Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] be on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this week , he asked how effective the flood defences had been on February 20 and what changes to policy , investment programme and evacuation procedures were planned . |
| 2 | Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay . |
| 3 | The pick of Britain 's finest Hereford beef cattle has been on sale today . |
| 4 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 5 | It is , as far as can be remembered , the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike — the very core of the working class who made the revolution possible . |
| 6 | A quarter of the country 's coal miners have been on strike for three weeks demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev , the dissolution of the Soviet parliament and the transfer of power to the Federation Council , composed of the elected leaders of the 15 republics . |
| 7 | Two of the police surgeons had been on holiday and the third , Doctor Maingay , who did a locum for her father 's old practice when needed , had not been available until Sunday morning . |
| 8 | Already since April 11 railway workers in western Georgia and dockers at the Black Sea ports had been on strike in protest at the presence of Soviet troops in the troubled South Ossetia region . |