Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considering the rock at Tremadog feels so solid on a small scale , it 's rather a shame that it has a large scale tendency to become part of the scree at the foot of the crag ! |
| 2 | The time saved could be spent adding features like voice recognition that are only possible on a more advanced platform such as PowerPC . |
| 3 | Some respondents reported that a number of applications were only possible on a microcomputer . |
| 4 | ( During the third century they were celebrating Easter and Pentecost , which were inherited and then modified from Judaism and so dependent on a lunar year . |
| 5 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 6 | The growth in the use of microcomputers in organizations means that people have become much less dependent on a central computer , which need only be used for large scale operations . |
| 7 | Lynne McBean , head of general education at the college , said : ‘ With this qualification , a dock or port worker , for example , is less dependent on a single employer , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Such an economy was highly dependent on a vast mass of skilled labour and a greater horde of the lesser skilled . |
| 9 | Success in computation relating to time intervals is highly dependent on a number of factors and there fore is variable . |
| 10 | Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI . |
| 11 | Any assessment of Hickey 's career and of his personality is almost entirely dependent on a single source provided by the subject himself , the 742 pages of memoirs which Hickey wrote shortly after his return to Britain . |
| 12 | Through sorcery , the Piaroa shaman leader is highly violent on a daily basis toward the end of protecting his community from the dangers of disease and death , both being considered to be attacks by cannibalistic beings from both this and other worlds . |
| 13 | In the larger States contacts of this direct and relatively informal kind between ruler and ruled were obviously impossible on a large scale . |
| 14 | You can get so bored on a Megadrive man , clocking up all the |
| 15 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 16 | However , the occasional long journey has revealed some of the Metro 's hidden talents : ‘ It has a surprisingly spacious interior and is extremely comfortable on a long haul . |
| 17 | Readings which are obviously aberrant on a graph are indicated in the table by ‘ ? ’ . |
| 18 | You 're welcome to borrow my car while I 'm away , but I do n't relish the thought of you driving yourself all that way back alone late on a Saturday night ! ’ |
| 19 | Radio York , that 's where you 're tuned , the B B C station for North Yorkshire and er James Whale is here on the wireless with you bright and e I 'm amazed I can get up after being up so late on a Friday night , I 'm amazed I can be in here this early on a Friday , and somebody said well it is twelve o'clock . |
| 20 | Attractive as this new programme was as a response to the requirements of " relevance " , and the need to fight off incursions by scientific and technological education , it remained none the less vulnerable on a number of counts . |
| 21 | Egypt , Malaysia and Thailand also look a lot less poor on a PPP basis . |
| 22 | Studies by McLeod , Becker , and Byrnes ( 1974 ) and Iyengar and Kinder ( 1987 ) , for example , suggest that the media set the agenda for only a part of their audience : those highly reliant on a particular news source , those low in political involvement and information , and those who are relatively inattentive to the news generally — in short , those who are marginal to politics . |
| 23 | There are thousands of buildings that despite being interesting and attractive — and perhaps important on a local scale — are not ‘ listable ’ in themselves ; that is to say , they are not of sufficient architectural or historic interest to merit individual protection . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it leaves a number of important questions unanswered : ( 1 ) Why was the early universe so hot ? ( 2 ) Why is the universe so uniform on a large scale ? |
| 25 | Since registration is only compulsory on a purchase for value it is n't necessary to register the devolution of unregistered property on a death . |
| 26 | Previously only available on a made-to-order basis , Alpha is well-known for its high quality and reliability . |
| 27 | What is more or less manageable on an average wage , like paying the TV licence or buying shoes , causes a major cash flow crisis when you 're living on supplementary benefit . |
| 28 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |
| 29 | There 's nought so bleak on a winter 's night |
| 30 | And they argue that the eventual privatisation of BCI , among others , will make the state even less keen on a big bail-out . |