Example sentences of "[det] [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 2 | This centred on three principles : reducing work to simple tasks ; giving each worker one unvarying duty ; and removing all planning and quality control from the shop floor to the central office . |
| 3 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 4 | How they do this depends on three things : their initial purpose , their potential audience , and the nature of the information they have . |
| 5 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 6 | A man might hope to support a wife and fairly large family on a pound a week ; some managed on ten shillings ( 50 p ) a week . |
| 7 | He was a papal chaplain by 1281 , and , following two disputed elections to the bishopric of Winchester , he was appointed by papal provision to this see on 9 June 1282 . |
| 8 | But all that depends on one person ! |
| 9 | Like most cars with double-flight stairs , these had very short half canopies , with wooden roller blind destination boxes , each mounted on three stanchions above the end hand rail . |
| 10 | If it seems too much to see on one visit , remember there 's no law that says you ca n't come back to Brighton & Hove time and time again . |
| 11 | There was too much riding on one man . |
| 12 | So in a way yo you 're doing different hours and all so your pay , was that based on forty hour week ? |
| 13 | They all agreed on one thing , however . |
| 14 | The first team to all sit on one chair . |
| 15 | All located on two lane roads when no bike has . |
| 16 | Er and therefore the the overall effect is a more of spreading the traffic than simply it all appearing on one route . |
| 17 | The most dramatic cloud of all occurred on 9 April 1984 somewhere between the Soviet Kuril islands and Sakhalin , a sensitive military area not far from where the Korean airliner was bombed from the sky . |
| 18 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 19 | ‘ Those were all done on one roll of film ’ he explained , ‘ Because they had to be instantaneous and I knew if I went back again , it would not be the same . |
| 20 | Letters 32 to 49 of the RNI were all written on 1 March with the express purpose of pulling out every stop in favour of Otto with the crowned heads of Europe , and especially with the kings of England and of France . |
| 21 | The latter depends on two factors . |
| 22 | The latter depends on two factors . |
| 23 | Assemble edits are made much easier if the camera-originals are all shot on one cassette . |
| 24 | We all depend on one biosphere for sustaining our lives . |
| 25 | It all began on 13 April 1898 with 37 miles of the Corporation 's very own tramway track and an extra four miles kindly leased by Govan . |
| 26 | ‘ Right then , ’ Mr Grovey bellowed , ‘ I 'll call out an instruction like this ; ‘ Let's all hop on one leg , ’ OK ? . |
| 27 | Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August . |
| 28 | We all sat on one side of the table and the Secretary of State sat on the other . |
| 29 | ‘ The system works through eight black boxes , each focusing on one colour harmony , ’ explains Lorna , who bought her franchise 18 months ago for £10,000 ( plus VAT ) . |
| 30 | Kenneth Orbinson , an Ulster Television cameraman , gave evidence at the trial of those arrested on 5 October : he said that he had been sprayed while filming from the window of a flat in Duke Street ; but his film was not admitted as evidence . |