Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |
| 2 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 3 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 4 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 5 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 6 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |
| 7 | Beating off an ambush by ‘ eighty infidels on foot ’ , he and his train headed off on the last stage of his journey through the burning plains of the Punjab towards the mighty Indian capital and the palace of the Sultan . |
| 8 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 9 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 10 | up on the last year of the Labour Government . |
| 11 | can we accept the recommendation as laid out on the first page of the |
| 12 | In 776 , when the Frankish army set out on the second invasion of Italy to quell the rebellious supporters of Prince Adelchis , the Westphalians and Engrialls revolted . |
| 13 | ITALIAN Fabrizio Tescari won his first World Cup race as defending champion Alberto Tomba crashed out on the second leg of yesterday 's slalom in Sestriere , Italy . |
| 14 | Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot . |
| 15 | And so we 've merely spelt that out on the second page of our standard conditions of service . |
| 16 | Er , the following three pages of the papers sent out to members still stand , but there is some confusion in the numbering on er , the first page of the rest of the report , and there was a section missed out on the second page of the report which er , we 've inserted in the new papers there . |
| 17 | The blaze broke out on the third floor of Camrex House , Tatham Street , Sunderland , and destroyed a bed . |
| 18 | The commandos , who belong to a 55-strong group of US military advisers in El Salvador , had held out on the sixth floor of the annexe during the siege .. |
| 19 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 20 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 21 | YORKSHIRE today start out on the last day of their annual visit to Middlesbrough but will it also be their final championship appearance at Acklam Park ? |
| 22 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 23 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |