Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart could have ached , could have dragged her down , but she did not let it , was keeping that lump of a heart on a short cruel chain like a dangerous dog . |
| 2 | How sad was the Rector 's face , she thought ; sad as the sound of a cello on a rainy afternoon . |
| 3 | Trockel has created a video projection recording the unravelling of a garment on a female model , and of one of her own flat knitted paintings . |
| 4 | Schoolchildren have been asked to design a mural as part of a facelift on a grubby subway in the centre of South Bank between Asda and Nelson Street . |
| 5 | Schoolchildren have been asked to design a mural as part of a facelift on a grubby subway in the centre of South Bank between Asda and Nelson Street . |
| 6 | The absence of a Committee on a particular subject ( for example , agriculture or poverty ) does not mean that the Government do not attach importance to it ; and the fact that a particular Minister is not on a Committee does not mean that he does not attend when his interests are affected . |
| 7 | The potential reader of a monograph on a minor artist may not find a book easily , but there are plenty of publications on Leonardo , Rembrandt or Picasso . |
| 8 | ( b ) Portrait of a couple on a commemorative wedding ring . |
| 9 | This was an appeal by the Crown by leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Lane C.J. , Hutchison and Mantell JJ. ) from its decision on 22 April 1991 allowing an appeal by the defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his conviction at Isleworth Crown Court ( Mr. Recorder Bassingthwaighte ) on two counts of theft , the defendant having on 20 April 1990 pleaded guilty on re-arraignment to one count and on 24 April 1990 been found guilty by verdict of a jury on a further count . |
| 10 | The opposition parties had on Jan. 4 called for a three-day strike on Jan. 7-9 , with the aim of securing the " immediate and unconditional " resignation of Mobutu , notwithstanding his promise ( in an address to the country on Dec. 31 ) that 1991 would see the organization of presidential and legislative elections and of a referendum on a new constitution . |
| 11 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 12 | The greatest surprise came when in 1935 Warner Bros released Black Fury , a movie which depicted in a direct and totally unprecedented way the impact of a strike on a coal-mining community . |
| 13 | But because of the council 's incompetence , which has meant that her rent card is now marked as owing rent , and lacking a deposit , she would be dependent on a somewhat shady mortgage company for the mortgage to buy such a house ( rent cards are the easiest and most common means of checking on the credit-worthiness of a person on a low income ) . |
| 14 | Ramsay has likened the situation in many towns to that of a castaway on a tropical island . |
| 15 | An early hand-painted clockwork tinplate toy of a clown on a Grasshopper and another of a Toff on a Rocking Goat , both possibly by Gunterman , each made £750 . |
| 16 | One cause of conflict in the plot is the presence of a Mosque on a Hindu holy site . |
| 17 | But outside there was the sound of a bulldozer on a nearby site , the men yelling to each other above the racket . |
| 18 | It was of a harbour on a rough and windy day , which some small sailing ships were trying to enter with , it appeared to Ellie , no little difficulty , while behind them a steamer was cutting through the seas at great speed . |
| 19 | Similarly , the use of AZT in early AIDS was quickly approved after the appearance of a report on a controlled trial in April 1990 ( New Engl.J.Med. 322 , 941 ; 1990 ) . |
| 20 | Even if it has , you should not always expect reliable reading of a file on a 5.25 inch disk when it has been written on a 1.2MB drive and you are attempting to read the file on a 360K drive . |
| 21 | For example , in ascertaining the image of a book on a distant plane , he adopted a procedure familiar to artists for almost a century . |
| 22 | A further important European issue concerns the adoption by the European Council of a Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of at least three years ' professional education and training . |
| 23 | Well it 's like getting out of a car on a hot day and putting your putting your hand on the door , I think . |
| 24 | A memory came back to haunt him : the cold-blooded murder of a soldier on a bleak snow-covered hillside . |
| 25 | The opulent comfort of a limousine on a long motorway journey … |
| 26 | The final fall-back position for this group of very hard to place unemployed people should be the offer of a place on a temporary work scheme . |
| 27 | Penry made no answer for a moment as he edged past a cattle-truck on a straight stretch of road . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm up and down the stairs and in and out of the bloody shelter like a hen on a hot griddle . |
| 29 | There was just a rough road with little houses on either side , and what looked like a church on a low hill . |
| 30 | When there was Theda behaving like a cat on a hot bakestone , what would you have had me do ? ’ |