Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move followed the decision in September 1989 to affirm Slovenia 's sovereignty and its right of secession from the SFRY [ see pp. 36899-90 ] , and the consequent election in May 1990 of a centre-right coalition campaigning on such a platform [ see p. 37463 ] ; on this occasion , however , no mention was made of secession . |
| 2 | In fact , the 24-year-old first-time actor puts on such a performance that audiences are likely to be surprised . |
| 3 | For Edward , the solution was to hold Aquitaine in full sovereignty ; but the French would concede this only in the face of overwhelming defeat , and no settlement based on such a concession could endure . |
| 4 | Of these , some have quarrelled with his view that individuals are determined by practices on the grounds that , as Lukes puts it , any theory built on such a foundation fails to deal with the central problem of the relation between structure ( i.e. the constraints on actors ) and agency ( i.e. the freedom of agents ) . |
| 5 | In a poem designed on such a scale ( and this evidence of ‘ design ’ on such a scale from the first is astonishing ) it was obviously illegitimate to look , as Edmund Wilson did , for emotional or affective unity in each or any Canto in isolation . |
| 6 | A negative judgement passed on such a belief has repercussions on the person , however indirect these may be . |
| 7 | Constructing a false alibi is difficult , and the beginner would perhaps be well advised not to make the whole of a book depend on such a device . |
| 8 | I wonder if they are aware of the protection that byway status confers on such a right of way . |
| 9 | The information provided on such a system is predistilled by the producers . |
| 10 | Although normally the courts will be reluctant to intervene in ‘ matters depending essentially on political judgment ’ , the prospect of challenge in the Divisional Court is one that any Minister exercising a statutory power , or any official advising on such a decision , is bound to keep in mind . |
| 11 | In the current case , J Hedley Walton deceased v Inland Revenue , a challenge is being mounted to the value put on such a tenancy . |
| 12 | Such a clause has much the same effect as one which excludes liability for breach and in Anglo-Continental Holidays Ltd v Typaldos Lines ( London ) Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 61 Lord Denning MR indicated that he would not be prepared to allow a party to rely on such a clause to change the whole nature of the contract . |