Example sentences of "on [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all the pupils interviewed used counting on or a mixture of subtraction and counting on methods . |
| 2 | Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing . |
| 3 | Erm yea , i I 'll come back on that a couple of points , erm regarding Mr Donson erm and the Southern Ryedale and York greenbelt local plan inquiry . |
| 4 | She had a long , loose dark brown skirt on and a cotton shirt and waistcoat . |
| 5 | Just instinct , because I had my painting clothes on and a bit of water would n't have done any harm . |
| 6 | The journey ended , six days on and a world of difference at Chepstow Bridge , just below the walls of the castle . |
| 7 | At high Reynolds numbers ( based on and a length scale defined in a way indicated in Section 19.4 ) the cascade is long ; i.e. there is a large difference in the eddy sizes at its ends . |
| 8 | She 's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom . |
| 9 | Lucy had her serious office-work glasses on and a sheaf of papers . |
| 10 | Whether Shabba succeeds outside of the reggae market is dependent on whether a major can retain the energy of his ragga product . |
| 11 | Under the provision of the Companies Act 1989 the Secretary of State has powers to seek a ruling from the courts , under a new civil procedure , on whether a company 's accounts comply with the provisions of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 12 | You may wish to seek legal advice on whether a contract could be drawn up . |
| 13 | The subjunctive in French allows the speaker to adopt this purely imaginary position from which he can give a verdict on whether a happening should have occurred or not . |
| 14 | Depending on whether a person is a Muslim or not , the sentence varies according to circumstances . |
| 15 | Your meeting also highlighted a 10p differential in fares between Kirknewton and Edinburgh , depending on whether a journey was made during the morning or evening peak . |
| 16 | In Bali , where cockfighting is also a controlled ritual , the cocks have two spurs with honed edges , rather than a single spur with a sharpened point , so the battles differ in style and technique , according to the aficionados , rather as swordsmanship differs depending on whether a cutlass or a rapier is used . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple . |
| 18 | However , Theo Waigel , the German Finance Minister , stressed that the criteria should not be applied mechanically , and that there should be " scope for political judgment " on whether a country was fit for full EMU . |
| 19 | Thus , while all the usual contractual rules about offer and acceptance , consideration , intention to create legal relations , illegality , mistake , misrepresentation , repudiation , breach , discharge and so forth are relevant to understanding the contractual context of the reference to the expert , those rules may also have a direct bearing on whether a decision of an expert can be enforced . |
| 20 | The sample selected should be properly established and of an appropriate size based on whether a misstatement of a particular size or frequency would affect the interpretation of data and any points of weakness identified during systems evaluation and compliance testing . |
| 21 | For Dr Richard Gill , senior executive in the Pharmaceuticals Division at the British Technology Group , which helps industry seek out and develop new technology originating in universities and institutes , the decision on whether a project goes ahead rests in part on animal welfare issues . |
| 22 | ADECISION on whether a trainee journalist should be jailed for contempt of court was yesterday adjourned until next month pending a hearing in the House of Lords . |
| 23 | ( In the Penn country one can tell who is anyone — it depends on whether a woman kisses Lady Curzon or not . ) |
| 24 | The reality of such choice depended on whether a reader cared who owned the papers . |
| 25 | However , whether a horse is friendly or not has no bearing on whether a horse is a good riding horse : some horses who are very good to ride show no indication of liking people at all . |
| 26 | Later that month the draft report of the Cadbury Committee on Corporate Governance was published , calling for directors to report explicitly on whether a business is a going concern and for auditors to report on this statement . |
| 27 | There are many cases ( noted below ) on whether a business is transferred as a going concern . |
| 28 | They need to focus on whether a report is addressed to funders , potential funders or someone else . |
| 29 | A government committee is to report on whether a cash value should be placed on environmental features threatened by road building schemes . |
| 30 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |