Example sentences of "an [noun sg] on [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 2 | I think they thought they had an alcoholic on their hands . ’ |
| 3 | puts an aerial on your roof and they knock a hole in your roof then presumably they 're liable for the damage |
| 4 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 5 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 6 | Twenty eight year old Andrew Hayton approached at around sixty miles an hour on his Yamaha motorbike but did not slow down . |
| 7 | The British Horse Society , too , are bringing out an update on their Bed and Breakfast for Horses booklet . |
| 8 | How about an update on our CAPTAIN AMERICA versus C&A story ? |
| 9 | Is Shaun there please , it 's Wayne , how dare you , hello , hello , I 'm sorry to trouble you there 's an ostrich on your phone line |
| 10 | In the event , they entrusted Alexander Mackendrick with a colourful story , Sammy Going South ( 1963 , A Boy Ten Feet Tall in US ) , about the journey of a small boy , orphaned by an air-raid on his Port Said home , who crosses Africa on his own to find relatives in the south . |
| 11 | There 's an ambulance on its way too , and we 've informed the Met . |
| 12 | Police have named the six people travelling in a car that crashed with an ambulance on its way to an emergency call . |
| 13 | To look for her was an intrusion on her privacy . |
| 14 | He says they 've been hoodwinked and the noise is an intrusion on their lives . |
| 15 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 16 | In 1971 he was also angered by a visit made by the Shah 's sister Princess Ashraf , to China , which he felt was an intrusion on his turf . |
| 17 | They have an effect on their departments and their university as a whole , because comparisons which affect funding levels are now drawn with other institutions . |
| 18 | The same macho attitudes have an effect on their family life . |
| 19 | Where drug actions are known , they have been found to exert an effect on the body 's metabolic processes — that is , our inner chemical workings — inhibiting or stimulating enzyme function or having an effect on their control mechanisms . |
| 20 | Where a tank is sited can have an effect on its welfare . |
| 21 | So a poor diet can eventually have an effect on your hair condition . |
| 22 | Now when you have unpleasant subjective feelings there will often be an effect on your state , as regards your attempts to cope with your environment . |
| 23 | Erm as far as teaching employment goes , full or part time teaching , supply teaching in erm a local authority school , or in independent schools which participate in a teachers superannuation scheme , will actually have an effect on your pension . |
| 24 | In particular , as the journalist , Mr. Clark states , they have an effect on his daughter , who is 13 . |
| 25 | Although Gordonstoun and Australia had an effect on his character , it was at Cambridge that he began to develop into the man he now is . |
| 26 | Today 's four withdrawals , coming on top of earlier drop-outs by Sheffield Wednesday 's Paul Warhurst and Arsenal 's Alan Smith , leave Taylor short of cover but will not have too drastic an effect on his team strategy for the Group Two game . |
| 27 | The people explained their action as an attempt on their part to adhere to the principle of non-violence , but , as Gandhi pointed out , such action could more easily be interpreted as cowardice than non-violence . |
| 28 | However , Mohtashemi 's election to the Majlis in the December 1989 by-elections [ see pp. 37137-38 ] represented an attempt on his part to make a political comeback . |
| 29 | There was an attempt on his life while he was bathing , but the would-be assassin was foiled by the shrill , warning cry of a kingfisher and the quick action of the bath girl , Zuzana . |
| 30 | The colony 's authorities are privately furious Newall was again able to make an attempt on his life under the noses of his guards . |