Example sentences of "[noun sg] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a gesture of faith in the future on a scale that takes the breath away and confounds the gloom merchants . |
| 2 | One 's inability to make better speed on a scrambling descent seems as paradoxical as it is frustrating . |
| 3 | The rails of your board determine how well it sails upwind and its ability to maintain grip at speed on a reach and during a turn . |
| 4 | Indeed , the Ramblers Association has gone further than my hon. Friend has suggested in connection with that line , and has stated that , if British Rail increases the speed on a line , it will also be reducing the safety on it . |
| 5 | The years of his isolation on a world where it was often a good idea to appear without warning had taught him how to move silently . |
| 6 | An attendant from the tabernacle came along with a bucket and a sponge on a stick . |
| 7 | Yet more featured an emaciated man , clad only in underpants , lying face-down on a bed , his ribs and backbone pushing against his skin . |
| 8 | It 's just that , unlike some other European countries , nakedness on a beach is n't considered a crime . |
| 9 | PETER Hunter , Damien Sarsfield and John Smethurst are seeking election to the National Executive Council of the National and Local Government 's Officers ' Association on a platform of total opposition to the union 's present disgraceful policy on abortion . |
| 10 | Memos are often used to put forward a view or to provide new thinking on a subject . |
| 11 | The actual driving force behind American thinking on a renewal of atomic collaborations was anxiety about uranium ore supplies , which were being consumed at an increasing rate as American programmes accelerated . |
| 12 | This has not encouraged clear thinking on a number of other points of vital importance to RE , such as the question of openness and religious commitment presumed by many to be incompatible . |
| 13 | Her hands slapped the wall , like someone drumming a loose rhythm on a tom-tom . |
| 14 | From October that year , a small car was towed behind the first electric car of the day to South Station , and pulled by a horse on a shuttle service between there and Squires Gate . |
| 15 | The grain may be in a pocket , hidden inside a box , or out of sight above the horse on a bird table . |
| 16 | I 'm standing on one hip , propped up like a nonchalant horse on a summer 's day , making heavy work of waiting for him . |
| 17 | the I mean with refer to footpaths you are not allowed to ride a horse on a footpath . |
| 18 | The boy lived on a roundabout of encircling affections , complex loyalties , quick on the emotional draw , switching from role to role as bolder boys scramble from horse to horse on a carousel : and always , it seemed , outside the house of Elfed , Richard was the bringer of good fortune . |
| 19 | Day works is a means of paying a contractor on a time and materials basis for incidental work to the contract to comply with the engineer 's instructions , with additions for overheads and profit . |
| 20 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 21 | On Mr Carr 's instructions , his in-house accountant noted which stock lines AY was testing and altered the other lines of stock on a computer spread sheet . |
| 22 | The air force , for example , keeps track of its stock on a $200m system built under contract by Computer Sciences Corporation in El Segundo , California , using IBM mainframe computers and off-the-shelf database software from Computer Associates in New York . |
| 23 | No one expected otherwise than to get second- or third-hand stock on a train running between Weymouth and Bristol , or between Manchester Victoria and Leeds , or from Glasgow to Stranraer . |
| 24 | The Bank customarily announces the issue of new stock on a Friday and dealings usually start in the secondary market on the following Thursday . |
| 25 | A couple have been robbed at gunpoint on a dream holiday to Disney World . |
| 26 | He and Jordan had known each other for some years , had worked together side by side on a case of armed robbery , and been friends . |
| 27 | At her side on a leash trotted a small , smooth-haired dog . |
| 28 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 29 | They set it tilted for a moment , leaning one side on a stone that Luch slipped under for them , while Ruari listened and sniffed and weighed the hive in his hand . |
| 30 | Three Commandos were perched side by side on a length of wood stretching the length of the latrine . |