Example sentences of "on [det] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARSONISTS laid a meticulous fire-trail on each floor of a four-storey Teesside warehouse . |
| 2 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 3 | The train was painted Navy Grey , with a red Geneva cross on each vehicle in a conspicuous place , while within , enamelled white paint prevailed . |
| 4 | An objective duty to balance potentially conflicting interests would present the courts with a near-impossible task and hence it is impracticable to impose one : not only would the court need to assess the likely impact on each group of a contested business policy , both in the short and long term , but also it would have to evaluate the policy in accordance with a theory which stipulated when one set of interests should prevail over the others . |
| 5 | A further search of the area revealed mill-stones and a stone bridge some 20ft long , slightly arched , but with each end perfectly jointed into the bedrock on each side of a rushing stream . |
| 6 | In the centre was the velour package of diamonds , framed on each side by a half-pound block of tacky beige substance . |
| 7 | On each activation of a particular process , the log file is extended . |
| 8 | Although the Cruising Club will provide a group departure on that date with a welcoming cocktail party in Langkawi and a representative to offer specialist advice , the holiday will not be flotilla orientated . |
| 9 | Members of the World Sephardi foundation were arriving in Ankara on that day for a two-day visit in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Jews ' arrival in Istanbul [ see p. 38823 for commemoration of expulsion of Jews from Spain ] . |
| 10 | Paul introduced a total system there for er maintenance on that machine on a daily weekly and monthly basis . |
| 11 | I have in fact only once been incapacitated , on that occasion by a severe attack of malaria . |
| 12 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 13 | He was convinced that the surface of the planet Mars was criss-crossed by irrigational canals , betraying the presence on that world of a sophisticated civilization . |
| 14 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 15 | There was a full page article announcing Darwinism is dead , which turned out as a matter of fact to be a reprint of an article which had appeared some months earlier in the Sunday Times of this country , erm which in fact was based very largely on some work by a young man called Steele , which none of us , I think , believed at the time , and which was since turned out clearly to have been mistaken . |
| 16 | They must be on some sort of a one of the meters or somebody 's meter or somewhere . |
| 17 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 18 | The Italian showman ( left ) will be roared on this weekend by a huge home crowd in the northern Italian resort as he launches his defence of the giant slalom and slalom titles he won with ease last year . |
| 19 | Statham , 1929 : some doubt has been cast on this principle by a later decision but it would almost certainly still apply ) . |
| 20 | At the start of the conference , the 18 countries which together comprised the European Community and the European Free Trade Area had agreed on this freeze as a common target . |
| 21 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 22 | Malpas , the captain , normally deals with such intrusions efficiently , but blundered on this occasion with a slack header towards his goalkeeper which Wright intercepted and guided beyond the advancing Main . |
| 23 | She brooded on this flower with a desiccating look . |
| 24 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 25 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | I increased the size of the outlet on this filter from a 1.5 to a 2″ pipe , the intention being to continue to use it , but make a connection from this into the 4′ filter I would build . |
| 27 | Few in a packed , drenched stadium would have bet on either outcome in a first half where England 's attacking approach was skidding and slipping off course while the bigger Boks dug in , drove hard and let the awesome boot of Botha do the rest . |
| 28 | Their eyes were identically glazed in male and female as they stood on either side of a seated broadclothed patriarch . |
| 29 | Contestants would engage in three types of contest : close combat , in which knights would fight on foot with blunted daggers , swords or spears ; jousting or tilting , in which mounted knights on either side of a low barrier would charge each other with blunted lances ; and contests of skill in which mounted knights would attempt to skewer rings from posts . |
| 30 | The barn was not full , but in some of the stalls on either side of a broad central aisle he could see heaped mountains of grain as his eyes became accustomed to the dark . |