Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also you struck a whacking blow on his behalf against the sort of people he particularly disliked . ’ |
| 2 | The localised heat draws oils from the skin and blood to the surface ; over the years permanently dilated blood vessels appear and brown pigmentation due to leaks from those vessels appear in a reticular pattern on the shins of old people . |
| 3 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 4 | The testing boom has been resisted vigorously by civil liberties groups and trade unions , who view this aspect of the ‘ war on drugs ’ as a frontal assault on a worker 's dignity and entitlement to due process . |
| 5 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 6 | Governments over the '60s and '70s , as I suggested earlier , have not had the capacity , even when they have had the will , to launch a frontal assault on the organised working class and force through a radical restructuring in spite of its resistance . |
| 7 | However , it was only in September 1937 , at the Party Rally , that he returned to a frontal attack on Jewry , framed in general terms , in connection with his main attack on Bolshevism , which he explicitly dubbed a Jewish creation . |
| 8 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 9 | Political prudence and the dangers of a frontal attack on the Church restrained them to the sale of common lands and the abolition of civil entails , ‘ pulling up by the roots the tree which bears such bitter fruits ’ . |
| 10 | Nizan felt an urgent need to liquidate his bourgeois past , to engage in a frontal attack on the source of his own alienation . |
| 11 | It is highly courageous to launch a frontal attack on the main lines and the main structure of nature , and cowardly to advance by aspects and details ; art is really a battle . |
| 12 | Some approach the canonical figure of Degas with a frontal attack on the patriarchal structure of art history itself ( most vocally expressed by the feminist critiques of Pollock and Callen ) , others offer more tentative snipes at aspects and details of individual works . |
| 13 | Owners of a historic building on a valuable site who are determined to realize substantial sums on the property often allow the building to decay during the years of indecision . |
| 14 | A typically Thatcherite product — classless , consumerist , guiltless — The Face always had a left-liberal stance on racism , feminism and homosexuality . |
| 15 | They seemed disappointed to hear that we had had such a pleasant day on the far bank . |
| 16 | The Men were progressing up towards them and were just about to reach Woil who , as usual , was swaying back and forth on his stance with a pleasant expression on his face as he intoned , ‘ Lovely Men , so good to me , so generous to Woil who is good and never tries to hurt you . |
| 17 | He had a pleasant apartment on the outskirts of Moscow with his young wife and baby daughter , and hoped to achieve a small dacha . |
| 18 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 19 | It also enjoyed a pleasant situation on the south bank of the River Swale , close to a probable bridge carrying Dere Street . |
| 20 | A thin cream called red bole is then painted over the gesso to provide a rich base on which to lay the leaf The area to be covered is then dampened with a very diluted solution of rabbit skin glue , before the gold leaf is carefully positioned and laid down . |
| 21 | Moreover , Kemp hints at the diverse uses of perspective which offer a rich commentary on European history . |
| 22 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , in life as in architecture , does not want to reproduce the old , but his house is specifically contrasted with Grandcourt 's Diplow , ‘ a comparatively landless place which had come into the family from a rich lawyer on the female side who wore the perruque of the Restoration ’ . |
| 23 | At a Franco-German summit on Sept. 18 , 1990 , immediately before German unification , France confirmed that it would reduce the 46,000 French troops stationed in Germany to 26,000 within two years [ see p. 37718 ] . |
| 24 | A smooth blue using the half-butt , a character-building cut on the pink , and then it 's all down to the black . |
| 25 | The efforts of the Minister of War , D. A. Miliutin , to take advantage of Emancipation and introduce universal conscription and a reserve army on the Western model were frustrated by conservative opposition . |
| 26 | They had a reserve price on it . |
| 27 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 28 | While the coach waits for a satisfactory fitness test , Steadman , already out of tomorrow 's game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I hope to be ready for a reserve game on Saturday or possibly Monday 's game at Hull but I am confident I will be fit before Wembley . |
| 29 | Why when he had lavished so much care and time , not to mention a medium-sized fortune on this aeroplane did it let him down so utterly ? |
| 30 | I went to open it , and there was Dana , travel-stained and weary but with a beaming smile on his sun-tanned face . |