Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNPs are analytically distinguished on three levels , economic , political and cultural-ideological , what I take to constitute the sociological totality . |
| 2 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 3 | It is said that he advised that the centre should be incorporated , and a company ( ‘ C.M.C. ’ ) was duly formed on 29 April 1983 . |
| 4 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 5 | All in all , he had been departmentally punished on twenty-seven occasions , an average of once for each year he had spent in the force . |
| 6 | The indication is serious because , with leaves not able to work properly , the carbohydrate energy food supply is not being elaborated and the entire plant is only firing on one cylinder . |
| 7 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 8 | We may conceive several alternatives but we can only act on one of them . |
| 9 | Highly recommended on two TV programmes and in a national newspaper for its comfort , hospitality and excellent food . |
| 10 | Only to find on one damp behind |
| 11 | MANY mothers agreed with Helen Bullock that men can only focus on one thing at a time . |
| 12 | The loose grouping , which has only met on two occasions , is known unofficially as HOG , the Hilton Object Group , after its inaugural meeting at the Boston Hilton last year . |
| 13 | Lyle 's contract was signed with the Associated Carpet Group ( A.C.G. ) representing independent carpet retailers throughout the U.K. It was won against stiff competition by offering a collection of five carpet ranges made up of 72 individual items all presented on one Tombola . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , they investigated , and apparently it was quite easy , because it was a very distinctive typeface , which they 'd only used on one machine . |
| 15 | He was sub on 20 occasions , but was only used on 11 of them . |
| 16 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 17 | Although you can only work on one piece of a garment at a time , you can have up to sixteen separate pieces in each garment file , as long as they will all be knitted to the same stitch and row tension . |
| 18 | And , when you bought it , you knew for certain that it would only work on one specific piece of typesetting equipment . |
| 19 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 20 | Although any discrepancies may seem trivial , interviewers will regard everything you say with suspicion if they find that you have apparently lied on one particular answer . |
| 21 | 3 Change these measurements into the units shown : unc One of the important advantages of the metric system is that measurement of length , weight , and volume , all depend upon the same principle , Once you have seen that the system is all based on tens and tenths , you should find it less difficult than other weights and measures . |
| 22 | As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) . |
| 23 | As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) . |
| 24 | It is nicely ringed on three sides by colourful high hills or else low mountains , and has a delightful old humpbacked bridge . |
| 25 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 26 | Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be really cool if everybody was up there in the photos , ’ says Neneh , ‘ but the slightly tacky side of the pop star stuff is that it 's all focused on one person . ’ |
| 28 | As Cnut himself only died on 12 November 1035 , it looks as though Alfred , and doubtless Edward too , were poised to act . |
| 29 | A set of chambers in London may have as many as twenty pupils and only keep on two . |
| 30 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |