Example sentences of "[verb] on the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1984 Denison set up his own practice , Denison Peters Limited , to work on the first big project on the Leeds riverside , a housing scheme of part converted corn chandlers and part newly built flats . |
| 2 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 3 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 4 | Songs like ‘ Brand New Love ’ and ‘ Its So Hard To Fall In Love ’ — covered much to Lou 's flattered bewilderment by Superchunk — and newer material that will appear on the next full-length Sebadoh LP , to be released in the new year by Sub Pop and Roughneck , are typical of his style : eschewing traditional songwriting imagery and devices in favour of pure , honest expression . |
| 5 | Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before that . |
| 6 | Where an employee is paid once each month , but in multiples of a week , for example on the last Friday of each month , add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before . |
| 7 | Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay-day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay-day which was at least eight weeks before that . |
| 8 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
| 9 | Lack of garden space precluded any reasonably-sized vat of a permanent nature using brick or block construction — I dare not infringe on the last remaining vestiges of grass . |
| 10 | Delegates gave overwhelming support to motions calling on the next Labour government to link pensions to average earnings or the retail price index , whichever was the higher ; introduce retirement for both men and women at 60 ; and immediately reverse cuts in benefits for young people . |
| 11 | This presents a new set of statistics relating to land use change , based on the first full year 's data ( 1985 ) of a three-year trial project . |
| 12 | Decisions The conference : Called on the next Labour government to introduce retirement for both women and men at 60 on full pension , with the option of early retirement at 55 and to take emergency steps to restore cuts in young people 's benefits . |
| 13 | Similarly , the yield to next call is the yield to maturity assuming the bond is called on the next available call date . |
| 14 | Saintfield Heritage Society — talk on the first recorded invasion of Ulster , Saintfield Library 8.15pm . |
| 15 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 16 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 17 | Payment of the disturbance allowance at the Yorkshire Bank is also made in two equal instalments ; one is given on the first available salary pay day after the move to the new house , the other is paid when the bank receives the proceeds of the sale of the employee 's old house . |
| 18 | His astonished gaze was fixed on the second familiar face staring out at the public floggings from amid the crowd of frightened coolies on the first truck , a face he had n't seen for even longer — that of his own father ! |
| 19 | The seventh patient ( patient X : complex group ) died on the 60th postprocedural day on account of a further exacerbation of his cardiac failure . |
| 20 | On the left were his sisters , May , in Australia , and Alice , gone on the first available post-war ship to America and her man . |
| 21 | This was fortunate , since his father had served on the second high court of justice in February–March 1649 , which had tried and condemned James ( first Duke of Hamilton ) , Henry Rich ( first Earl of Holland ) [ qq.v. ] , and other Royalist leaders in the second civil war of 1648 . |
| 22 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
| 23 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 24 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 25 | The match , on level terms , finished on the fifth extra hole in gathering darkness as water began to deaden the greens and threaten floods . |
| 26 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 27 | Among the passengers was Mr. W. H. Troake , former Stores Superintendent of Croydon Corporation Tramways , who is said to have ridden on the first electric car in Croydon . |
| 28 | There are many examples similar to ( b ) ; perhaps the best rule to give is that the tonic syllable will tend to occur on the last lexical word in the tone-unit , but may be placed earlier in the tone-unit if there is a word there with greater importance to what is being said . |