Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use . |
| 2 | But it says here should a tribunal require them to pay a basic award for compensation then that payment is on the basis that it 's offered and accepted in satisfaction er towards those payments . |
| 3 | At two hundred and twenty pounds two forty two sixty , two eighty three hundred three hundred pounds , three twenty on the aisle three fifty three eighty three eighty on the aisle , bidding sir ? for three that bid 's on the aisle , three eighty , any more at three hundred , four hundred four hundred and twenty on the aisle at four twenty , now any more at four hundred and twenty pounds and I shall sell at four hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 4 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 5 | So make sure that dot is on the centre there . |
| 6 | The vocational profession of Alpine shepherd is on the wane , an arduous life with unreliable income . |
| 7 | Those who doubt it should consider these words of a club owner : ‘ Professional baseball is on the wane . |
| 8 | Subjects like robotics and micro electronics are on the curriculum for a group of gifted ten year olds . |
| 9 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 10 | The focus of this chapter is on the government side of the equations . |
| 11 | Although we shall return to unit costs briefly , the main focus of this chapter is on the use ( and abuse ) of demographic and related data , which feature in population estimates and in the derivation of specific deprivation indicators and of estimates of risk groups or client populations . |
| 12 | Might I take the liberty of reminding Sir that Sir 's favourite programme 's on the air soon ? |
| 13 | James 's sentences in this passage are on the average much shorter than those of Conrad ( 35 words per sentence ) . |
| 14 | So that the the good bit 's on the bottom the buttered bread 's on the bottom . |
| 15 | The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life . |
| 16 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 17 | Whether the emphasis in mystical theology is on the interaction of those God-given human faculties which are understood as an image of his being and the means by which man may realise the love and truth manifested in the Incarnation , or on the essential unknowability of the transcendent source from whence that love and truth emanated in time , there is common ground between the two approaches in the sense of a dynamic with which man may engage . |
| 18 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 19 | A PAY squeeze on the public sector is on the way , Chancellor Lamont warned last night . |
| 20 | So he said , you were on the right and this lady was on the left near the gutter side ? |
| 21 | With Puddephat out of the way , the English faculty were on the spot . |
| 22 | A suspected burglar is on the run after he escaped from police by jumping through a court room window . |
| 23 | A suspected burglar is on the run after he escaped from police by jumping through a court room window . |
| 24 | The reports drifting out of Baghdad suggest that an accord of some sort is on the way . |
| 25 | But I would like to clarify exactly what the effect of this amendment is on the question of erm council 's policy on the items already on the list . |
| 26 | ‘ And this picture was on the easel then ? ’ |
| 27 | The most serious risk of flooding this evening is on the River Wye between Ross on Wye and Hereford.The National Rivers authority has issued a red alert along the whole stretch until midnight.And there are also flood warnings on the River Severn in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.The situation is being monitored at the NRA 's control room in Tewkesbury : |
| 28 | ‘ without lawful authority or reasonable excuse ’ The proof of this point is on the defence and they must prove on the balance of probabilities that the accused had it with him with lawful authority or reasonable excuse . |
| 29 | Indeed , if anything , the incidence of this need is on the increase . |
| 30 | In general there appears little to challenge the important conclusion of Mathias and O'Brien that the main economic incidence of British taxation was on the level of effective demand , for the majority of the taxpayers were not savers . |