Example sentences of "on [num] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 40 people were killed in Bamako on 22 March after a student demonstration was stopped by the security forces and rioting broke out . |
| 2 | Following your letter of 3 October , I am pleased to be able to tell you that the Transportation Committee agreed on 2 November that a new independent study should be carried out to assess the costs and feasibility of a half-hourly passenger service on the South Suburban route . |
| 3 | NoGGIN events later in the Spring include a special invitation to the Brahms concert on 1 March , a Gilbert and Sullivan Society production on 12 March and a quiz night on 10 April . |
| 4 | He left a distinctive mark of his presence , protesting on 12 December that a member had been ‘ pulled back ’ from voting in a close division , and fainting six days later : ‘ It was said he had a spice of the falling sickness . ’ |
| 5 | Doncaster and Liverpool set the agenda last year and the pot is to be kept boiling with a Sunday point-to-point near Warwick on 26 April and a mixed flat and hurdles meeting at Lingfield on 1 August . |
| 6 | Many Roman villas were built in the form of a rectangle — buildings on three sides and a wall on the fourth . |
| 7 | There were double firing slits on three sides and a metal door set in the side nearest to me . |
| 8 | All this will have to be conducted against a timescale mindful of the second Danish referendum on 18 May and a likely post-treaty intergovernmental conference in the summer . |
| 9 | Red alerts are in force on 11 rivers and a close watch was being kept on the Thames as the National Rivers Authority opened a flood incident room . |
| 10 | In Rutland the jurors swore on 25 July that a great part of the county had been afforested by Henry II , though there is evidence that this had been done by Henry I. Subsequent returns for Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire and Somerset also demanded extensive disafforestments . |
| 11 | Following two incidents in 1991 at Courtaulds ' acetate works at Spondon , Derby — an explosion on 13 January and a fire on 24 June 1991 — Courtaulds set up a review panel to examine the plant 's site safety in manufacturing and distribution . |
| 12 | In general : " Year " can mean either a calendar year starting on 1 January or a period of 12 consecutive months . |
| 13 | A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’ |
| 14 | The conditions typically restricted the defendant to peaceful picketing at his or her usual place of employment , but they could be wider than this , embracing curfews and residency requirements such as the stipulation on one occasion that a defendant reside in Wick ( Wallington , 1985 : 156 ) . |
| 15 | For example , an individual might go to bed later than usual on one occasion because a piece of work or some leisure time activity took longer than normal . |
| 16 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 17 | The context of a bus timetable does increase the number of possible ways the question might be done ; on one occasion when a member of the research team gave the test informally to a class , one pupil said he had found his answer ( several hours ) by adding up the intervals between all of the stops . |
| 18 | But in Belfast , quite sharp style-shifting in a formal direction was noted on one occasion when a young man addressed an older male researcher , after speaking to a woman . |
| 19 | A beggar , the lower part of his face eaten away by sores , did a strange dance , hopping on one leg while a small , skeletal boy clothed in rags played a haunting tune on a reed pipe . |
| 20 | He turned quickly to the voice and there was Slater , bounding down the steps of Holborn Library , wearing a pair of one-and-a-half-legged jeans , with a shiny black shoe on one foot and a knee-length boot on the other ; the jeans were cut to suit , so that one leg ended normally , in a stitched hem over the shoe , while the other leg came to a frayed stop just above the top of the boot . |
| 21 | Then he pulled on a well-worn jacket of aerated leather and strolled out of the flat , with Tal in a box on one shoulder and a duffel over the other . |
| 22 | It was empty apart from a round wooden table , a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard . |
| 23 | Mr Winchester is impressively knowledgeable about all manner of things , from the tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other beneath the Pacific 's waves to the steamer duck paddling furiously away in Patagonia ( although sloppy editing has the duck paddling at 20 knots on one page and a more believable 12 on another ) . |
| 24 | Ranulf agreed and , with the inebriated porter on one hand and a lantern horn in the other , went out into the darkness . |
| 25 | Die studies become even more useful when , as often happens , two coins have been struck from the same die on one side but a different one on the other side . |
| 26 | Agnes undressed , closed the locker and walked through the swing doors into a tiled hall , with showers on one side and a glass enclosed sauna on the other . |
| 27 | I went to see my doctor and he wrote everything down and listened with his head on one side and a finger in his ear as if he was listening to folk music . |
| 28 | No tracks on either side of Loch Ness , just the main trunk road north on one side and a tourist road on the other . |
| 29 | This stretch is attractive at first , with Christ Church Meadow on one side and a cricket pitch on the other , but as it approaches the larger river the Cherwell divides into two channels separated by a flat overgrown island , deserted except for a row of college boathouses . |
| 30 | This clever device produces a parallel double row on one side and a single row of zigzag stitches on the other . |