Example sentences of "[noun sg] on a [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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1 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
2 | These are questions which were first posed over fifty years ago , but they have obviously made little lasting impact on a literature where the expenditure flows depicted in elaborations of the model have been the principal focus of attention . |
3 | It was common for the storage building to be accompanied by a pair of kilns and a complete range of such structures might be erected adjacent to a very long storage building on a site where the cultivation of hops was undertaken intensively ( eg , at the hop farm of a brewery . ) |
4 | Four fourball matches were played over a gusty , grey Royal Aberdeen course on a day when the greens were like glass and the rough was long . |
5 | Not only was he shaken and upset by the accident , but , worse for him , his favourite race car suffered severe damage on a day when the Marlboro McLaren Honda team endured a series of setbacks to their own hopes . |
6 | The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him . |
7 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
8 | If the accused enters a country mansion which is open only on certain days and takes a painting on a day when the house is open to the public he is guilty . |
9 | This was encouraged by governments and energy agencies , keen for both strategic , economic and political reasons to reduce the heavy dependence on a fuel where the bulk of reserves are concentrated in the Middle East , in the hands of a cartel awaiting only a tightening of supply to raise prices to 1979 levels and possibly above . |