Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
2 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |
3 | On 6 February 1945 Himmler 's deputy , Berger , reported that on 30 January all the men commanded by Domanov had enthusiastically sworn loyalty to Hitler ( for a more detailed record of the Cossacks ' relations with Himmler , see Appendix II ) . |
4 | ‘ I write to confirm that on 5 October 1989 you were represented at the hearing to oppose the plaintiff being granted an injunction preventing you from selling the property . |
5 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |
6 | Pete says that on one flight recently he was up in the air for nine hours so you have to take food and drink with you to keep going … in this country survival is not a problem but it can be hard when you 're flying across deserts and things like that |
7 | A handwritten memo in the Public Record Office says that on 30 October Mayne was ordered to leave the railway alone and concentrate on destroying petrol supplies . |
8 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
9 | It is said that on one occasion Prince Napoleon accused the Emperor of having inherited ‘ nothing of the Great Emperor ’ , to which Napoleon III replied ‘ Yes , the family ’ . |
10 | We have seen that on 13 June the Court of Appeal had decided in Heaton 's case that the Transport and General Workers ' Union was not accountable for the action of its shop stewards . |
11 | For simplicity , imagine that on one island the price of the good has not risen at all . |
12 | We will also assume that on 1 April the money market rate of interest is 10 per cent and the long-gilt future is trading at 91–21 , i.e. 91.66 ( per 100 nominal ) . |
13 | ( 29 September 1777 ) Mozart duly obliged and on 11 October wrote to his father : |
14 | On 23 May a receiving order was made and on 11 November 1983 the husband was adjudicated bankrupt . |
15 | On 11 December 1991 the interim order was made and on 23 December 1991 the order under appeal was made . |
16 | Such a link was made when on 20 February 1984 a heavy fall of black snow took place in the Cairngorms in Scotland . |
17 | This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation . |
18 | To this petition Gloucester agreed and on 26 June , in a ceremony consciously modelled on his brother 's accession , he took his seat at Westminster and began his reign . |
19 | To this petition Gloucester agreed and on 26 June , in a ceremony consciously modelled on his brother 's accession , he took his seat at Westminster and began his reign . |
20 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
21 | General Roberts stated that on 6 May a unit of the ROK army had advanced north of the 38th parallel to a depth of 2.5 miles ( 4 km ) and had attacked several settlements . |
22 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’ |
23 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
24 | The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a ‘ man of vile condition called Massaccio ’ was walking in Via Falcone having , it is said , just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains — ‘ vile condition ’ is a euphemism for criminal — at a local gaming house . |
25 | Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves . |
26 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
27 | Peter Bourne reveals that on 16 October 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos ( who disappeared in a still unexplained air accident only ten days later ) was interviewed at the Havana Riviera Hotel by Alexander Alekseev , a KGB official who quickly developed an excellent rapport with Castro and played an extremely important role in the development of relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union . |
28 | The discussion began by noting that on 15 May " this IIQ " had sent a signal to Marshal Tito suggesting the hand-over to him of " approximately 200,000 Jugoslav nationals who were serving in German Armed Forces and who had surrendered in Austria " . |
29 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
30 | Knowles reluctantly agreed and on 26 June 1957 the Chichester coroner , Mr Bridgman , recorded an open verdict as to the cause of death , but said he was quite satisfied the body was that of Crabb . |