Example sentences of "[noun pl] on the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
2 | ‘ The songs on the first album stem from a period a year and a half ago that was the emotional and physical hole of my life . |
3 | These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards . |
4 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
5 | Now they could see that Jimmy was tugging a large metal filing cabinet with him , dragged from one of the side offices on the first floor . |
6 | ‘ Through the offices on the first floor . ’ |
7 | By early evening they had reached the documentary department offices on the second floor and in one desk , at the back of an open drawer , was the pair of scissors . |
8 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday that he appeared to have fallen from one of the offices on the third floor , but declined to surmise why he was visiting the Admiralty . |
9 | Can we go to the State Department first ? ( laughter ) Listen , I 'll give you some offices on the sixth floor . |
10 | Alternatively , if you can afford it , you can continue paying the premiums on the first policy as well as taking out your second joint endowment . |
11 | This was once known as San Carlo 's Stable because of the archbishop 's mules were kept on the ground floor , the horses of the higher clergy on the first floor and hay for the animals on the upper floor . |
12 | The decision was therefore taken to again begin basing some of the fighters on the third airfield at Takali on a permanent basis . |
13 | The subject of the first-floor frescos is The Triumph of Apollo and the main halls on the second floor were painted with the Gathering of the Gods on Olympia and the Coronation of the Arts and Sciences ( 1722–3 ) . |
14 | Retrospective completion was defined by a missing entry on the Asthma Question Box followed by two or more entries on the next day . |
15 | In contrast , they were responding correctly ( but insignificantly as far as the sales strategy was concerned ) to the two parameters σ and k on the first repetition , and were responding incorrectly ( but significantly ! ) to these parameters on the second repetition . |
16 | So what you 've got there is a mass of you 've got six twelve words on the first circle and then you 've got twenty four words on the outer circle are you gon na dump all that information on to the audience to try and persuade them of your objective ? |
17 | Francis Maginn , who was one of the speakers on the second evening , which was devoted to the subject " The Deaf in Society , was impressed by the organisation of the Congress and by the quality of some of the delegations . |
18 | ( Edited by John Evans , available from focuses on the 150th anniversary of Canterbury Week with a short history of the festival , and an editorial criticising the TCCB for beginning Championship games on a Tuesday , thereby interfering the structure of such festival weeks . |
19 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
20 | Fifty mls on the first day and then 40 , 30 , 20 , 10 . |
21 | There were six bedrooms on the first floor and a further two in a small staff flat above , and from every window a different view of the adjacent hills and woods . |
22 | The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size . |
23 | Some of the ladies are frankly terrified , even those with bedrooms on the first floor . |
24 | However , the Harlay residence remained in the family , and Martin 's daughters still lived there ; two bedrooms on the third floor and one on the fourth were rented . |
25 | 1 patient withdrew because of symptomatic hypotension with visual illusions on the first test day with 200 mg Ro 40-7592 , but the other 10 completed study . |
26 | Two valuable books on the seventeenth century ( apart from the Oxford History mentioned in an earlier chapter ) are those published as Open University set texts , Seventeenth-Century England — A Changing Culture ( London 1980 ) . |
27 | The appointments are for a fixed term of 12–18 months on the first instance . |
28 | Shares have hit their highest levels in two months on the first trading day since Britain joined the European Exchange Mechanism . |
29 | There will be a number of interactive plenary sessions on the first day with discussions on the future requirements of users from a variety of industries , and on how the emerging technology can be related to their needs . |
30 | Find the areas of the shapes on the next page by counting the number of whole squares and parts of squares . |