Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remote monitoring service was originally put on trial about a year ago in the retail sector — one of Granada 's biggest markets — and its success prompted the firm to adopt the scheme company-wide . |
| 2 | Show secretary 's report in the show secretary 's absence due to the accident on route tonight the chairman said Mrs had done a fantastic job over the year and he wished to record his thanks to her . |
| 3 | Although therefore most advocates of a confessional approach have taken on board quite a lot of the criticism against old-style RE understood as indoctrinating , narrow , academic and meaningless to the vast majority of pupils , they have not gone far enough in meeting certain objections . |
| 4 | If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file . |
| 5 | On nationalisation around a quarter of households in Britain still lacked a supply of electricity , most of them in urban slums ( which had been uneconomic to connect either because of their short expected life or the inability of the occupants or unwillingness of their landlords to pay for internal wiring ) . |
| 6 | Even with the present trade restrictions it is estimated that we spend more than £350 million on liquor abroad every year . |
| 7 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 8 | We hope on Cabaret there every night , and we 've got two rainforest exhibitions going on there , so the Mail Art 's really exciting actually . |
| 9 | For patients on diet alone a check on the blood glucose and glycosylated haemoglobin by the general practitioner or diabetic clinic will suffice , with the patient testing the urine for glucose twice weekly avoiding using early-morning specimens . |
| 10 | In a desire to get something down on paper quickly the student is underestimating the power and importance of the introduction . |
| 11 | It was one of the truly marvellous innings , one that no one who saw it could ever forget ; since it has been shown on television virtually every time rain has stopped play in any match since , it would be almost impossible to have forgotten it anyway . |
| 12 | He 'd seen on television once an exorcism ceremony , a clergyman 's hands on the head of the afflicted person , the clergyman jerking about with spasms , perspiring and dishevelled . |
| 13 | This marks a contrast with HP and other retail credit , where the ‘ life ’ of each loan is on average roughly a year : for example , the £7,281 million extended on new agreements during 1979 ( see p. 23 ) left a total debt outstanding at the end of that year of £7,818 million . |
| 14 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 15 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 16 | ‘ They were on shore nearly a week , then Flint came back alone . |
| 17 | Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received . |
| 18 | During that time I held honorary NHS senior registrar status and , to maintain my clinical skills , was on call once a week as a resident registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology and did a full day 's operating list once every two weeks . |
| 19 | The standard reporting points are : On arrival overhead the DF facility . |