Example sentences of "on a [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | He slapped on a little of a new musk aftershave that was supposed to make him irresistible — not too much , he hated obviousness in men . |
| 3 | where they 're talking about spending money on a one of these old old cage drillers , tooling it up to drill cages at . |
| 4 | Between plunging valleys , on a bareback of hill |
| 5 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 6 | See what happened overleaf when we went north to practise our own floral wizardry on a few of those bright young Mancunians … |
| 7 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 8 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 9 | So in our search for innovation we decided , without much conviction , to concentrate on a few of the rapidly developing fields , that is on the current fashions such as biotechnology , new materials , lasers and the like , but the emphasis was to be on supporting the research whose main objective was to improve understanding in these fields rather than on products . |
| 10 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |
| 11 | BOURSAULT : Belemnite chalk on a few of the very lowest slopes , mainly sand , sandstone , clay and lignites mixed with various calcareous deposits . |
| 12 | V. GENT enlightens us on a few of the problems he 's had to deal with over the counter . |
| 13 | The farmer and his neighbours were all friends so it was just a case of asking them to keep an eye on their moggies , and spying on a few of the plumper-looking ones — successful hunters , we assumed . |
| 14 | If it occurs anywhere in Offa 's reign it does so as Of Rx A on a few of Offa 's coins by the London moneyer , Alhmund . |
| 15 | The only contemporary image of Charlemagne is on a few of his coins . |
| 16 | Now fill me in on a few of these files . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines . |
| 18 | There 's that fact that the Conservatives were on a high of course . |
| 19 | Development on a third of the barrier coast has been controlled by law since 1982 ; no federal flood insurance is available for building on controlled beaches . |
| 20 | Usually too , the European took the best land as in Algeria , for example , where 20,000 European farms were established on a third of the cultivable land ( about 2.5m. ha. ) while some 630,000 Algerian peasants were confined to 5m. ha . |