Example sentences of "on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help can be summoned from ACET or other services merely by pressing a button on a pendant worn around the neck . |
| 2 | Work on a medical ward and as a health visitor followed until in 1988 he became a Neighbourhood Nurse Manager for Wandsworth Health Authority . |
| 3 | Catherine , who is on a three-month contract with ACET , is looking forward to caring for people with HIV/AIDS . |
| 4 | 15 villagers including three minors were killed and 19 others , including several children , wounded when soldiers opened fire on a crowd of unarmed people on 2/12/90 . |
| 5 | Santiago , Chile : On a warm autumn evening in 1990 international rock star Sting dances on stage with a group of Chilean mothers and grandmothers of the ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 6 | He stated that during this period he was interrogated and beaten on a daily basis . |
| 7 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 8 | ‘ When you 've done research on a country for years , you also get a sense of which groups have vested interests or political agendas , who can be trusted and who has given us reliable information , ’ said Smart . |
| 9 | The repression continues today , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 10 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 11 | We met on a wild , windy day near the Ferry in a port on the South Coast . |
| 12 | His note consisted of a few words , impersonal , noncommittal , on a tiny scrap of paper written with a burned matchstick . |
| 13 | He wrote that he was lying on a concrete floor ; he mentioned acute rheumatism , chronic bronchitis ; ‘ My ribs are tight , I have a lot of fever , I cough all the time . |
| 14 | For a woman , Kim Hyun-hui , was arrested and was to receive the death sentence for planting a bomb on a Korean Boeing 707 , killing all 115 people . |
| 15 | I am writing as I 'm puzzled as to why you have released Kim Hyun-hui who planted a bomb on a plane and killed 115 people but have imprisoned a girl for taking part in a peace march . |
| 16 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 17 | From Germany there is The End of the History of Art ; from Britain a group of essays describe The New Art History ; from the United States has recently come Rethinking Art History : meditations on a coy science ; and from Canada there is a forthright title Art History : its use and abuse . |
| 18 | The stress of the book falls on a viewer 's encounter with a work of art , and how a prior reading of a piece of art criticism can improve that encounter . |
| 19 | When she came to writing for her college project , she found other material ; this will enable her to enjoy the work more fully on a second visit . |
| 20 | Lee makes firm judgements , as in this comment on a cave painting from the seventh century : ‘ The most famous figure at Ajanta is in Cave 1 and has been often described as the ‘ Beautiful Bodhisattva ’ . |
| 21 | In an art museum , the works may be described from room to room , whether in a book or on a sound guide . |
| 22 | Another book about the age of Dürer , but on a different topic , is The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany , by Michael Baxandall , published in 1980 . |
| 23 | A book on a single painter , for example , is a monograph . |
| 24 | The potential reader of a monograph on a minor artist may not find a book easily , but there are plenty of publications on Leonardo , Rembrandt or Picasso . |
| 25 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 26 | These tints are balanced by a very little warm colour on a road and gravel pit in the foreground , a single house in the middle distance , and the scarlet jacket of a labourer . |
| 27 | Some compensation may exist in sketches and preliminary drawings , where they exist , and which are easier to study on a page . |
| 28 | This is a fine opportunity for a sustained piece of writing , calling on a range of historical and artistic data , and including the art critical views not only of the author , but also criticism written at other periods . |
| 29 | As a book on a single subject , there is a good chance that the need for description will be reduced by extensive illustration , while a favourable judgement on the work has already been implied by the choice of the subject for a monograph . |
| 30 | His decisive opinions about the correct attributions of authorship in pictures were founded on a personal method , partly inspired by his medical training . |