Example sentences of "on a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 2 | He wrote that no new ballet could be founded on a dead ritual . |
| 3 | Eliot draws a distinction between fertile ‘ borrowing ’ from remote cultural sources and ‘ founding ’ art on a dead ritual . |
| 4 | Pleistocene changes of sea level were not simple up and down movements with reversion to a pre-existing level , but oscillations superimposed on a generally downward movement . |
| 5 | For Hart , the existence of law and legal systems depends on a generally observable pattern of social and institutional behaviour in which ‘ rules ’ are generally effective ( Hart , 1961 ) . |
| 6 | The bay is a beautiful and tranquil enclave on a generally rugged coast . |
| 7 | The Wall Street Journal once reported a mainframe customer 's remark that the Amdahl coffee cup on his desk might look ordinary but it was in fact worth a million dollars , the size of IBM 's concession on a hotly contested deal . |
| 8 | The former is a traditional , working class district , redeveloped since the war and now housing a sizeable black and elderly population ; the latter is a new , working class estate created on a previously unused site and accommodating a relatively small nonwhite population . |
| 9 | Public appreciation of science was high , and funds for research became available on a previously unheard-of scale . |
| 10 | Following Andy 's directions , I saw climbers on a previously uncharted crag , which looked so big I began to run . |
| 11 | Nearly out of fuel , it landed on a previously uncharted islet , inadvertently adding a new outpost to the Philippine republic . |
| 12 | Both groups need to leave and are intending to settle on a previously uninhabited planet . |
| 13 | Some examples ( where the conditional repetition is based on a previously initialized counter ) are : ( a ) If X is " move " and the updating is incrementation by one , we have the block transfer operations described in 2.4 . |
| 14 | As an indication of just how easy it can be to start using a Macintosh from scratch we have recently installed a network system running PageMaker , MacWrite and MacDraw on a previously PC-only site . |
| 15 | Above all else , it is important that psychiatric inpatient care is based on a carefully coordinated policy , especially for patients at particular risk of suicide . |
| 16 | The CPT was established in 1980 on a jointly funded basis , shared between the NSPCC and Rochdale Social Services Department . |
| 17 | This communal support for older people in early modern England could be on a remarkably generous scale . |
| 18 | In liberal democratic circles , those most strongly identified with the dissident tradition , the 1989 revolutions are seen as the chance to embark on a qualitatively new political future . |
| 19 | Mr Pöhl meanwhile is trying to ensure that , when the Bundesbank is restructured to accommodate new representatives from eastern Germany , his own power to insist on a rigorously anti-inflationary policy is not diluted . |
| 20 | And , on a slightly wider front , Chesterman , in his CBC interview , admitted to finding ‘ bothersome ’ Karajan 's inexhaustible interest in the whys and wherefores of science , technology , and the ultimate questions of life and death . |
| 21 | Er on a slightly bigger scale entertainment again as we 're only a small college , we do tend to liaise with the bigger education establishment in the city , I E Birmingham University , Central England University formerly Birmingham Polytechnic and Aston University . |
| 22 | ‘ Good morning to you , Sir Enchanter , ’ he said , and Fenella , crouched behind folds upon folds of living colour , half suffocated , heard at once , that he had put on a slightly simple voice . |
| 23 | A few years later in 917 King Edward added a vast planned town to the south , laid out on a slightly skewed grid and with a massive open market place on its east . |
| 24 | If the mixture is too thin , remove the lid and cook on a slightly higher heat until the sauce reduces and thickens . |
| 25 | Many libraries on a slightly larger scale than this still survive and flourish outside the public library system . |
| 26 | And Christians can be involved in the local congregation for mutual ministry and encouragement and evangelism on a slightly larger scale . |
| 27 | On a slightly happier note , the Bass Centre would like to thank Johnny Roadhouse in Manchester for helping to retrieve one of the Status Empathy basses whipped from our Northern Music Show . |
| 28 | ' She ended on a slightly peevish note . |
| 29 | Mr Shipton ends his article on a slightly sceptical note , asking whether the three parties whose views he has canvassed will actually translate their environmental concerns into reality after April 9 . |
| 30 | Which brings us back to the old problem , ’ she finished on a slightly bitter note . |