Example sentences of "on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to the fact that most of his time was spent working on a vast selection of crashed and captured German aircraft , he got to know ( and love ) them quite well . |
| 2 | Makarenko revived the military model in microcosm , and his strict pedagogical methods were adopted on a vast scale in the 1930s by Stalin , who reawakened many other lingering aspects of military-inspired government . |
| 3 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 4 | He asked : ‘ Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 5 | Who in the Government intends to take responsibility for this negligence on a vast scale , that is now costing vast sums of public money ? ’ |
| 6 | It could reach both upwards and downwards to pluck vegetation from all directions on a vast scale , and so lost little time ( or energy ) moving about . |
| 7 | It did not have to be on a vast scale , dazzling or absolute . |
| 8 | Every undergraduate astronomy student can tell you why the Sun shines : a series of nuclear fusion reactions , whose end result is the conversion of hydrogen to helium , happen on a vast scale , and release prodigious amounts of energy in the form of heat , light , X-rays and so on . |
| 9 | All social and economic organisms now produce documents on a vast scale . |
| 10 | Once inside EURO DISNEYLAND you can look forward to exhilarating non-stop fun and entertainment on a vast scale . |
| 11 | Similarly , the massive movement of earth involved in modern road construction provides little chance of survival for any archaeological site on the line of a new road ; the construction of dams usually involves earth-moving on a vast scale , and the destruction and drowning of large areas of the landscape . |
| 12 | It is on a vast scale though : Franz Schrader , the first great cartographer of these mountains , estimated that it would hold twenty million people ; modern guidebooks have cut this number churlishly , and for all I know realistically down to three million . |
| 13 | The digging of kaolin , actually decomposed granite , on a vast scale for the pottery industry produces a tortured landscape unlike any other in England . |
| 14 | Criminal financial fraud on a vast scale has emerged as threat to the financial health of the community . |
| 15 | The idea that one first denies to the poorer areas of Europe the opportunity to compete on costs , to move their exchange rates and to operate their fiscal policies in ways which would attract private investment , and then compensates by redistributing funds on a vast scale , is socialism at its silliest . |
| 16 | Industrial sea litter on a vast scale . |
| 17 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 18 | AN EDINBURGH University student caused chaos on a vast scale by hacking into computers around the world from a £200 desktop machine in his bedroom , a London court was told yesterday . |
| 19 | Prosecutor James Richardson said : ‘ He could get into any system and cause havoc on a vast scale . |
| 20 | James Richardson , prosecuting , said Bedworth had caused chaos on a vast scale and worried the experts . |
| 21 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 22 | Now she could see red houses , swimming-pools , race tracks , skyscrapers sticking up like teeth , and roads and railways so uniformly crisscross they seemed like tiles on a vast kitchen floor . |
| 23 | Such an economy was highly dependent on a vast mass of skilled labour and a greater horde of the lesser skilled . |
| 24 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 25 | I and my colleague here have the pleasure and the privilege of serving on a vast majority of a Liberal Democrat erm local authority . |
| 26 | He reads and digests material on a vast range of topics and picks the brains of most of the leading authorities . |
| 27 | Today such inferences about the origins of language can draw on a vast assemblage of data and hypotheses in neighbouring disciplines . |
| 28 | Their system is based on a vast number of smallholders on tiny plots of land , working with incredible skill , dedication , and thrift . |
| 29 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 30 | Opened in 1970 by Charles Forte , now Lord Forte , the village is built on a vast estate , lavishly covered in pine woods and colourful shrubs . |