Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If possible eat on the same day that you buy them . |
| 2 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 3 | This operates on the same principle as a single-point instantaneous heater , but is more powerful and can be linked to several outlets . |
| 4 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 5 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 6 | For the Piaroa , reproduction , production , and language are all placed on the same level as basically predatory capabilities , or the means for predation . |
| 7 | The three papers all focus on the same abnormality : an exchange of material ( translocation ) between two chromosomes ( chromosomes 8 and 14 ) that is particularly common in a tumour known as Burkitt 's lymphoma . |
| 8 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 9 | They were all grafted on and they 're all growing on the same tree . |
| 10 | THE ROLL of a class in a Co Down primary school jumped by more than half in one go when four children from the same family — all born on the same day — arrived . |
| 11 | Suppose your gas , telephone and life insurance bills all arrive on the same day . |
| 12 | Transactions during an account are all settled on the same day : the second Monday following the end of the account . |
| 13 | A 48″ × 18″ × 18″ tank will weigh 490 lb ( or a mind boggling 4.5 PFK staff writers all standing on the same spot ) . |
| 14 | On Feb. 3 between 3,000 and 10,000 protesters marched 14 km from Madrid to the Torrejón air base demanding the closure of US-Spanish bases as staging posts to the Gulf ; 3,500 marched on the same day to the Rota naval base on the south Atlantic coast . |
| 15 | Phyllis recalls that her school reports all ended on the same note : ‘ If she put as much energy into her work as into her play , she would do much better ’ . |
| 16 | However , from the gardener 's point of view they serve another purpose too , for all thrive on the same mineral salts as green water discolouring algae and , being more advanced forms of plant life , they are able to starve the algae out and ensure crystal clear water if planted in sufficient numbers at the outset . |
| 17 | No clear distinction was made between the temporal and spiritual privileges of the Church ; they all stood on the same level , enforced by the same sanctions , guaranteed by the same authority , reflecting the same divine ordering of the world . |
| 18 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 19 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 20 | You 're wearing the summer shorty for greater freedom of movement for your arms and legs but Howard 's got the full suit , for more protection in colder weather but they both work on the same principle . |