subsequent development . |
| 13 | It is interesting and important to note that , even when Piaget 's views on a child 's conceptual development are still accepted , the danger of omitting theology from the young child 's RE is becoming more widely appreciated . |
| 14 | These badges were handed out only on a nurse 's last day in the hospital , after she had taken State and Hospital Finals and accumulated a sheaf of satisfactory ward reports . |
| 15 | In practice , the number of members denied reselection was small ( only seven by the time the 1983 general election was called ) , but the issue served to highlight the more overt emphasis placed by Labour activists on a candidate 's political stance than was the case on the Conservative side . |
| 16 | As the TGAT Report said : ‘ it should be recognised that to record a low level of performance for this reason [ English as a second language ( E2L ) ] would be no reflection on a pupil 's general ability but merely an indication that the pupil needed special help in English language skills . ’ |
| 17 | But schools now inevitably become more tense about a failing teacher or a teacher with personal problems or problems of health who may not be able to concentrate on a pupil 's assessable skills . |
| 18 | All the candidates agreed that the issue was an extremely complex one and that ultimately , within limits , policy had to be based on a woman 's right to choose . |
| 19 | ‘ Until four years ago , doctors had to state the type of operation on a woman 's work-leave papers . |
| 20 | The Englishman walked to the white stone , the patriarch 's seat , and sat on a guide 's wooden chair next to it . |
| 21 | A trust can be charged on a brother 's posthumous child : for intention alone is relevant in trusts , and the opinion of Gallus prevailed that the posthumous children of others can also be our own intestate heirs . |
| 22 | In the 1980s such asset-liability reviews are assisted by computerised accountancy systems which can present information on a bank 's total exposure by country or customer on a daily basis . |
| 23 | What is the highest score to be made on a side 's second innings ? |
| 24 | ENERGY ORCHARD , Belfast purveyors of Celtic rock , head out on a Murphy 's Irish Stout sponsored tour visiting . |
| 25 | These are the shellfish of legend , capable of snapping shut on a diver 's unwary foot , holding on until his air runs out . |
| 26 | A thousand years of winter grazing on a city 's historic common land could be set to end . |
| 27 | Unlike the previous exhibitions in the series , this is the first devoted not to a royal court 's culture but to a culture based on a city 's commercial strength . |
| 28 | And the film released earlier this year , The Hand That Rocks The Cradle , about a nanny who infiltrates a family threatening to harm the couple 's child , preys on a mother 's worst fear . |
| 29 | At a gallop , the amount of strain on a horse 's fore tendon is very near to its maximum capacity and any further loading leads to progressive damage to the tendon fibres resulting in extreme cases of tendon rupture . |
| 30 | There 's about as much real passion in the passage against the Gulf war quoted by Rose Jennings as in the shrink-wrapped volumes on a newsagent 's top shelf . |