Example sentences of "on an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the speaker is going to refer to headings on a blackboard , or diagrams on an Overhead Projector you have to make sure that the viewer too can refer to them . |
| 2 | By December 1917 Madame Weill had moved from her tiny shop on the Rue Victor-Masse , where she pinned up her pictures with clothes-pegs on an overhead wire like washing , to a more imposing venue , Galerie B. Weill , 50 Rue Taitbout in the 9th arrondissement . |
| 3 | The bottles were gassed out with argon and then incubated for 48 hours at 37°C on an orbital shaker . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's time you learnt to look after yourself , or else you 'll find you 're firmly on an unreachable shelf . |
| 5 | Shaw produced images described as a woman 's navel , a breast , a thigh , and Jesus , on an 8 mm movie film , This he did by spitting on the lens . |
| 6 | r.s.s is rec.sport.soccer newsgroup on the net use the rn command and g rec.sport.soccer and embark on an 8 month debate on why Pele is better than Maradona . |
| 7 | The clue to one 's dissatisfaction comes on page 60 when , in the course of a short section on advertising and television , Hewison writes , ‘ Our world picture breaks up , splintered into clips and cuts , suspended on an unending flow of imagery , a single sentence of infinite variety , with only the passage of time as continuity . ’ |
| 8 | Significance levels ( two sided ) for the relative risks were calculated , based on an assumed Poisson distribution . |
| 9 | Indeed , most psychometric testing of applicants for jobs is based on an assumed consistency of traits or types . |
| 10 | This approach may be called DUALIST , because it rests on an assumed dualism , in language , between form and meaning . |
| 11 | To a large extent this was based on an assumed chronology of place-name development with the earliest names generally ending in -ton . |
| 12 | The figures are calculated on an assumed growth rate of 10.75% and are therefore not guaranteed , as unit prices can fall as well as rise . |
| 13 | The cross-over ages are usually calculated on an assumed growth rate of 2 per cent above national average earnings — if actual growth is lower , the SERPS benefits may not be matched . |
| 14 | But there is evidence that species which wholly abandon sex are short-lived on an evolutionary time-scale . |
| 15 | As the ubiquity of stellar coronae had only just been discovered with the Einstein Observatory , the absence of coronae for stars of this type was tantalizing , especially as they seemed to disappear rather rapidly ( on an evolutionary timescale ) . |
| 16 | It is difficult to accept Gandhi 's argument , based as it is on an evolutionary view of history , that mankind is continually moving in the direction of an utopia where ahi sā will prevail . |
| 17 | However , that agenda did have the advantage that it could be developed on an evolutionary basis , and that further innovations could be incorporated without major upheaval . |
| 18 | In the early days of the development of anthropology it was the fashion to place culture on an evolutionary ladder ranging from primitive to developed . |
| 19 | It is quite an elaborate item : Youth and Age sit on an oval cartouche flanked by Time and Eternity . |
| 20 | If working on an oval picture you will have to use several small pieces so that they follow the shape of the frame ( see p. 91 ) . |
| 21 | There were two large vegetable dishes with lids on in the centre of the table and , beyond them , on an oval plate , was a roasted chicken , brown and shiny with stuffing oozing from one end . |
| 22 | Is this on an employed basis in n it ? |
| 23 | At one extreme ( for instance , when grass-letting ) you can get by with little more than the dwelling house : at the other ( on an intensively-run livestock farm ) special buildings are essential . |
| 24 | In others , where the courts have been unable to find any contract between the parties , the courts have had to rely on an equitable doctrine of confidence . |
| 25 | Consequently , the model excludes activities associated with making precise calculations of actual resource needs and costs , and reflects the use of weighted factors to determine instead the relative costs of courses , thus allowing the available finance to be allocated on an equitable basis to Colleges , and within Colleges , to Departments . |
| 26 | In this situation , where the fundamental requirement is to allocate available finance on an equitable basis to Colleges , it is unlikely that the system can achieve equilibrium . |
| 27 | Consequently , meat and milk are not available in sufficient quantities and it is rationed on an equitable basis , For example , in Guazapa , children receive five , glasses of milk a week — but even such small quantities represent a significant advance for the majority of campesino families , accustomed to a diet restricted to tortillas and beans . |
| 28 | Project B remits larger cash inflows spread over a five-year period as opposed to the three years of cash inflows from Project A. Discounted cash flows would provide a rational basis for comparing these two projects on an equitable basis . |
| 29 | They became less capable of providing central services on an economical basis ( school transport , for instance ) or on an equitable basis ( such as evenly spread central library facilities or schemes of specialist instruction and the organization required in , for instance , music ) . |
| 30 | That in line with the Area Staff Commission and understanding the need to give adequate administrative support on an equitable basis , Regional Coordinators be given a budget of certainly not less in real terms than at present , to allocate to administrative support for regional colleagues wef April 1st , 1993 . |