Example sentences of "[num] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the 31 pits on British Coal 's hit list is Point of Ayr , near Prestatyn , where the jobs of 478 are on the line . |
| 2 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 3 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 4 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 5 | GEC supplied the equipment for assembly at BREL Crewe , and although software problems delayed entry into service until the early part of 1989 , the prototype batch of ten ( another twenty-one are on order ) were a regular sight on King 's Cross-Peterborough commuter and some Leeds service by the end of the year . |
| 6 | At Gagosian , from 5 November to 9 January , a selection of ‘ Ocean Parks ’ from the years between 1965 and 1985 are on view , some of them on loan from museums ( Yale , the Metropolitan , MoMA ) and some from private collections . |
| 7 | The 2,250 people employed two years ago have been cut to about 1,000 , of whom 300 are on ‘ short-time working with nil hours ’ ; the workforce will be down to 600 by December . |
| 8 | The report said that of 1,330 active oil wells , about 700 were on fire at the end of April , with between 2,000,000-6,000,000 barrels lost a day , and it estimated that bringing the fires under control " may take up to 18 months " . |
| 9 | Of full-time professionals playing for a major club like Sheffield United in 1934–5 only four out of twenty-one were on the maximum wage . |
| 10 | Of the Survey 's staff in Scotland , 12 were on active military service , Bailey and Richey being decorated for bravery . |
| 11 | The three genes are unlinked ; Oct-1 is on chromosome 1 ( 69 ) , Oct-2 is on chromosome 7 ( 70 ) and Oct-11 on chromosome 9 . |
| 12 | The company says earnings growth of 10% in 1993 is on target , excluding the accounting changes . |
| 13 | The company says earnings growth of 10% in 1993 is on target , excluding the accounting changes . |
| 14 | No. 1 is on the Up side , No. 2 is on the Down side and so on alternately . |
| 15 | With an value of unity , point 1 is on and 2 is on : this represents the difference ( gain ) in social welfare available by distribution to equality at 2 from 1 . |
| 16 | At Brora the date 1895 was on the station building . |
| 17 | Room 12 was on the first floor . |
| 18 | A notice in accordance with regulation 7 of the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 was on 1 September 1987 served on the respondent . |
| 19 | The workforce of 8,000 before the revolution has been cut to 5,800 through early retirement and natural wastage ; even so , hundreds are on short-time , and sackings are inevitable . |
| 20 | More than 100 are on duty to keep an eye on the 2,000 clubgoers who nightly dance or drink away the small hours from 11pm to 6am . |
| 21 | Müncheberg and his Kette from 7/JG 26 were on their way out on another hunting expedition . |
| 22 | A further 1,770,000 were on short-time work , i.e. in most cases not working . ) |
| 23 | By 1981 , the numbers of students had grown considerably to 377,000 : of these 209,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including only 27,000 on initial teacher training , and 168,000 on part-time courses . |
| 24 | The façade of 1518 is on Île de France pattern . |
| 25 | Yes the flow sorry , point thirteen and fourteen , thirteen is on the southern bypass , I thought Mr was referring to another flow which |
| 26 | Right , sorry , one six is on beauty and five eight is on intelligible beauty . |
| 27 | Although the central focus of Chapter 7 is on the connections between the state and civil society through political action , it will be necessary to consider these other aspects and their significance for politics . |
| 28 | A decision by the Germans to leave their interest rates unchanged put the skids under prices in London and the FT-SE 100 was on the slippery slope . |
| 29 | The flat at number thirteen was on the ground floor . |
| 30 | Sixty-one was on the third floor . |