Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We think that it is now time to review past demonstrations and to decide on the next steps . |
| 32 | If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs . |
| 33 | The other unfortunate thing about lifts is that they are always breaking down , and if you are in your seventies , prone to arthritis and live on the seventeenth floor , it means that you are frequently housebound . |
| 34 | Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure . |
| 35 | She had a burning desire to pack her case and leave on the first mode of transport she could find — she would even settle for a donkey if there was one . |
| 36 | She came as night-nurse on the second of May when I had a bad attack of sciatica and left on the fourteenth of June . |
| 37 | We supposedly get a couple of days to recharge and then turn up refreshed here to shine and glitter on the first night while they 're wrecked . |
| 38 | John Barratt , for that was his name , paid an investigatory visit to Coniston Mines , was impressed with what he found , and wrote on the 4th August 1823 to Lady le Fleming to say that he was considering taking the mine . |
| 39 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 40 | The rites begin at the equinox and culminate on the first day of the New Year with festivals identified with bowls of plenty ; the festivals are associated with flowers such as roses , fruits such as oranges , fair crops such as cotton , and even sun-worship and appeasement of great reptiles such as alligators . |
| 41 | She will arrive on September 1st and depart on the 2nd and I trust you will make her welcome as I know all our mother 's daughters would . |
| 42 | Having received that payment , the plaintiff handed over to Samuel Revill the first note and endorsed on the second — the note for £110.13s.4d. — ‘ received on account of Samuel Revill £47.1s.4d. ; this sum , with the amount of the first note , make £100 . ’ |
| 43 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 44 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
| 45 | Set out your work as shown on the last page . |
| 46 | J K Galbraith drew up a range of alternative situations as shown on the next page : |
| 47 | The more tidy minded among us find it more convenient to think of the Edwardian Era as starting on the 1st January 1900 , when his mother was still obviously , if obscurely , on the throne . |
| 48 | The second rectangle is first imagined as superimposed on the first then moved vertically downwards 1 cm and rotated 45 degrees clockwise about its own top left corner . |
| 49 | The third rectangle is initially visualized as superimposed on the second . |
| 50 | The rule for pre-trading expenditure which deems such capital expenditure as incurred on the first day of trading will not apply in determining whether the expenditure was incurred in the year ending 31 October 1993 . |