Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
| 2 | And when I bribe a willing campesina to buy a train ticket for me — gringo tourists are not supposed to use cheap local transport but to stick together on the ninety dollar tourist train — I shall be continuing a gentle descent into the lushly green Urubamba valley that , eighty kilometres beyond the small town of Aguas Calientes , becomes thick , matted jungle ; becomes a hideout for Sendero . |
| 3 | The restructuring will enable it to focus better on the two areas of its expertise in both wide area and local networks . |
| 4 | The public tend to focus more on the one penny than on the quarter of a million illegal profit and conclude that the incident is insignificant . |
| 5 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 6 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 7 | The next time I 'm going to be in my office will be a week next Tuesday , as I , you know , I 'm due to arrive in on the twenty eighth . |
| 8 | And you need n't be going just to America to cash in on the two dollar £ . |
| 9 | Thus it was welcomed because it seemed to bring together on the one hand the idealized liberalism of the l960s and 1970s — when pupils and teachers hoped to romp together through an uninhibited dance of individualized learning , projects , pupil-centred learning-situations , and an end to authoritarian concepts of knowledge — with , on the other hand , the 1980s demand for ‘ standards ’ . |