Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siege-engines demanded on the one hand skilled operators , and on the other a plentiful supply of unskilled labourers to move the necessary materials . |
| 2 | According to analyses based on the 1983 Labour Force Survey , migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force was then restricted to non-manual workers ; though unemployment rates for manual workers were markedly higher in the North than the South , there was no net migration of manual workers to the South ( Hughes and McCormick , 1987a ) . |
| 3 | Local councils in a dozen areas were granted High Court injunctions to prevent Sunday trading , but a handful of national store chains opened on the two Sundays before Christmas . |
| 4 | Wade , the Commonwealth 800 metres record holder since 1985 , has her sights set on the 1500 metres in the Olympic trials meeting in Birmingham at the end of next month and is ready to test her form against top-class opposition after recovering from a knee injury which threatened to ruin her summer plans . |
| 5 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 6 | Flight timings are shown for guidance only and are local times based on the 24 hour clock system . |
| 7 | In any real case a variation of several hundred from the predicted value would be expected due to chance alone , while predictions based on the two methods do not differ by as much as one record in any file examined by the author . |
| 8 | Little bits of this and scraps of that , and Ephraim 's bits of wood , flakes of paint , animal excretions from the three establishments named , were going to be gathered and matched against similar scraps found on the three bodies . |
| 9 | Powers were given to the directors to borrow money on the security of the rates levied on the five parishes and on the property itself . |
| 10 | You must include all payments made on the eight calendar weeks . |
| 11 | The kind of ships needed on the two sides of the Channel differed a little . |
| 12 | The building materials used on the three houses referred to in ( b ) above had cost £18,000 and had all been paid for by December 1990 . |
| 13 | Opposition leaders called on the two ministers at the ministry of justice to resign . |
| 14 | Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) . |
| 15 | The questionnaire included personal details ( age , sex , current grade of employment , ethnic group , marital status , years of full time education , highest level of education , partner 's and father 's occupation , housing tenure , and car ownership ) ; health ( self rated health over the past 12 months , presence of longstanding illness , and presence of recurring health problems based on questions used in the general household survey , and presence of psychiatric symptoms based on the 30 item general health questionnaire ) ; health related behaviours ( current smoking habits , usual frequency of alcohol consumption in past 12 months , and amount of alcohol consumed in the past seven days ) ; psychosocial work characteristics ( assessed with a 67 item questionnaire based on the occupational strain model of job demands and decision latitude which included questions on control , variety and use of skills , and work pace as proposed by Karasek , support at work , and job satisfaction ) ; social circumstances outside work ( number of dependent children , social contact with relatives and friends , and personal difficulties such as financial problems ) ; and types of social support ( assessed by 15 self report questions on up to four nominated close friends or relatives ) . |
| 16 | Yes , there were 300 or so other overs bowled on the four days of play permitted by the weather , with nine innings passing 50 , and even the extras in England 's innings passing the half-century . |
| 17 | With both the Intel Corp Pentium processor and its own Alpha RISC chip ready to enter the personal computer market this year , Digital Equipment Corp is expected to get around the problem by offering parallel lines of nearly identical systems based on the two chips , US PC Week reports . |
| 18 | With both the Intel Corp Pentium processor and its own Alpha RISC chip ready to enter the personal computer market this year , Digital Equipment Corp is expected to get around the problem by offering parallel lines of nearly identical systems based on the two chips , US PC Week reports . |
| 19 | An examination of other reports based on the 1981 census , however , clearly shows that an overwhelming number of such children almost certainly belong to economically inactive , single parent families . |
| 20 | Residues of agricultural chemicals left on the 50 miles of exposed sea bed are causing huge increases in heart disease , cancer and deaths from chronic gastritis , kidney disease and tuberculosis . |