Example sentences of "on a [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a smallholding it may be more practical to carry silage to the stock in yard or cowshed . |
| 2 | After temporary repairs the ship set out for the United States on a voyage it would not have made had the collision not occurred . |
| 3 | It ca n't afford to expend too much energy on a prey it 's not certain of catching . |
| 4 | Brightly coloured coats , shirts and trousers should be tailored to a tight fit ; an elaborately decorated scarf should encircle his waist and hold a dagger : ‘ With a monthly salary of one hundred rupees let him allot ten rupees for the belt and the embroidered badge if he spends fifty rupees on a fur it will not be prodigality . ’ |
| 5 | but I would imagine down on a floor it would look very , the diamonds would be too much if you |
| 6 | There is a mistaken impression amongst many anglers that when a fish bites on a link-leger it pulls the line through the swivel . |
| 7 | On a mortiser it is possible to tilt the piece to be mortised at an angle ; the same angled mortise can be produced by drilling out with a drill bit , and then cleaning up with a chisel . |
| 8 | And they came to the manufacturers and they said look we , there 's no good producing fifty dozen a week on a machine it 's not |
| 9 | Although in word-processing this key acts in the same way as the typewriter lever that moves the paper up one line , on a computer it is only used to force the word-processor to move one line — usually at the end of a paragraph . |
| 10 | If more than one LIFESPAN system is running simultaneously on a computer it will be necessary for each one to operate its own independent offline system using different media items . |
| 11 | On a Topper it 's very simple . |
| 12 | But if you go any other showing or on a weekend it 's three pound eighty . |
| 13 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 14 | On privatization , the government on 23 July backtracked on a proposal it had announced on July 13 for the creation of two large holding companies to combine Italy 's four main industrial and financial state concerns , together with some other interests at present controlled by the Treasury , in order to facilitate privatization . |
| 15 | If you 're on a motorway it 's , it 's maybe it 's before you , every mile on a motorway there is an S O S phone box okay ? |
| 16 | ‘ Not on a Sunday it is n't breakfast time . |
| 17 | In order to work on a DC it is necessary for all modules referenced to be in a single package . |
| 18 | In order to work on a DC it is necessary for all the modules referenced to be in a single package . |
| 19 | In order to work on a DC it is necessary for all the modules referenced to be in a single package . |
| 20 | If you go on a stat it says no airlines ! |
| 21 | When an image an ordinary magnifying glass forms on a screen it is not perfectly sharp all over , no matter how the focus is adjusted . |
| 22 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 23 | And erm y every time the cleaners came round on a Tuesday it 's not ev er everything had to be on the bed , including chairs er everything , you know , you had to have your desk |
| 24 | AMOCO , the US oil company , announced last night that it had found a new gasfield 125 miles east of Aberdeen while drilling on a prospect it has named Appleton . |
| 25 | The Chairman of the Board and er You 've Got Me Dangling on a String it 's radio Nottingham it 's Geoff Owen here till two this afternoon . |
| 26 | Whenever it falls on a Friday it 's always a very good birthday . |
| 27 | Saw all the logs of wood up , put it on a trailer it was half a mile away from the cottage , when we came to the cottage door , give a shout , they all came out one after the other , there was a chain , put it under the stairs and that was us fine for about three weeks |
| 28 | In fact if you concentrate attention on a habit it often causes the habitual behaviour pattern to break down . |
| 29 | if you go out on a charter it 's twelve hours you know , if you go for |
| 30 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |