Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , where a customer is experienced and familiar with transactions on the relevant market a lower level of disclosure may suffice . |
| 2 | Class accents lie at the heart of such mimicry , though on the printed page a betraying turn of phrase , or a tell-tale choice of words like ‘ dodgy ’ or ‘ darling ’ , can be represented more easily than an impure vowel . |
| 3 | Residence at the Tuileries imposed on the Imperial family a pattern of life in which rare moments of private relaxation alternated with the exhausting obligations of public ceremonial . |
| 4 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |
| 5 | Not the way it is today , when on the rare occasion an employee accompanies a guest here , he is likely to be some newcomer who has little to say about anything other than Association Football , and who prefers to pass the evening not by the fire of the servants ' hall , but drinking at the Ploughman 's Arms — or indeed , as seems increasingly likely nowadays , at the Star Inn . |
| 6 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 7 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 8 | On the following day a leading member of Milosevic 's Serbian Socialist Party labelled the Croatian authorities as fascists , while Croatia 's President Franjo Tudjman accused the Serbian leadership of inciting terrorism . |
| 9 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 10 | The statement prompted on the following day a message from UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd expressing surprise at its content . |
| 11 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 12 | On the following day a statement was made in the Daily Worker embodying the Comintern declaration and correcting the previous statement of policy . |
| 13 | On the following morning a number of soundings were taken . |
| 14 | A party was held at A L'Ecu de France to celebrate the first night , and on the following evening a small reception was held at Kensington Court Gardens to celebrate his seventieth birthday . |
| 15 | ‘ This whole analysis will derive from one simple proposition , namely that the distinguishing characteristic of adjudication lies in the fact that it confers on the affected party a peculiar form of participation in the decision , that of presenting proofs and reasoned arguments for a decision in his favour . |
| 16 | In the fifth-century versions Aristogeiton is a pace in front , on the Roman relief a pace behind — perhaps only for clarity ; in the original they may have been level . |
| 17 | On the second occasion an inspector recognised his van and refused to let him unload the stock . |
| 18 | On the second occasion an inspector recognised his van and re fused to let him unload the stock . |
| 19 | All done at eighty five pounds ninety good for ninety five one hundred seated and ten one ten on the right standing a hundred and ten against you all at and twenty one thirty one thirty , on the right standing , at one thirty are you all done at a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 20 | A similar exercise which will only work with a low handicap golfer is one of trying to stay back on the right side a little longer , and to be slightly flat-footed with the right foot through impact . |
| 21 | If the lease is to be registered at HM Land Registry and the demised property is part only of a building , then unless the land can be accurately identified on the General Map a plan must be provided ( Land Registration Rules 1925 , r54 ) . |
| 22 | This philosophy finds expression in some recent social thought and has been most notably promulgated in the area of social services , producing on the far right a philosophy of welfare in which the care of family members is increasingly seen as a private problem , to be undertaken using family resources only , and to be underpinned only in extreme circumstances by a residual network of statutory services . |
| 23 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 24 | On the far side a mountain bus route ( Timetable No 470.30 ) operates to Sarnen , which has a railway station on the Interlaken-Brunig-Luzern line . |
| 25 | On the far side a crowd of two or three hundred people had already gathered : craggy old Muslims with long beards and mountainous turbans ; small Hindu shopkeepers in blue striped lungis ; Kashmiri pandits in long frock coats and Congress hats . |
| 26 | So on the Western Front a monstrous war of attrition developed in which hundreds of thousands of soldiers were thrown in repeated and hopeless assaults against their enemy . |
| 27 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 28 | But the most ambitious financial venture is a project to build on the Catalan coast a holiday resort called Cosmo Dali , complete with a yacht harbour and leisure park . |
| 29 | On the first occasion a violent thunderstorm blew up on that beautiful summer day , wrecking any attempt at further recording and causing damage to the equipment . |
| 30 | I stayed in hotels to begin with and when I finally moved into a flat , on the first night a rat ran across my chest . |