Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] on the " in BNC.

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1 How would old Carlo react to a kick on the ankle , her teeth in his wrist .
2 Such pressure on places in both the acute and community sectors might in turn lead to a squeeze on the provision of respite care .
3 You can also map almost anything to a key-combination on the keyboard — how does grab you for putting your Word for Windows document into 3 columns ?
4 A temporary vang , taken to a pad-eye on the deck , then ripped the eye and a part of the deck away .
5 Take the right fork to a clearing on the right of the road and take track on the left .
6 A lease can be made from year to year subject to a fetter on the right of the landlord to determine the lease before the expiry of five years unless the war ends .
7 A lease might be made from year to year subject to a fetter on the right of the landlord to determine the lease before the war ends .
8 On the failure to honour this promise , the bank claimed that they were entitled to a lien on the goods by virtue of the agreement in the letter .
9 At a synapse , transmitter released from the presynaptic side binds to a receptor on the postsynaptic side , resulting in a change in the electrical properties of the postsynaptic membrane and a small flow of current around it .
10 Eee-Eee went to a pipe on the wall and waited .
11 In a letter of 1867 to a friend on the death of the latter 's brother he writes : " You have experienced at first hand … why our Schopenhauer exalts suffering and sorrow as a glorious fate , as the deuteros pious [ second way ] to the negation of the will … ,
12 The coincidental presence of the Prince of Wales in Broadstairs for a brief private visit to a friend on the same evening converted it into a two-paragraph story .
13 ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work .
14 ‘ At first the pilots and navigators will mostly go their separate ways and concentrate on the subjects peculiar to their own calling , but after about a week they will be crewed-up — one pilot , one nav/observer , and one nav/plotter to a crew on the bomber side and a pilot and a navigator on the PR — and from then on will attend lectures and do drills as crew members .
15 The multi-national task force in the Gulf has diverted an Iraqi ship to a port on the Ammani coast for breaking sanctions .
16 The third page of this letter is devoted to a discussion on the naming of the Indian Pink [ Dianthus chinensis ] mentioned in Alston 's Essays and here Miller quoted from many sources including the History of Carolina , the Flora Virginica and a Doctor Brown writing in The Gentleman 's Magazine , December 1751 .
17 Now can we move to a discussion on the criteria and I 'll ask Mr to open on that .
18 This led to a discussion on the EC wishing to abolish quarantine altogether , and Robert grew heated as he spoke of the risks .
19 He reached his hand inside each bird to strip its innards away before tossing the empty carcass on to a pile on the ground .
20 Having said that , he enjoyed the depth of conviction to be heard at a conventicle and slipped away to a service on the muirs above the village as often as he was able to do so .
21 Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame .
22 These results indicate that the residual liquid junction potential ( E j ) =E j ( gall bladder bile ) -E j ( calibr ) is -1.3 mV corresponding to a bias on the measured Ca 2 + activity of -9.5% .
23 And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess .
24 And then there was a certain place where we would go to a breakfast on the train .
25 In one recent debate , five Law Lords , in an unprecedented way , spoke against a legislative proposal which provided that in assessing damages payable to a widow on the death of her husband , her remarriage or prospects of remarriage should not be taken into account .
26 Since fusion , courts have been able to administer both law and equity but the distinction between , on the one hand , the costs to be allowed to a successful mortgagee/litigant and , on the other hand , the costs that should be allowed to a mortgagee on the taking of an account in a redemption or foreclosure action remains a real one .
27 to a structure on the hilltop :
28 The heavy material was carted down to a quay on the lake shore , adjacent to Coniston Hall , which had been specially constructed by the company .
29 My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses .
30 Generally speaking , re-sit paper erm will contain at least one question very similar to a question on the first paper .
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