Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While thirteen out of twenty middle-class women ( sixty-five per cent ) ‘ mind ’ describing themselves as housewives on a form , only eight out of twenty working-class women ( forty per cent ) state this objection . |
| 2 | Keith Jenkins forgets about cholesterol on a Normandy cookery course |
| 3 | Perhaps such abbreviations of thought are inevitable in the limited space available for text on a display label . |
| 4 | ‘ You wo n't get the AA to come for hours on a day like this . ’ |
| 5 | There 's no industry that 's erm , as heavily protected as er , as agriculture on a world scale . |
| 6 | With hill-grazing rights , there is a place for sheep on a smallholding . |
| 7 | To blend colours on icing , as for instance on a sky background , apply the colours with a paint brush and then , while they are still wet , brush lightly across where they meet so that they merge subtly into each other . |
| 8 | Broadcasting regulations prevent anyone appealing for money on a programme like that , but he sidestepped the rules very smartly . |
| 9 | MARK ROBSON , the winger signed by Tottenham from Exeter for £50,000 in July 1987 , has signed for Watford on a month 's loan with a view to a permanent transfer . |
| 10 | The data will be used for research on a range of topics including the effectiveness of secondary schools , local authority differences , parental choice of schooling , the problems of rural sparsely populated areas , the school curriculum , the transition from school and entry into the labour market or further education , and the effect of policy initiatives such as the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative , the Youth Training Scheme and Scottish National Certificate . |
| 11 | Exceptional costs also provide for losses on a paper mill contract in Jacksonville , Florida . |
| 12 | The idea was that particles like the proton and the neutron could be regarded as waves on a string . |
| 13 | The Department stated : ’ In anticipation of the proposed revision to the regulation , in some parts of the country ’ — the Minister has mentioned this — ’ campaigns were organised which resulted in non-specific applications for review on a scale which would have flooded the benefit system . ’ |
| 14 | Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive , but the occasion had not been very successful . |
| 15 | Digital maps and related products , such as block diagrams , can be displayed either as images on a graphics terminal or in hard-copy form . |
| 16 | Airline stocks , which have been surging for months on a series of high-stakes takeovers , declined after one potential target , US Air , declared lower than expected earnings . |
| 17 | I first heard about Hampden on a radio programme when I was a boy off sick from school and I 've been interested in him and his life ever since . |
| 18 | Yet they enjoy none of the advantages of debentureholders ; they receive a return on their money only if profits are earned ( and not necessarily even then ) , they rank after creditors on a winding-up and they have less effective remedies against the company . |
| 19 | Otherwise they risk the same fate as 20 officer cadets who were ill , two seriously , after canoeing on a lake in Leek , Staffordshire , this summer . |
| 20 | In those days trainers looked like window cleaners and the likelihood was that when they were n't looking after players on a Saturday afternoon , they might well shine windows for a living . |
| 21 | The cleaning group usually meet after Mass on a Tuesday and Thursday and a few more volunteers would be greatly appreciated — even for one hour ! |
| 22 | A Mathematics class working through sums with half the children in a state of total incomprehension and getting all the examples wrong , while others spend fruitless time doing sum after sum on a process which they had mastered weeks previously ; |
| 23 | It was just after noon on a Friday when I arrived so the weekend exodus was just starting . |
| 24 | TODDLER Peter Marriott saved his father 's life by calling for help on a CB radio . |
| 25 | ‘ Forty — for lunch on a Wednesday ? ’ he exclaimed furiously . |
| 26 | Perhaps more significantly , however , it is where she paid for lunch on a number of occasions with James Gilbey , her swooning suitor of The Squidgy Tapes fame . |
| 27 | After convalescence abroad in 1885 he became incumbent of White Roding , Essex , and was invited to serve as consultant on a supplement to Hymns Ancient and Modern , published in 1889 . |
| 28 | A writ has been issued against Mr Scott , claiming he failed to pay £68,000 for work on a nursing home at Peterlee . |
| 29 | Having impounded these two sets for the time , we give our full attention to such influences as the inducements which good fishing wages will offer to sailors to stay in their fishing homes for a year or two , instead of applying for work on a ship . |
| 30 | The criteria above appear to imply fairly well-defined tasks , but their attainment can be checked in different ways ; for example by direct questions or by implication during work on a task which involves the criterion as a subtask . |