Example sentences of "[prep] [det] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common position for this is on the last lexical word ( e.g. noun , adjective , verb , adverb as distinct from the function words introduced in Chapter 12 , p. 102 ) of the tone-unit . |
| 2 | They had after all been on board . |
| 3 | but erm a tenth of that No sorry , three tenths of that is on the Wirral . |
| 4 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 5 | The result is that we 've received over 3,000 hours of new work , and most of this is on priority jobs . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most interesting example of this is on the Burroughs B6700 , illustrated in Figure 2.10 . |
| 7 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
| 8 | But , according to a recent report by Oxfam , a British charity with much African experience , most of this was on loans that were not being repaid anyway , so barely dented the servicing problem . |
| 9 | How many of these are on Tyneside ( along the river Tyne from Newcastle and Gateshead to Tynemouth and South Shields ) ? |
| 10 | How many of these are on the floodplain of the river ? |
| 11 | The most important of these are on huge pots , designed not for use but to stand on graves . |
| 12 | The only major gaps in an otherwise even pattern of settlements are the present villages , and it is likely that many if not most of these are on earlier sites . |
| 13 | three of these are on Teesside : at Wilton , also the location of the headquarters ; Billingham ; and North tees , alongside the PIP refinery . |
| 14 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 15 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 16 | Seven of these were on the British side , where the contractors were fined 50,000 in March 1990 after the fifth death . |
| 17 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 18 | At the end of this terrace was a brick wall some ten feet in height behind which were the gardens of the Milford Hill houses , the first of these was on the corner of the streets . |
| 19 | The most scary task of all was on nights of thick , low cloud when we had to use the cloud searchlight , located on the far side of the airfield , to work out the cloud height . |
| 20 | Lastly the worst of all was on p 456 calling the former British colony ‘ Vanuata ’ instead of ‘ Vanuatu ’ . |
| 21 | Details of those are on plot two . |
| 22 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 23 | number of days per institution and then the weighting over and above that is on the number of pupils , mm . |
| 24 | As they were richer , better dressed , louder , knew one another but above all were on their home ground — like home football supporters — they soon flooded out my own small , heroic little band . |
| 25 | er , I did n't mean to that 's on tape Clare |
| 26 | Otherwise how could speaker Lentor tell the King that the speaker on that 's on that occasion could only be instructed by parliament . |
| 27 | Yeah , that was on that was on |
| 28 | In the case of the large professional partnership , Fama and Jensen argue that the shareholders in such a firm have enough knowledge about its activities to be able to protect their interests , without either the need to all be on the board , or to have recourse to external representatives . |
| 29 | She grabbed the copy of Racing Post that was on the table . |
| 30 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |