Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 2 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 3 | By adopting the third directive on life assurance , the European Commission cleared the way for a single European insurance market . |
| 4 | Maneka Gandhi , India 's former Environment Minister , accused the G7 countries of " keeping the Third World on the debt/poverty hook , whilst vastly over-consuming and polluting themselves " . |
| 5 | Teenage children , admitted by almost all teachers as the most difficult to teach , may become better motivated and better behaved if they have a short-term goal , passing the next grade on the ladder , and if they are working alongside people who are both older and younger than themselves . |
| 6 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 7 | When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position . |
| 8 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 9 | Captain Martin Linge , a Norwegian intelligence officer with the Troop , kept up the momentum of the attack , leading a second assault on the hotel until he , too , was killed trying to force open a door . |
| 10 | It would be equally so to deny it , especially when considering the first recording on the tape . |
| 11 | I 've written the whole section as an identical pattern of pull-offs ( with one note in parentheses , because I think that 's what Cliff was aiming for , but missed getting the first lick on string 1 to sound out — there were no drop-ins on recording sessions in 1956 ! ) . |
| 12 | Oliver Stone is smiling so much because he has landed the job he always wanted : getting the last word on Jim Morrison . |
| 13 | Johnson passed the halfway mark in 25 mins 26 sec , holding a three-second advantage on Webb , but the Northumbrian gradually extended his lead in the second half of the race to win by 49 seconds . |
| 14 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 15 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 16 | Richie Richardson 's side slumped to 233 all out — 162 runs short of Australia 's first innings total of 395 — after starting the third day on 62-3 . |
| 17 | Quorum , the other Mac-on-Unix pioneer , maintains that market research indicates that users are not interested in having a second platform on their machines which is what Apple is essentially proposing to do but would rather have their Mac apps available under Motif as Quorum 's products offer . |
| 18 | Finishing every last morsel on your plate wo n't make your hair curl or do anything to help the starving children in India . |
| 19 | ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) Any person who intentionally obstructs a person exercising rights conferred by this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 21 | It formerly powered Charlton Mill , before reaching the first mill on the outskirts of the expanding town , Sandford Mill . |
| 22 | Beyond Slate Mill , the Chelt weaves its way unhindered for a few miles before reaching the last mill on its course , the little corn one at Norton . |
| 23 | So , when the 1971 British Lions stretched Fergie McCormick this way and that when winning the First Test on Mains ' home ground , the All Black selectors decided that McCormick had to go , and Mains went on to play the remaining three Tests of the first rubber that the Lions had won in New Zealand . |
| 24 | Otto Becker , a member of Germany 's silver medal team in the 1990 World Championships , proved his two World Cup horses are in top form by winning the first warm-up on Leandra , and then going clear , though with no pressure , on Landmann in the speed class . |
| 25 | MICHAEL ROBERTS recorded his second consecutive century in this country when winning the last race on Power Shift at Folkestone yesterday and can take this season 's total beyond 100 at York this afternoon , writes Hyperion . |
| 26 | Congress , I know I 'm speaking to the team , but it 's up to us and the activists who are not here to motivate our members and get this campaign off the ground and by supporting this motion , we will be putting the first foot on the ladder to defeating the government 's pay policy . |
| 27 | Phil was putting the last bow on the church gates when he fell on to the 6ft railings . |
| 28 | There was another state where it was there — placing the second piece on the other side of the desk . |
| 29 | Money could be better spent on introducing a third coach on a two-car Sprinter for luggage , bikes , parcels and prams , etc . |
| 30 | This was the reason for the comments in Evans , but there was nothing said in Evans against making a second order on a later occasion which would take the total above 240 hours when added to the original order , but would not do so when added to the hours yet to be worked under it . |