Example sentences of "[adj] on the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not panic ’ — this on the 46th floor . |
| 2 | Just to be safe , turn off the electricity and remove the fuses for the downstairs lighting Circuit and the upstairs ring main while you do this on the first floor — these cables are under the floorboards . |
| 3 | Head teacher John Sweeney conducted this on the first evening , and Mr. Cark conducted on the second . |
| 4 | Did you say we can change this on the first screen custody ? |
| 5 | KAPIL DEV , India 's Pride , became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series . |
| 6 | The gloomsters have been proved wrong on the first part of the operation . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 9 | they were wrong on the second point at least . ’ |
| 10 | Oh that 's about the answer in the back of the book , so I must have just gone wrong on the last bit here . |
| 11 | can be expected for material that requires study , but for reports your aim must be to make the meaning clear on the first reading . |
| 12 | It was really exciting as Jack finished sixth , shooting a 67 on the last day . |
| 13 | Faldo ruined his chances with a 76 on Saturday — and even a 67 on the last day could only put him in joint second place . |
| 14 | They were high on the second icefield ; or was it the third ? |
| 15 | On April 7th 1855 , Charles Edward Prior MD , was elected by 29 votes to 12 on the second round of voting , and remained in post until June 1st 1900 ; he and his successor , Dr. Goldsmith , kept medical report books , the earliest survivor of which begins in February 1873 . |
| 16 | If you 're going to get picked up in bars and hand it out free on the first date , you 'd better check in regular at St Stephen 's . ’ |
| 17 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 18 | HANSIE CRONJE ( 75no ) and Andrew Hudson ( 52 ) helped South Africa reach 163-3 in reply to India 's total of 212 on the second day of the third Test in Port Elizabeth . |
| 19 | The top layer was built , that you saw in the photograph , was built later , so 31 and 32 had two rooms , erm on the ground floor , and 2 on the first floor , 33 , which was smaller , but it does have a fair sized room , and another upstairs , and then the very small one is 34 . |
| 20 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani visited Turkey on April 29-May 2 on the second leg of his first tour abroad as President [ see also p. 38169 ] . |
| 21 | As chart 2 on the next page shows , poor countries throw away lots of vegetable matter — what some rubbish boffins evocatively call ‘ putrescibles ’ . |
| 22 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 23 | Will they feel empty on the last child 's departure and give substance to what is often called the ‘ empty nest ’ syndrome of marriage ? |
| 24 | Things are , however , somewhat different on the second repetition . |
| 25 | Erm , the conditions were erm slightly different on the second floor , in the sense that there were a few , few people and a few items of equipment erm , and there is a relatively great density of staff on the first floor than I would have found . |
| 26 | A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to supply another undertaking which may be economically dependent on the first undertaking . |
| 27 | The feeling was soughing through them , every face was turned fully towards him , features naked , eyes widened ( they were too expectant , too dependent on the next sally , their wills must be gathered up and channelled towards an irresistible action ) . |
| 28 | Another on the second point about how far a Christian organisation like this school should go in showing forgiveness . |
| 29 | Had problems occurred , the peripheral configuration could have been reconnected to the 600J so that service could continue to be provided until the problems were resolved and the cut over completed on the next weekend . |
| 30 | The Labour leader polled 30,908 votes , a majority over his Conservative challenger , Mr Peter Bone , of 24,728 — up 1,781 on the last election . |