Example sentences of "on [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 2 | Where two agencies put forward conflicting options , the search is inevitably on for a third option , which may involve negotiation . |
| 3 | For Scottish students staying on for a sixth year , a CSYS course ( if available ) , will provide an excellent introduction to the kind of study undertaken at university . |
| 4 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 5 | Watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy , Stuart did get on as a 64th minute substitute , but added : ‘ It seems everyone else gets straight back into the side after injury except me . |
| 6 | The 19-stone prop , cleared by the French RU Federation , went on as a second half replacement and played for almost half an hour . |
| 7 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 8 | Right at the end Inst coach Denis Guiler , forced into coming on as a 50th minute substitute so depleted were his side 's ranks , almost stole the headlines with the winner , but his effort was brilliantly saved by goalkeeper Raymond Geddis . |
| 9 | Go through it to a track on the edge of the wood which then forks left up away from the edge of the wood to a clearing and then on to a second gate . |
| 10 | The jockey went on to a second success for Playing Truant 's trainer David Gandolfo , partnering Ballyroe Lady to victory in the Tattersalls Mares Only Novices ' Chase . |
| 11 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 12 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 13 | Having depicted the palace not just as a multitude of busy people and face-to-face relationships , but as an arrangement ( dispositio ) , an apparatus to be efficiently designed and maintained , Hincmar moves on to a second institution , the assembly . |
| 14 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 15 | Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art . |
| 16 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 17 | At present , truckers can take a load from one country to another but face obstacles , as do airlines , in picking up a second load to take on to a third country . |
| 18 | But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’ |
| 19 | Otherwise passing it on to a third party , but you 're not in the case of a married couple . |
| 20 | For instance , a manufacturer may sell defective goods which the buyer then sells on to a third party who suffers loss or injury because of the defect . |
| 21 | One can go on to a third group that I did not discuss , " all-ischaemic events " , including non-fatal and fatal reinfarction ; it includes the development of unstable angina , and revascularisation procedures . |
| 22 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 23 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 24 | The facilities for travellers and the ever present interest of the Inca remains made this an easy city to spend time in , but the darker side of Peru 's history had found its way into the present and thus highlighted the problems of fitting a comfortable tourist face on to a Third World country . |