Example sentences of "on [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why deny them the benefit of self respect and a sense of purpose , which training on such a scheme would create . |
| 2 | This procedure is most suitable for bills that do not raise issues on which parties automatically disagree ; to use select committee-type sittings on such a bill would be to provide further time for repetition of standard partisan arguments . |
| 3 | To what extent students on such a degree would also need to read poetry in another language is a difficult question . |
| 4 | For Edward , the solution was to hold Aquitaine in full sovereignty ; but the French would concede this only in the face of overwhelming defeat , and no settlement based on such a concession could endure . |
| 5 | Failure on such a scale can be attributable only to some major underlying cause , which has stubbornly defied discovery , or has been equally stubbornly kept hidden by those who , whilst being aware of it , are interested only in its continued existence . |
| 6 | The choice of a system because of particular or peculiar features also needs careful consideration , as this implies that programs developed on such a system will be machine-dependent and not transferable to other systems . |
| 7 | What chance is there that a start on such a package could be made in the near future ? |
| 8 | The teachers on such a programme would have to confront the difficulty I have just raised , as well as questions about the mimetic values of fiction in the face of structuralist and poststructuralist assertions that word and world have no necessary relation . |
| 9 | ( Any point on such a world-sheet can be described by two numbers : one specifying the time and the other the position of the point on the string . ) |
| 10 | Sheriff Richard Scott told Alasdair Paton , 22 , a graphics student , of Seaview Terrace , Portobello , that conviction on such a charge would normally merit a prison sentence , but it was not appropriate in this case . |
| 11 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 12 | On these a roundsman can earn £15,000 a year or more . |