Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 TPM is implemented in prolog-2 and runs on SUN-3 and SUN-4 machines .
2 Yemen abstained on 5 votes and Cuba opposed 2 and abstained on 3 .
3 Contracts for the sale of Vertigo were exchanged on 14 May 1985 and completed on 16 August .
4 He served in the Lisbon expedition of 1826 and retired on half pay in January 1831 with the rank of major .
5 He was chairman of the economic and development subcommittee until 1986 and served on six committees in all .
6 joined in 1921 and retired on 30 September 1960 .
7 What the investor could not anticipate was the merger of Reed and Elsevier announced in mid-September 1992 and implemented on 1st January 1993 .
8 Representatives of the Czech and Slovak television and radio services met in Bratislava on Aug. 5 and agreed on joint back-up and operations of television and radio coverage in both republics .
9 Northumbrian regnal tradition gave a reign of ten years to Eardwulf , who returned from exile and was acclaimed king of Northumbria on 14 May 796 and consecrated on 26 May at York by Archbishop Eanbald and the three Northumbrian bishops of Hexham , Whithorn and Lindisfarne ( ASC D , s.a 796 ) .
10 By his will , made on 1 March 1638 and proved on 11 October 1638 , Langdon left his surveying instruments to his son-in-law , George Darker , who may therefore have been his apprentice or assistant .
11 The fourth and youngest boy , Bramwell Orams , was in the air force from the age of seventeen and flew on many sorties in the Pacific war zone .
12 George Seawright was shot by the Marxist-Leninist IPLO on 19th November 1987 and died on 3rd December .
13 Officials of Czech coalition parties met in Prague on Oct. 13 and agreed on major points of their republic 's future constitution .
14 Index-linked Treasury 2 per cent 1988 was issued in March 1982 and matured on 30 March 1988 .
15 Twenty years on , it has acquired an additional building , number 5 , has a staff of 23 and puts on 21 exhibitions each year in three exhibition spaces .
16 The lintel board over the door was more elaborate than those of Nos. 1–16 and supported on ornate capitals .
17 Porvoo Cathedral was built c. 1415 and stands on high ground on the outskirts of the town .
18 The lease was acquired on 28 April 1989 and expired on 25 March 1991 .
19 His will , made on 30 November 1679 and proved on 1 April 1680 , shows him in possession of lands in Essex and Ireland ; it made modest but adequate provision for his wife Martha , daughter of John Ireland of Hale in Lancashire , and for a son and three daughters .
20 Think what happens if you start with four and add on different numbers .
21 Roland read through 1857 and embarked on 1858 .
22 Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development .
23 " I am thinking of a number , I then multiply it by seven and add on five " .
24 He hit 13 fours and put on 140 in the crucial stand with Rob Bailey before skying a catch to wide mid-on nine runs short of a ton .
25 His will ( made on 7 April 1682 and proved on 30 August 1683 ) attests to considerable wealth and wide commercial interests .
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