Example sentences of "on [pron] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 2 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 3 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 4 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 5 | IF THESE SALES HAVE NOT BEEN ACHIEVED THEN THE BALANCE OF ROYALTIES UNPAID WILL BECOME PAYABLE THREE YEARS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE FIRST CASSETTES WERE MANUFACTURED . |
| 6 | IF THESE SALES HAVE NOT BEEN ACHIEVED THEN THE BALANCE OF ROYALTIES UNPAID WILL BECOME PAYABLE THREE YEARS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE FIRST CASSETTES WERE MANUFACTURED . |
| 7 | All four cameras scheduled for use in this episode are positioned on their ‘ A ’ positions , three of them aimed at the set on which the first scene will be acted out . |
| 8 | The claimant brought an action against the bank claiming that she be considered as automatically hired as from March 5,1986 ( the date on which the first of above male candidates had been hired ) and she be paid the relevant salary , plus interest , from that same date forward up to the actual payment . |
| 9 | The HAT has purchased extra land at each site on which the first phase of new houses will be built . |
| 10 | The blackest cricket day for Princes of Wales was the occasion ( date unspecified in Wisden ) on which the 18th , 19th and 20th Princes of Wales — Edward VII , George V , Edward VIII — were hat trick victims of the future King George VI ‘ on the private ground … below Windsor Castle ’ . |
| 11 | Under normal circumstances , third party solicitors will , in response to intimation of interest , forward a letter detailing fully their clients ' contentions in respect of both the circumstances surrounding the accident and the grounds of fault on which the third party intends to rely . |
| 12 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 13 | The rub is the general conviction , based on the man 's record , that the same pragmatism , unencumbered by ideology or ethics , that leads him to sign an agreement one day will lead him to renege or cheat on it the next . |