Example sentences of "on a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to communicate with each other on a regularly basis over all the issues that have been raised . |
| 2 | But to end on a slightly alarmist note , they may not have much more time than that . |
| 3 | Between October and December when they were not competing in the Hamble Winter Series or jockeying against other IOR racers , the team was out everyday , practising manoeuvres aboard Oracle Arrow on a windward-leeward course at the mouth of the Hamble . |
| 4 | Would she grow up into a street urchin , plimsolls , no socks , grimy tee shirt , with a London accent grating on a nicely-brought-up ear ? |
| 5 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
| 6 | It is not far-fetched to say , as Charles Moskos of Northwestern University argues , that campaigners for gays in the ranks wanted to use the armed forces as a social-engineering experiment ; and that they wanted to impose their values on a supposedly irredentist segment of American society . |
| 7 | It had been in touch with air control in Athens and had been instructed to alter course over the island of Amorgós — that 's about forty miles north-east of here — and proceed on a roughly north-north-west course . |
| 8 | Stars n Bars has proved so popular that the series will run-on into 1993 , but on a bi-monthly basis , starting in the February 1993 FlyPast . |
| 9 | Throughout the year the Committee has continued to meet on a fortnightly basis to consider not just those issues referred to above but many others . |
| 10 | This is done on Saturdays and Wednesday evenings — all day Saturday and a Wednesday evening , on a fortnightly basis . |
| 11 | There is the hypothesis that these input systems do not themselves fully specify the information we derive from them , that there is subconscious guesswork involved in acts of seeing , hearing and language processing : the mind is constrained to operate on a least effort principle , imposing the first interpretation it can , commensurate with providing adequate information ( SPERBER and WILSON 1986 ) . |
| 12 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 13 | Position a small blob of red icing on the face for a nose , and cut out and press on a smily mouth . |
| 14 | Saturday 's other meeting at Towcester hinges on a 3pm inspection today . |