Example sentences of "on a [noun] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a recent letter , easily faxed , may provide sufficient data for an unfamiliar doctor or team to cope until notes are found , and if letters are stored as a cumulative file on a word processor a fairly complete history may easily be obtained from a secretary . |
| 2 | So Deborah had to be content to ride on a tree branch every Saturday morning on her way to Pack Meeting but she did long to be on the back of a real pony again and to help in the stables as she used to do , and learn how a pony should be shoed , cared for and fed , and to know and do the other things required to pass the Pony Rider test . |
| 3 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 4 | In schools serving either the suburban middle classes or the semi-skilled occupational groups on a council estate the classification of children by gender was weaker than that found in the ‘ traditional working-class ’ school . |
| 5 | On a village green an Aboriginal gentleman demonstrates the use of the boomerang — assisted by a retriever dog . |
| 6 | Typical bioelectromagnetic procedures utilise instruments capable of displaying on a video screen the changing patterns of the EM fields . |
| 7 | He says on a 500-acre farm the cost of an innocent error in completing the complicated forms might be a loss of more than £100,000 over a two-year period and assured bankruptcy for the farmer concerned . |
| 8 | Like cats ' eyes on a night road the pale faces beamed at Holly and his adversary through the greyness of the room . |
| 9 | On a third occasion , Alexander II was returning from the front during the Russo-Turkish War and recognized on a station platform an officer who had deserted from the army . |
| 10 | A designer need only draw on a computer screen the letter forms that he likes and the machine will convert them automatically into Bézier curves . |
| 11 | Information on a computer disc a database giving details of the crew of a spaceship , or a message transmitted through space from the crew to settlers on a distant planet . |
| 12 | Gentlemen who were early baronets of Scotland were authorised to charge their arms with a canton ( or escutcheon ) carrying the arms of the province of Nova Scotia — argent on a saltire azure an escutcheon of the Royal Amis of Scotland . |
| 13 | On it there 's a paraffin stove for immediate needs ( my coffees ! ) , but most food is boiled or fried on a metal construction the size of a large upturned basin which has two openings into which long pieces of wood are fed . |
| 14 | Once a fortnight on a Sunday afternoon the girls went to tea with Gran Bristow in the little house that had once been their home . |
| 15 | Well the , all the others go on a Saturday but Heidi said she would be in it if she did n't have to go on Saturday , every Saturday , because she goes riding you see at nine o'clock nine till four so er Wendy said oh she 'll have her up on a Sunday afternoon the two or three principals . |
| 16 | Similar pipe in black neoprene , polyethylene or rubber can be adapted ; in fact , on a carbon frame the neoprene looks all the more professional . |
| 17 | For the high speed range it can be deduced from these curves that to reach 150mph on a 40° slope the air resistance would need to be reduced by a factor of about 2.70 , by streamlining or increased altitude , as compared with normal skiing at 6,000ft . |
| 18 | Although on a world scale the geothermal energy contribution is low , more than 50 countries are at present engaged in research into methods of exploiting it . |
| 19 | On a Friday night the street fills with the cross-section of society that inhabits this cultural mix . |
| 20 | At 9.30 on a Friday morning the players would arrive at the ground for training , then at mid-day would congregate in the manager 's office to discuss the next day 's match , as well as analysing the previous week 's . |
| 21 | I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week . |
| 22 | On a business sale the acquirer must insure or be joined as a beneficiary under the vendor 's insurance from the date of signing of the contract . |
| 23 | On a sound towpath a horse could pull up to 50 tons . |
| 24 | ‘ On a Community level the priority is on investment programmes , and there will be more finance available for this . ’ |
| 25 | Special effects for this show were highly inventive , achieving on a shoestring budget a look comparable with many much more expensive feature films . |
| 26 | Whereas reported HC retained profits for ICI total £4¾bn , on a CPP basis the company has paid 92 £4bn of dividends out of purchasing power capital . |
| 27 | And therefore grumbling couples complain in cars on their way to Harley Street from the Home Counties and beg one another not to let them drink too much : therefore Esther and Alix meet and laugh on a street corner a few hundred yards away : therefore stepchildren muster and stepparents-in-law assemble : therefore Liz Headleand 's mother sits alone , ever alone untelephoned , distant , incomprehending , incomprehended , remote , mad , long mad , imprisoned , secret , silent , silenced , listening to the silence of her house . |
| 28 | A group of more than 30 travellers ' caravans have now set up on a roadside site a mile from the village at Crew crossroads . |
| 29 | However , all the paths in the construction are directed ; that is , all the arrows on a path point the same way , away from the root . |
| 30 | We did not have the time to visit the swimming-pool three times a week , and we were not interested in pumping iron or trundling around on an exercise bike every morning . |