Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 2 | Over 5,000 students are registered worldwide on the Masters programme , the majority studying the Distance Learning MBA . |
| 3 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 4 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 5 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |
| 6 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 7 | ( The abacus beads are scattered randomly on the wires of the abacus . ) |
| 8 | For each , engineering geology maps of the solid and superficial deposits are prepared on which materials are grouped together on the basis of their engineering characteristics . |
| 9 | They will also fit the 6 cylinder 109 if the bell housing is changed and the engine mounts are moved back on the chassis . |
| 10 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 11 | They are done weekly on the radio in the lunch hour , and people listen to them in factories by the million . |
| 12 | Operation ‘ Winch ’ , ' 3 April 1941. the first Hurricane IIA aircraft to be delivered to Malta are seen here on the dock of H.M.S. Ark Royal' . |
| 13 | Subsidies are granted only on the agreement that a set percentage of any budget must be spent in Hamburg . |
| 14 | The followers or ‘ administrative staff are selected not on the basis of status or qualification , but according to personal devotion . |
| 15 | Thieblot and Haggard emphasise that these observations are made only on the basis of ‘ preliminary analysis ’ and do not offer any empirical validation . |
| 16 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 17 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 18 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 19 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 20 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 21 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 22 | it 's not as if there 's anywhere where you can hire a bike I 'm sure you know , but , I suppose you 're going along on the road , across the road I |
| 23 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 24 | The old super temps I said so I said we 're going out on the piss . |
| 25 | Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team |
| 26 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 27 | You 're needed urgently on the crew deck . |
| 28 | If you 're staying elsewhere on the island you can join the wildlife walks for a day or more . |
| 29 | That 's why you 're tied up on the floor and I 'm aiming a gun at you . ’ |
| 30 | And the Monday especially if we 're travelling back on the Monday |