Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that Santa 's address , the answer to Enigma 595c , failed to appear on 2 February with the rest of the answers to the Christmas Enigmas . |
| 2 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 3 | Alex Barr of Payment Services showed the London Press the £45,000 the Bank would have expected to lose on 31,000 cards over 18 months . |
| 4 | In this discussion we want to concentrate on one aspect of marking : how the source file can be sent electronically to the marker and how the marker can make use of this electronic form . |
| 5 | This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually . |
| 6 | Who wants to celebrate on 7 October ( fortieth anniversary of the GDR ) ? resident of East Berlin The successful are always tempted to regard their success as a sort of blessing or reward for righteousness . |
| 7 | Any test of the implementation of policy of more delegation , therefore , needs to focus on two factors in the standing of DHAs . |
| 8 | I do n't wonder whether it would be helpful just step back a bit and just look at the county council 's view as to how it should treat migration in the light of what the Secretary of State has approved on two occasions , when this issue has come up . |
| 9 | BRITISH Rail has called on four rail unions to agree plans to limit excessive overtime worked by signals and telecommunications engineers as part of a radical review of pay and working conditions following the disaster . |
| 10 | The chapter has focused on one group of women in poverty , scanning the research literature for information on mothers in low-income households . |
| 11 | Er , to take then first the report which you will find on page five you will see that faith and life on this occasion has concentrated on one subject and that is our |
| 12 | Since our research has concentrated on one company in a particular industry , we are not attempting to draw general conclusions for all company reports . |
| 13 | Inspection shows that whereas the clock has pulsed 12 times , X1 has pulsed on 6 times and X2 only 3 . |
| 14 | A Canadian , Chris Hampson has worked on three continents in his ICI career . |
| 15 | He has put on 4½ stone , and at 13 stone admits he is now overweight . |
| 16 | The eight-month-old child has put on four pounds since he was brought to Britain by Teesside-based Convoy Aid Romania . |
| 17 | At the time of writing the Stock Exchange has passed on 185 cases of suspected insider trading to the Department of Trade and Industry since 1980 , of which there have been only twenty-two prosecutions and twelve convictions . |
| 18 | The faculty of medicine at the University of Munich , for instance , has to take on 350 students every half year . |
| 19 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 20 | It was programmed to close on 14 December but its success was such that the organisers ( the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris , the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and the FIAT group in Venice ) decided to extend the showing . |
| 21 | The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’ |
| 22 | ACCOUNTANCY TV Accountancy TV starts broadcasting on 17 September . |
| 23 | For satellites launched with this vehicle , which has failed on two launches out of five , the premium is set around 12 per cent . |
| 24 | The coup de grace for this unrealistic man of reason attempting to rationalize came on 11 February . |
| 25 | The Muslims believe that the spot marks Adam 's punishment for disobedience and that here he was made to stand on one foot for a very long time . |
| 26 | All I had to do was stand around pretending to pull on one end of a tug-of war rope while a load of peers pulled on the other , as Jerry stood by attracting the tabloids ' photographers . |
| 27 | The amount you receive depends on two factors : the number of years you have worked for the organisation plus the fraction of final pay on which the scheme is based , typically 1/60th . |
| 28 | In these circumstances , it is , in my judgment , impossible to regard the arrangements which Twogates made on 19 October 1984 as amounting to a re-entry under the … lease . |
| 29 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 30 | AND PLANS TO EMBARK ON THREE REFERENCE TECHNOLOGY SEARCHES THIS YEAR |