Example sentences of "on [prep] an [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 2 | So the search is on for an acceptable new arrangement for increased French involvement in the military affairs of the alliance . |
| 3 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 4 | They were passing thin poplars in a quiet so intense that you could hear the yellow poplar leaves dropping to the ground , on past an old stumpy church and a graveyard , with earthen walls and a beech hedge around it . |
| 5 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 6 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
| 7 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 8 | A BOY cheated death after falling 20ft on to an electrified high-speed railway line . |
| 9 | The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course . |
| 10 | One morning he batted on to an unbeaten hundred . |
| 11 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | A swift tour of inspection revealed numerous bedrooms , an enormous sitting-room with a raised dining-area visible through an archway , and a whole wall of french doors opening on to an oval glittering blue swimming-pool . |
| 13 | After the theatrics of the ridge , it 's a strange experience to emerge up on to an enormous flat plateau — a bit like climbing the ladder up to your loft and discovering it leads to an American Football stadium . |
| 14 | In summer the family spills out on to an adjoining sun-trap patio . |
| 15 | She began taking A-levels while working as a secretary for the Commission for Racial Equality , and , urged on by an old Somervillian , wrote to Somerville . |