Example sentences of "on a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a fifth occasion the appellant approached a woman who was walking to work , grabbed her breast , but walked off when she pulled away . |
| 2 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 3 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | On this occasion , on July 15 , 1944 , he flew the Bomb Group photographer to the RAF field in Beccles , Suffolk , to record the damage inflicted on a 401st Flying fortress that had to make an emergency landing there . |
| 5 | When she came to writing for her college project , she found other material ; this will enable her to enjoy the work more fully on a second visit . |
| 6 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 7 | Like when Hemmings embarked on a second career . |
| 8 | In 1629 Hobbes returned to the Continent on a second tour , as tutor to the son of Sir Gervase Clinton . |
| 9 | Have the fruit or yogurt for dessert on a second day each week . |
| 10 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 11 | In 1899 Watson came on a second tour and this time went to the far west . |
| 12 | Many delegates already won by Tsongas and Brown will probably rally to Clinton on a second ballot . |
| 13 | It is likely that these poems were not sent for publication until Edwards and Richardson decided on a second volume . |
| 14 | Undeterred however , it decided on a second offensive , this time confined to a search for a low-level waste dump where the material would be buried in shallow trenches . |
| 15 | Encouraged by its success and well informed by his agents in France of the increasing unpopularity of the July Monarchy , the Prince decided in the summer of 1840 on a second attempt to seize his inheritance . |
| 16 | The patient may have his arms and upper body supported on the treatment plinth as he stands facing it , while the physiotherapist sits on a second plinth behind him . |
| 17 | Even if you do n't need the money for domestic or emergency reasons , you might need a holiday somewhere special — to go to your daughter 's wedding in Australia — or to go on a second honeymoon . |
| 18 | Councillors were known to have had reservations about an earlier plan which included a staff flat on a second storey because , although it was felt this was desirable from a security point of view , it contravened various planning guidelines . |
| 19 | It showed again on a second test-firing on 25 January and was finally traced to the manifold a few days later . |
| 20 | One unremarked effect of the white Paper on cabling , which was published last week jointly by the Home Office and the Department of Industry , is to undermine the BBC 's monopoly on a second broadcasting revolution set for later this decade — direct broadcasting from satellites ( DBS ) . |
| 21 | He rolled over and the moonlight lay on a second different brandmark — a double triangle scarring his shoulder , blade — and revealed ugly inflamed ridges striping his back from waist to neck . |
| 22 | The development of overt lung cancer depends on a second chemical insult ( the promoter ) , a chance event that may occur 20 to 40 years later , or not at all . |
| 23 | The debate on a second reading was in progress when news circulated along the lobbies that bombs in central Dublin had killed two people and injured eighty-three . |
| 24 | Each morning apply a layer of moisturiser , allow it to sink in , then put on a second layer . |
| 25 | This operates on a second parallel track . |
| 26 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 27 | Therefore we think that GH5 has a primary DNA-binding site , which is similar to that of CAP , and a secondary binding site that is less structurally defined and may consist of a group of basic residues interacting with phosphates on a second DNA duplex . |
| 28 | Despite remedial work , which Howard acknowledged on a second visit in 1786 , the prison was clearly still inadequate . |
| 29 | The aim is to store your unchanging program files on drive C , which can then be write-protected , and partition your hard disk so that your changing data is stored on a second drive . |
| 30 | When Midshipman Jack Rogers , trying to identify a distant ship , hopes it may be a Frenchman and declares ‘ the French will never like the English till they have taught us to eat frogs , and have thrashed us on a second field of Waterloo , and I hope that time may never come ’ , his friend Alick Murray defends French courage in war and laughs at Jack 's belligerence . |