Example sentences of "a [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
| 2 | The imposition of a wordlist on the system forbids the selection of semantically invalid morpheme combinations ( e.g. underbelieve ) . |
| 3 | ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’ |
| 4 | Tyndale 's main problem for the rest of his life was to find a base on the Continent where there was a printing press , where its use by him would be tolerated by the authorities , and from which his translations and publications could be sent to England , either through sales at the great annual book fair at Frankfurt or by river and sea , hidden among the goods of friendly merchants . |
| 5 | But still the Peace People , or The Community of the Peace People , to give it its full title , continues its work from a base on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast . |
| 6 | It is by now quite well known ( certainly it will have come to the attention of those who attended the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 ) that the European Court 's method of interpreting Community legal texts is primarily teleological , that is to say the interpretation of a provision on the basis of its object and purpose . |
| 7 | The principle of effective judicial protection is expressed by a provision on the three Sex Equality Directives ( 75/117 on equal pay , 176/207 on equal treatment in employment and 79/7 on equal treatment in social security ) which requires Member States to introduce into their internal legal order such measures as are needed to enable all persons who consider themselves wronged by discrimination ‘ to pursue their claims by judicial process ’ . |
| 8 | I was on day duty with Jimmy Coutts and I was peacefully plotting a chart on the far side of the chart table , which was hidden from the entry door by the screen which ran nearly the length of the room . |
| 9 | I notice we have a chart on the back of the door here as well a circle measured off in angles and er this is lovely it 's got Venus |
| 10 | The shock move follows his refusal to speak at a trial on the fate of the banned Communist Party . |
| 11 | I played him by the light of the moon until he was sufficiently exhausted to be manoeuvred into a bucket on the end of a stout rope . |
| 12 | If that is true , he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end . |
| 13 | This is but a stumble on the way , we shall make good what we have vowed , in spite of all . ’ |
| 14 | He had to be seen in Frank Spencer 's latest job , as a window-cleaner 's assistant , in a cradle on the side of an office building . |
| 15 | He assured Field that it was possible to lay a cable on the ocean floor . |
| 16 | ‘ Or a resort on the Costa Brava . ’ |
| 17 | Combine the great cities of Rome , Florence and Venice with each other , or with a resort on the Neapolitan Riviera or the rolling rural countryside of Tuscany and Umbria . |
| 18 | Greg 's first round 74 had not done any damage , though , and he went on to inflict a body-blow on the course , the rest of the field , and the title . |
| 19 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 20 | In any organization there will be both a leading function and a function on the rise . |
| 21 | Randolph Henry Ash 's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt , a meditation on the myths of Resurrection . |
| 22 | At the former there is a mini retrospective of the artist 's ‘ accumulations ’ ( earliest from 1962 , latest from last year ) while at the latter there is ‘ Cycles ’ not a meditation on the passing stages of an artist 's life but , more prosaically , about the leg-propelled two-wheeled conveyance . |
| 23 | Such a one is bidden to " preye " " seke " " aske " and " knokke at the dore " in the certainty that " he schal come … and coumforte thy desolate soule " as the Holy Ghost came to the apostles : The book ends with a meditation on the sacrament as the focus for the experience of the transforming energy of God released in time at the Incarnation . |
| 24 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 25 | Ltd. a case on the corresponding section to s.92(1) ( c ) in the 1875 Act . |
| 26 | The notion of legitimate expectation concerns whether the applicant has a case on the merits , but the claim that such an expectation exists , provided it is not prima facie ludicrous , will give the claimant standing to argue the merits of the claim . |
| 27 | For a case on the startling effect of a deed of variation made for CGT purposes see Marshall v Kerr [ 1993 ] STC 360 . |
| 28 | Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side . |
| 29 | Thanks to Charlie boy , they 'd been able to splash a bit on the wedding and Marilyn could have the white satin and the four bridesmaids she 'd set her heart on . |
| 30 | My mind went back a couple of months to when Charlie 'd asked me if I 'd like to make a bit on the side . |