Example sentences of "[noun pl] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research will examine the effect of marketing strategies and organisational characteristics on a company 's performance by means of a comparative study of British and German machine tool manufacturers . |
| 2 | The handsome verdite bath with six silver taps stands on a marble floor . |
| 3 | I charged across the sands , the dunes to my left moving by like stands on a racetrack . |
| 4 | Many new fans missed out on the spiky delights of their early material so Red Rhino did a mopping up exercise and put 12 songs on a mid-price album called ‘ Tommy ’ . |
| 5 | Today 's organised and systematic searches of the skies record far more red-shifts in a year or so than Dr Sandage has measured in his life — and have , in doing so , found strange currents , superimposed on the overall expansion , in which galaxies flow like twigs on a stream . |
| 6 | KEVIN KEEGAN and Glenn Hoddle took more than 28,000 fans on a trip down quality street yesterday . |
| 7 | Also , you could put your regular fans on a mailing list , writing to them every month to inform them of your next gigs and urging them to bring more of their friends along , in return for a back stage pass to Wembley when you play there ! |
| 8 | Now you can visit the Jorvik Viking Centre , step aboard a time car and be whisked back through the centuries on a journey to real-life Viking Britain . |
| 9 | There were seven centuries on a batsman 's paradise of a pitch , with John Stephenson and Nasser Hussain getting two of them as Essex romped home with eight overs remaining . |
| 10 | In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card . |
| 11 | Accommodation is in chalets on a B&B basis . |
| 12 | And though the Tory woman 's hat is a high art form now decayed and lost , as is that of the elegant crossing of Tory wives ' legs on a platform far above , and though the party has become more catholic in the women it attracts , there is a still a discernible type of Tory woman . |
| 13 | This is basically the same sort of thing as the filled legs on a horse that has stood in . |
| 14 | Smoke curled , wine flowed , and Lucy put her fabulous legs on a chair , smoking too , the most relaxed thing Jay had ever seen her do . |
| 15 | Political commentators noted , however , that there remained serious obstacles to co-operation between the two parties on a range of issues , not least the procedure for choosing a joint presidential candidate . |
| 16 | My right hon. Friends and I are currently seeking the views of interested parties on a package of measures designed to enhance environmental aspects of our support for hill farming . |
| 17 | On Nov. 23 the Italian Prime Minister , Giulio Andreotti , then president of the European Communities ( EC ) , and the Canadian Prime Minister , Brian Mulroney , signed a declaration in Rome which set relations between the two parties on a quasi-treaty footing providing for regular summit meetings and top-level ministerial consultations . |
| 18 | The re-presented programme was buttressed by the inclusion of opposition members in the Cabinet , by a political agreement between the BSP and opposition parties on a transition to democracy signed on Jan. 3 and by a government-employers-trade unions agreement on preserving social peace signed on Jan. 8 . |
| 19 | The first job is to recognize particular kinds of marks ; for example , the bricks in a wall , the hairs on a cat , the leaves on a tree . |
| 20 | The crowd was thick as hairs on a dog and we were unable to force our way through . |
| 21 | You 're worse shame to me than udders on a bull . |
| 22 | What the reader comes across are events , flashes , brief encounters , steps on a journey , though what the shape and direction of the journey itself might be is hard to say . |
| 23 | Thus the stages of the programme may be spaced almost exactly equally , like the steps on a ladder . |
| 24 | To do this , Security Toolkit/Unix automatically collects security data from one or more servers on a network . |
| 25 | The typical cage in today 's egg factory holds four or five hens on a 12- by 18-inch floor area . |
| 26 | Tolkien was , in short , trying to make Middle-earth say something , as well as conducting his readers on a tour of it . |
| 27 | They explained they were brothers on a walking tour . |
| 28 | Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere . |
| 29 | ( I bet Fay reads Gay Community News in Marks Brothers on a Saturday and his ambition is to review records for Cosmopolitan ) . |
| 30 | Although bonuses on a life policy can not be realised until the termination of the policy , life companies will normally lend money to clients against the security of those bonuses , quickly and at very competitive rates of interest . |