Example sentences of "on [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
| 2 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 3 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 4 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 5 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 6 | The managing director of Oxford United said the club will fight on for a new stadium , despite planning problems . |
| 7 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 8 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 9 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 10 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 11 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 12 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 13 | Behind the scenes , apparently unknown to the minister and BT , there is a hunt on for a suitable candidate , probably Prince Philip or Prince Charles . |
| 14 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 15 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 16 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 17 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 18 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
| 19 | I went to the sink and turned the cold tap on for a long drink to combat the dehydration . |
| 20 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 21 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 22 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 23 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 24 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 25 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 26 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 27 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 28 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 29 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |