Example sentences of "on [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , they 're different , but you 're only going to have the variation on three of the strings ; the three plain strings are going to feel pretty similar . |
| 2 | These conclusions have led revisionists to cast doubt on three of the assumptions underlying the liberal interpretation . |
| 3 | The crosses were cut on three of the stones and consist of two well-formed Chi-Rho symbols and four simple crosses ( fig 11.3 ) . |
| 4 | Accelerator mass-spectrometric C dates on 11 of the seeds all fall within one standard deviation of 8,000yrBP . |
| 5 | Just to go back a stage , to a comment you made there , you you did say that the inner relief road on one of the routes , on one of those routes , would in fact enable environmental benefits to be felt elsewhere in the town , simply because you 're getting a better distribution of the traffic . |
| 6 | Hoomey put on one of the jerseys and the dungarees . |
| 7 | I insist on one of the grooms being in here at all times . |
| 8 | So we need this on one of the lines yeah . |
| 9 | " I know only what I 've been told — that he is on one of the ships , " she said unhappily . |
| 10 | If we must only think " if " he met some accident while trying to investigate something he did n't like on one of the ships , he will have died while doing what he felt to be his duty , " I said . |
| 11 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 12 | It may be on one of the islands that surround the Antarctic continent or perhaps in Patagonia on the South American mainland . |
| 13 | On one of the islands he saw a shaggy water rat ; he shouted at it and it slid into the water and swam away with only the top of its head showing . |
| 14 | Zambia grunted uncomfortably and sat down on one of the couches . |
| 15 | Jonas sat on one of the couches beside an elegant older woman whose chestnut hair was attractively swept by wings of grey at the temples . |
| 16 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 17 | Two men were ploughing on one of the hills , and though they escaped with their lives , their ploughs were destroyed and three of their horses struck dead . |
| 18 | The land of Moriah ( 2 ) : Abraham 's offering took place on one of the hills on which Jerusalem now stands ( possibly the temple hill itself — see 2 Chronicles 3:1 ) . |
| 19 | On one of the hills but still in the city , is the Smolenski Monastery , built in 1524–5 as a memorial for the victory and return of the city of Smolensk to Russia ( 242 and 243 ) . |
| 20 | Zambia sat down on one of the sofas . |
| 21 | We continued unimpeded until I saw ahead of me the drawing-room where I had interviewed Mountbatten , and sitting on one of the sofas with his back to us the unmistakable profile and balding head of Prince Charles . |
| 22 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 23 | She was lying on one of the sofas in the drawing-room . |
| 24 | And , with a thankful sigh , Shiona had sunk down on one of the sofas in the reception area . |
| 25 | Guido was inviting her with a wave of his hand to take a seat on one of the sofas — there were four , all in soft pastel colours and piled with cushions . |
| 26 | He seated her firmly on one of the lights , and , without mistake or apology , put each of her feet into one of the clean boots . |
| 27 | Inc. , on one of the authorities they had studied : |
| 28 | The burlesquing of the debate over this issue does not simply lie in the Nun 's Priest 's professions of inability to cope with such learned speculations : or in his finally declaring the problem irrelevant : Learned in-joking on one of the authorities on the subject of freewill and providence , Boethius , is also found in the fox 's ability to refer to Boethius ' book on music ( 3293 – 4 ) and the fact that the fox breaks into Chauntecleer 's yard " " By heigh ymaginacioun forncast " " , " Foreseen by High Imagination " ( 3217 ) . |
| 29 | If the stem consists of more than one syllable there will be a secondary stress on one of the syllables of the stem . |
| 30 | He shovelled a small amount of coal inside , and then placed a kettle on one of the hotplates . |