Example sentences of "on the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 2 | Few realise the toll erosion 's taken on the 200 year old structure . |
| 3 | This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other . |
| 4 | Is not that what we would have expected when the Government take on the 16 to 18-year-olds and perpetuate the myth that that age group is in full-time employment , in full-time training or in full-time education ? |
| 5 | straight on the four one four from Chelmsford , picked up the M eleven followed the M eleven up and took the A forty five across country . |
| 6 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 7 | ‘ Bifurcation ’ refers to a dual-edged approach to the problem of offending : differentiating between ‘ ordinary ’ or ‘ run of the mill ’ offenders with whom less severe measures can be taken on the one hand , and on the other hand ‘ exceptional ’ , ‘ very serious ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ offenders who can be made subject to much tougher measures . |
| 8 | A month later on the twenty fourth of May nineteen eighty eight , there was the first of a series of operations to correct deformities of both feet and the left wrist . |
| 9 | A month later on the twenty second of June nineteen eighty eight another operation lengthened the left achilles tendon . |
| 10 | On the earlier electronics , you ca n't use the double-length switch on the 580 and modular electronics , the knitting sequence is the same as when it is not in use . |
| 11 | Later on the 40 pins will reveal themselves to be tiny light bulbs . |
| 12 | So far if we take on the ninety ninety two figures we attended something like eight hundred bonfires . |