Example sentences of "[am/are] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A request was made by local residents for street lighting on the section of Gubberford Lane to the South of the railway bridge where there are houses on one side of the road . |
| 2 | This classics such as Tom Brown 's Last Match and Dickens 's Dingley Dell v All Muggleton are spread before a fresh generation , as are essays on legendary players by writers of quality . |
| 3 | More down to earth are essays on predicting the economy by Frank Hahn and the frontiers of medicine by Ian Kennedy . |
| 4 | I can see case by case judgments arising based on the precise nature of the services or their scale as a whole , but those are judgments on the facts rather than the framework for general rule-making . |
| 5 | There are toilets on the left , and just after these , on the right , a shop selling ice creams . |
| 6 | The 70/80 wpm examination and the 90/100 wpm examination are timetables on separate days . |
| 7 | Now there are times on farms when they need a lot of people to help out . |
| 8 | And there are notes on subjects such as fruit crystalisation and what is possibly the best explanation published of how and why jams set . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet , ’ he added , ‘ there are builders on that plot now , with an Egyptian engineer , building a palace for an army captain . |
| 10 | Excise duties are taxes on specific home-produced or imported goods , with ‘ cigarettes , booze and petrol ’ being the usual suspects to be rounded up on each Budget day . |
| 11 | There are guide-lines on standards of care but these are not always adhered to even when charges are high . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ We should be having swimming training , there are ducks on the pitch . ’ |
| 13 | Despite these drawbacks , and while this book describes only the English law and practice relating to expert determination , the procedure is found in other jurisdictions : there have been some important Australian judgments on disputed expert determinations , and there are cases on the subject in the New Zealand law reports . |
| 14 | The giants are experts on working the crowd up into ‘ He 's behind you ! ’ pantomime scenarios and on making the physical manoeuvres look and sound bruising . |
| 15 | The last thing they are are experts on making money . |
| 16 | These are rules on capital flows , transport and environment , together with some useful measures on education and the granting of European regional aid , known as cohesion funds . |
| 17 | Bibliotheca has a number of features which are improvements on existing text retrieval systems , including the non-necessity for indexing , the non-occurrence of retrieval noise and suitability for general users since any word can be retrieved . |
| 18 | In general , modern drawing implements are improvements on ancient materials . |
| 19 | Rape was not charged but there are dicta on the subject from six of the 13 judges who sat in the case . |
| 20 | In addition to core units in History and Literature , there are units on Music , Film and Drama . |
| 21 | And just as there are books on the Munros , Richard Goedeke has written a guide to their alpine equivalents , describing each peak and the easiest way up it . |
| 22 | Of special interest are books on papermaking , photography and heavy electrical engineering . |
| 23 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |
| 24 | There are books on many library shelves which become the subject of litigation , though not banned . |
| 25 | As a consequence there are books on many library shelves which may eventually have to be withdrawn , with or without litigation , not because of their content but because of their intent . |
| 26 | Indeed , the Ventura manual does n't even get around to mentioning the ruler until the end of section 5 in its manual and there are books on the program that do n't mention it at all ! |
| 27 | Do not I fill heaven and earth , if heaven and earth are words on my page ? |
| 28 | ‘ And there are buckles on your boots ? ’ |
| 29 | There are homes on the upper floors . |
| 30 | " Intellectuals are brothers on an equal footing with peasants and workers " , notes Aragon . |