Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 3 | The range has eight firing points on two levels . |
| 4 | We let the Pacer loose on two testers — one fast , one slow . |
| 5 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 6 | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opens this month in a privately funded $150-million building located on 1.9 acres of government land adjacent to the National Mall . |
| 7 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 8 | The Leith line had another branch added on 1 August 1903 to South Leith Docks from Newhaven via Bonnington , Leith Walk and Seafield . |
| 9 | In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 11 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 12 | Concurrent with the arrest of Guiding Lights , a combined police and customs task force swooped on twenty five addresses in London to unearth a further cache of over two tons of cannabis in a garage . |
| 13 | Now Middlesbrough face the formidable challenge of Manchester United in the two-leg semi-final , a rich reward for the only League club firing on three fronts . |
| 14 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
| 15 | Airline finances and particularly those of small independents are very volatile , sometimes the difference between profit and loss resting on two or three additional seats being filled . |
| 16 | The offer was accepted and the talk given on 25 April 1956 in the main Harwell lecture theatre ( now known as Cockroft Hall ) was attended by laboratory scientists and G. P. Thomson 's AEI team from Aldermaston . |
| 17 | BUNGLING police looking for a Mafia drugs ring swooped on four ‘ suspects ’ … a British holiday couple and their two children . |
| 18 | There was a blur of activity and the sandwich rose on three pairs of legs . |
| 19 | Since the accent in this study lies on 1922 , a report in The Times for 6 January may suffice as an eye-witness account of conditions in Saratov and Samara gubernii . |
| 20 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 21 | The mere is the large village pond surrounded on three sides by a dense bank of elm and sycamore , and is closely associated visually with the churchyard . |
| 22 | At the furthermost end of Short Street a dark oblong rose on hundreds of tiny legs , and started to run . |
| 23 | The second full year of Council 's Doping Control Programme starts on 2 April 1990 . |
| 24 | The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate . |
| 25 | Apart from the four tRNAs , which constitute unique entities on the mitochondrial genome , deletion bore on two respiratory complexes : complex III with cytochrome b , and complex I. This latter was particularly affected , 5 subunits being either totally absent ( ND6 , ND4 and ND4L ) or severely truncated ( ND1 and ND5 ) . |
| 26 | Carey was invited to preach at the next Northamptonshire Baptist Association meeting on 30 May 1792 . |
| 27 | And even continued tedium depends on two cosy assumptions . |
| 28 | The Libyan oil industry depends on thousands of foreign experts , including Britons and Americans , and they seem to be content to stay . |
| 29 | A full programme uses on 17 ltr of water and a 1.2 kWh of energy . |
| 30 | Gould 's collection up to this time consisted , as the Hobart Town Courier related on 24 May , of ‘ about 800 specimens of birds , 70 of quadrupeds ( several of which are new ) , more than 100 specimens preserved whole in spirits , and the nest[s] and eggs of above 70 species of birds , together with skeletons of all the principal forms . |