Example sentences of "on a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She skidded on a little way , then side-slipped back towards him . |
| 2 | The proposal to build a supermarket , car park and doctors ' surgery on a former school cricket field between Queens Road and Quaker Lane , Richmond , comes before a special meeting of Richmondshire District Council 's development services committee on Thursday . |
| 3 | Deerpark Securities ' scheme to build a supermarket , doctor 's surgery and parking for 310 cars on a former school cricket field off Quaker Lane Queens Road , Richmond , aroused fierce debate in the town and surrounding villages . |
| 4 | Jones searches for chinks of light in a dark age for women 's tennis David Foot on a former champion and her bright sparks aiming high in Cardiff . |
| 5 | Jones searches for chinks of light in a dark age for women 's tennis David Foot on a former champion and her bright sparks aiming high in Cardiff . |
| 6 | North Housing Association is building 24 flats on a former play area in Miers Avenue . |
| 7 | POLICE are investigating an arson attack on a former DIY shop in a popular Middlesbrough shopping area . |
| 8 | On a former World War One airfield at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire , 2 pilots and 2 wingwalkers prepared for stunt never before attempted in Britain , exchanging a 7ft baton at 5,000 feet , while one of them hung upside down . |
| 9 | The humorous line ‘ It means I 've got to grow up , it means you want to throw up ’ shows that the narrator appreciates the stupidity of clinging to lost love and its souring effect on a former partner . |
| 10 | Few want to remain financially dependent on a former partner unless absolutely necessary , and may see no reason why he should not have his share of the proceeds from the house sale . |
| 11 | Quite what earth , wind and fire had to do with building a car factory on a former aerodrome in the Wiltshire countryside was never satisfactorily explained . |
| 12 | Manchester 765 seen operating here in Heaton Park , Manchester on a former tramway branch line into the park . |
| 13 | The second is based on a latter day philanthropy , which like its nineteenth-century antecedent , muffles the iron fist of control in the velvet glove of sentiment . |
| 14 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 15 | Leith had a brief discussion with Robert Drewer on a few matters , collected up several files while she was at it , then went to her own office , where her assistant had just arrived . |
| 16 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 17 | I was now at a bit of a loss as to what to do next , so I wandered upstairs to the room that housed the books covering my subject , just to check up on a few things . |
| 18 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 19 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 20 | ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Simon , ’ he said , as he began to eat , ‘ and I 'd be grateful if you could fill me in on a few things . ’ |
| 23 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 24 | Went down town on a few errands . ’ |
| 25 | He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 26 | You could afford to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 27 | Six kids , Dad on a few shillings a week , when he was out of work , Mam had to go out scrubbing , washing . |
| 28 | This may be confirmed on a few sites by the presence of a small cemetery over the site of the original house , after it had been thoroughly demolished , since some of the graves have been dug into the wall foundations , showing an ignorance of their existence . |
| 29 | These plants can exceed the size of some national markets , leading producers to concentrate their production on a few sites and export to small markets : some chemical plants in Brazil or Mexico serve other parts of the Latin American market . |
| 30 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |