Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] on [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitching their eighty-nine lodges on the river 's eastern bank , the people grazed their ponies in the westerly hills and cut new lodge poles which were to be dragged to the Crow country when seasoned . |
| 2 | Says ‘ I wrote a letter at the lunch table at Upton entering my friend and me. the letter then joined 30,000 others on the producer 's desk and we thought no more about it . |
| 3 | The project is co-ordinated by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) and aims to influence the actions of the eight governments on the river 's course . |
| 4 | 923 the court was concerned with three guarantees entered into by a husband and wife to cover the indebtedness of a family company of which both were shareholders and directors and with three charges on the wife 's house executed by her in favour of the bank securing the same indebtedness . |
| 5 | Sergeant Charles Trumper of the Royal Fusiliers was detailed to accompany them , perhaps because no man had been known to survive three charges on the enemy 's lines . |
| 6 | Assuming the absence of a signal from capacitor C4 ( as revealed by the oscilloscope test earlier , or the correct functioning of the circuit around IC2 ) , check that the d.c. voltages on the op.amp IC1 pins are as follows : |
| 7 | In elections held on Nov. 21 , 1989 , to around 5,100 seats on the country 's 14 county councils and 275 municipal councils , the ruling Conservatives incurred major losses , but the right-wing populist Progress Party ( Fremskridtspartiet — FrP ) made significant gains . |
| 8 | Under the Act , persons may be detained for questioning at a police station , without charge , for 36 hours on the police 's own authority , and for a further 60 hours subject to successful application for a magistrate 's order . |
| 9 | It 's even possible that they may end up bringing all forty-one casualties on the UN 's list . |
| 10 | erm Yes , we lost eight games on the trot erm finally winning here against Gosport . |
| 11 | Fifteen tobacco farms are among the 70 farms on the government 's shopping-list . |
| 12 | ( Anyone who suggests another committee should be sent to serve for twelve months on the company 's welfare , safety or canteen committee ! ) |
| 13 | Lori McNeil , the lowest ranked player in the field , pulled off a 7–6 ( 7–1 ) , 6–4 first round victory in the Virginia Slims Championships for her biggest triumph in nine years on the women 's tennis circuit . |
| 14 | The report on East Cleveland 's housing shortage was made at a forum in Skelton which revealed that there are : 114 homeless families in East Cleveland 2000 households on the council 's waiting list Only 35 new private houses built in the area in 1991–2 Langbaurgh council has £11m from the sale of council houses but is not allowed to spend it on building new ones . |
| 15 | The late Charles Mowat took over 2,500 photographs of the railway scene between 1924 and 1969 , also a few taken between 1900 and 1924 , mainly of smaller and medium-sized stations and branch lines , including twelve scenes on the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 16 | Indeed , at the time of writing it has seven out of the 15 titles on The Bookseller 's bestsellers list . |
| 17 | 4,600 households on the City 's Council Homes waiting lists . |
| 18 | Colchester Borough Council has employed professional artists to produce giant murals on the gable ends of two shops on the town 's Greenstead estate . |
| 19 | Fans wondered whether there was anything sinister about the four tracks on the band 's first record of 1988 . |
| 20 | Forget the flourish of the big white napkin , forget two thumbs on the cork 's corona , forget aiming at the bulbs in the recessed ceiling-lights . |
| 21 | Two comments on the courts ' approach are warranted here . |
| 22 | As for pricing on the new DB2/6000 , this is tied to the number of concurrent use connections , and starts at $2,000 for up to two users on a baby RS/6000 to $57,600 for over 256 users on a top-end machine . |
| 23 | Now er that 's that generates two of the three documents that the cheque and er the important thing er about the cheque of course is that if it 's two signatories , and a lot of companies of course require that , we need two signatories on the banker 's order . |
| 24 | This technique , known as very-long-baseline interferometry ( VLBI ) , can determine with great accuracy the distance between two points on the Earth 's surface by using radio telescopes . |
| 25 | A Home Office pathologist has told the James murder trial at Preston Crown Court that he found forty two injuries on the child 's body . |
| 26 | In 1974 there were 8061 employees on the town 's industrial estates ; by 1981 this had fallen to 5337 . |
| 27 | People can opt for the group 's Global trust , where only 50 per cent of the funds go into the UK , or for one of the UK-based unit trusts , or pick one of more than 200 shares on the Pru 's list , or select a combination of both direct and indirect . |
| 28 | There were seven centuries on a batsman 's paradise of a pitch , with John Stephenson and Nasser Hussain getting two of them as Essex romped home with eight overs remaining . |
| 29 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |