Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came Yet , with a case balanced on one shoulder . |
| 2 | It 's quite a bit to do on one day , to go and do four . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'm a bit torn on that . |
| 4 | Yeah but I got a bit stuck on that one |
| 5 | Chanan has questioned the basic analysis of national needs employed by the DES , as we have already mentioned ; he goes on to propose a curriculum based on personal values . |
| 6 | One of the three members had been unable to attend the meeting at which these appeals were heard and a decision made on all the appeals . |
| 7 | Erm our members and the County members have come to a a a judgement and a decision based on all that information , all the information that you you have just mentioned to this E I P . |
| 8 | More directors of trusts are indicating a willingness to draw on these reserves to maintain dividends or meet commitments . |
| 9 | It should encourage a willingness to engage on common ground , where ‘ meaning ’ theist and ‘ meaning ’ atheist conduct an argument in which each understands the other and indeed may convert the other . |
| 10 | A course based on thirteen video episodes concerning an imaginary British electronic and engineering firm . |
| 11 | The idea for such a course came from Prof , member of the Christian Aid Board and Professor of Religious Studies at Leeds at a Board meeting on 2 Nov 1987 . |
| 12 | Matters deteriorated , to the point that at a board meeting on 25 July 1984 , Fields felt obliged to bring his solicitor with him , to sit like a boxing second , while his record with the company was contested . |
| 13 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 14 | A drug acting on one set of synapses can have secondary and tertiary effects all over the place . |
| 15 | CD44 , a proteoglycan expressed on many cells , including endothelium , has been implicated in T-cell adhesion to endothelial cells . |
| 16 | A difficulty arises on various occasions in connection with numbers in the Bible . |
| 17 | In a judgement given on 14th May 1992 , the House of Lords allowed Johnson Matthey 's appeal that the £50 million payment in 1984 to its former subsidiary , Johnson Matthey Bankers Limited , was a revenue payment and eligible for tax relief . |
| 18 | Many taxonomists have preferred to avoid a terminology based on uncertain homolgies , so that a large number of special anatomical terms are now applied to the external genitalia of insects ( Tuxen , 1970 ) . |
| 19 | ( There was a long correspondence in a camp newspaper about the evil effects which female parts in a play had on such people . ) |
| 20 | Had a horse slipped on those treacherous Frizingley cobbles — something she always dreaded — and broken a leg ? |
| 21 | The first version comprises a repository based on Portable Common Tools Environment technology from GIE Emeraude , Louveciennes , and the Neutral Information Model , which in turn is based largely on the Exchange repository interfacing technology from Software One Ltd , Marlow , UK It also includes a control integration system based on IBM Corp 's SDE WorkBench/6000 , which is derived from Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench . |
| 22 | The unconventional methods might raise an eyebrow but Wimbledon are a club struggling on meagre gates and forever forced to sell their best players to survive . |
| 23 | The Privy Seal is a seal fastened on royal documents . |
| 24 | LIFE OR DEATH : A farmworker looks on astonished as a jet pilot shoots out of his cockpit at 300 feet . |
| 25 | Only recently — a prank played on some young man by his friends . |
| 26 | ACFA membership is biased towards patients attending larger treatment centres where there is awareness of the cystic fibrosis trust , but it contains a substantial proportion of patients who would not be included in a study based on large clinics . |
| 27 | Although we must recognize the limits of a study focusing on one city , the results are , perhaps , startling , and of considerable interest . |
| 28 | In cases where a papilla arises on two adjacent areas the m is split into 2n 's with a comma between them and a linking bar above them . |
| 29 | He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation . |
| 30 | Tyler is first mentioned ( in conjunction with a John Rackstraw , presumably the man later known as Jack Straw ) in a reference to a command issued on 13 June ( 11 , pp.145–7 ) . |