Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] is on " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 A new woodturning system specifically developed for schools is on test in Scottish schools .
2 HEARTH : Shelving for CDs is on each side
3 For Tobias is on the dresser : one meal a day on the kitchen window-ledge ( otherwise the hedgehog gets it ) .
4 It talks of anecdotal evidence in 1991 that the carrying of knives is on the increase among young people and it quotes Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley , who works in east London , as saying : ’ I have never known so many people to be carrying these weapons . ’
5 The focus of analyses is on relative valuations at different points in the life cycle using scaling techniques developed within social psychology .
6 First prize of tapes worth £100 goes to of while the second prize of £50 worth of tapes is on its way to of and the third prize of £25 worth of tapes goes to of .
7 Registration and selection of cattle is on a national basis and there is also a fully automated cattle information system .
8 ‘ A visit to the city of dreams is on offer from the Northern Sinfonia on their next visit to Middlesbrough , ’ it discloses .
9 Following the Glanrhyd tragedy BR is safety conscious and a firm of divers is on national contract to BR to inspect affected bridges .
10 The railway company 's coat of arms is on the western portal of local stone , while a plaque at the other end records the name of the engineer who built it , Josiah Jessop .
11 Quite naturally the focus of teachers is on the classroom , their principal concern is the business of teaching and learning .
12 The funding of CTCs is on a par with that of other local education authority schools , and their recurrent funding will not be different from that of other schools in their areas .
13 A TREASURY of drawings is on show at the National Gallery of Scotland at the Mound , Edinburgh .
14 A tigress with cubs is on her own .
15 A balanced diet for bugs is on the menu , thanks to C&P .
16 Cath from T-shirts is on crutches after treading barefoot on broken glass trying to break up a skinhead brawl .
17 MORE than £2,500 in prizes is on offer to Friesian breeders in the 1993 BOCM Pauls Premier Breeder Awards Scheme organised in association with the Holstein Friesian Society .
18 According to a recent RSPCA report , cruelty to animals is on the increase , yet , using one of the privileges of his beloved free society , he condones a form of ritualistic animal abuse merely because it is a ‘ tradition ’ within a tiny percentage of our population .
19 Accommodation for residents is on the ground floor or well-serviced by lifts .
  Next page