Example sentences of "an [noun sg] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that the foam comes high up on the neck which is possible an advantage on the back as extra protection to the base of the neck is offered though around the front it feels rather bulky . |
| 2 | The cutting , too , has meaning : fast , significant , hinting , pausing for an instant on an idea then darting away as if to shrink from a risky suggestion . |
| 3 | The sun trembled for an instant on the edge of the distant hills , then started to sink behind them . |
| 4 | It is equally important , however , to use the basic analysis underlying the location of an SBU on the matrix in order to improve subjective assessments of required SBU yields . |
| 5 | too high a price for finance , or an inability on the part of companies to find enough funds from their own resources , and if so , what can be done about it ? |
| 6 | I saw it pissing off with an apprentice on the way down to the start at Chester . |
| 7 | The document proposes that each member of a partnership be assessed personally on their share of the partnership profits , rather than on an assessment on the firm for which all are jointly and severally liable . |
| 8 | It is the staff 's role to give an assessment on the girl and her basic care of the baby and her anticipation of its needs . |
| 9 | Consequently , the enterprise of building an ethic on the imperative ‘ Know ’ could hardly be understood except as an attempt to deduce principles of conduct from the propositions known , vulnerable to standard criticisms of the Naturalistic Fallacy to which we have offered no answer . |
| 10 | This concept implies peripheralisation , an existence on the borders of society , where there is a lack of participation in the urban social structure . |
| 11 | The Cinque Ports received an admiral on the pattern of Bayonne 's admiral , created in 1295 , and ships from Bayonne brought supplies of wine , corn , flour and other victuals to Edward I 's army in Wales during March and April 1283 . |
| 12 | This point can be proved by an admission on the part of the defendant-on enquiries at the DVLC , Swansea whose records can be produced in evidence ; and by an admission on the part of the owner where he is n't the defendant etc . |
| 13 | This point can be proved by an admission on the part of the defendant-on enquiries at the DVLC , Swansea whose records can be produced in evidence ; and by an admission on the part of the owner where he is n't the defendant etc . |
| 14 | An admission on the part of the defendant would also help the prosecution case . |
| 15 | In a few cases where a horn has been removed this can be proved by stating so or by an admission on the part of the defendant . |
| 16 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 17 | He still wore his hair in a pony-tail , complete with ribbon , and wore an ankh on a chain around his neck , but beneath the veneer of a harmless flower-child gone to seed he was as acquisitive as a bower-bird . |
| 18 | The promenade was empty of people at such an hour on a Sunday . |
| 19 | Fifty miles an hour on a bike ? |
| 20 | A driver who towed another car at a hundred miles an hour on a motorway has admitted reckless driving . |
| 21 | Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday . |
| 22 | He goes out for about an hour on a Saturday if I , if he 's forced out I said , out oh get out please yeah they 're not the ideal things that they should be wearing , but , like because the |
| 23 | Already I have the feeling that I 'm a bit too thin — that Anna , whose house I am at , will say that I was never fat in the first place : ‘ Oh , you 're all right , skinny ribs ’ ; that mixture of dismissal and envy she uses , excluding me from the problems of other girls , from real problems like her fat thighs , or her backside that could do with ‘ half an hour on a bacon slicer ’ , as she puts it . |
| 24 | Well , they run for an hour on a battery without pedalling , three hours if you pedal . |
| 25 | And he says , when he gets it up to sixty mile an hour on t' motorway it 's still vibrating . |
| 26 | Er , and there are extra , at least an hour on every night he said , so er |
| 27 | This morning , heading into Gloucestershire on the M5 , it was doing a more sedate 35 miles an hour on the back of a low loader . |
| 28 | twenty mile an hour on the A forty seven this is where you get a big , some big lorry come along and go and land up my fucking arse |
| 29 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 30 | And I said , or he said , I spent half an hour on the phone , trying to study , he said , she was from Ireland , he said , I could n't understand a bloody word she was saying . |