Example sentences of "[verb] on [num] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also surprised at a later date to find on one occasion an abstract in Minton 's studio . |
| 2 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 3 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 4 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 5 | Her marriage to Archibald earl of Angus — whose name , with unwitting appropriateness , she spelt ‘ Anguisshe ’ — and subsequent divorce , combined with her demands for a place in political life , produced on one occasion the agonized response that she might have it if only she would be ‘ a good Scots woman ’ , and created continuing and profoundly irritating headaches for those who were trying to control Scottish affairs . |
| 6 | The ballet was not originally announced for the London season , but the company was persuaded to stay for an extra week and The Witch was premiered on 18 August the night before the last . |
| 7 | They represent acceptable exposure levels based on eight hours a day for five days a week . |
| 8 | It cites an annual saving of £600 a year on the Peugot 309 1.9-litre diesel compared with the initially cheaper 1.6-litre petrol version , based on 12,000 miles a year . |
| 9 | That is a scale of acidity and alkalinity based on 14 times the logarithm of the ratio of disassociated hydrogen ions in an aqueous solution measured in grams per litre . |
| 10 | The jewel is formed by a Lombardic letter M framing on one side the Virgin and on the other the Angel of the Annunciation . |
| 11 | Bigger brother Waterstones ( although only marginally so — 8,400 sq ft , 25 full time , 16 full time equivalents ) also opens on seven days a week , and occupies the ground floor and basement of one of Glasgow 's most attractive buildings , so Venetian in character that it is known as the Ca' d'Oro . |
| 12 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 13 | I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through . |
| 14 | At the trial of those arrested on 5 October the police gave confused evidence about whether or not stones , as well as placards , had been thrown . |
| 15 | As dawn broke on 30 June the lines of white tape became more obvious to the two soldiers lying in the ditch , a little way up the road . |
| 16 | Drinking — and not training weekends — meant my weight stuck on 12 stones ; trying to race on 20 miles a week , plus the drinking , was not on . ’ |
| 17 | I wer I started on ten shillings a week there , down there , at er fourteen . |
| 18 | Under the heading of coarse fishing there are different types of fishing which concentrate on one species an example of this is Carp fishing . |
| 19 | I announced on 15 January the establishment , with the joint support of British Aerospace , of Hutton grammar school in Lancashire as the first voluntary-aided technology school . |
| 20 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 21 | For the moment I will leave on one side the question of women 's use of questions and their tendency to speak less in mixed conversation . |
| 22 | If a family of , say , five could in years of normal food prices be almost supported on 4s 6d a week , then a payment of 6d or 1s , either to a single pauper or as a supplement to the earnings of a large family , was indeed significant , especially if it was combined with occasional relief payments for tools , clothing , towards rent or for medicine . |
| 23 | As announced on 11 March an unchanged final dividend of 1p per share is being recommended . |
| 24 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 25 | Though snow is observed falling on 47 days a year at Stornoway , it is lying ( at 0900 hrs ) on only 11 of these days ( 5 in the Uists ) . |
| 26 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 27 | There are many reasons for the slow pace of a proposal , but if we leave on one side the lack of enthusiasm which can itself defer a project for years , the three key factors are : |
| 28 | I could get two part-time jobs — forty pounds a week — you ca n't live on forty pounds a week … |
| 29 | ‘ We had one of those social workers come round a few weeks ago — she was doing a sort of survey of old age pensioners — some idea that they could live on twenty-five shillings a week for food . |
| 30 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |