Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] be on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of vulture banks , the study suggests that turkeys might be a better name for those whose stock prices were on average 15% lower than that of their peer group — or dead ducks for those 25% lower . |
| 2 | The company flats and rehearsal studios were on short leaseholds . |
| 3 | These brick buildings are on three storeys , the first two being unexceptional Victorian terraced houses arranged round a courtyard , but the floor above them has the characteristic long windows of textile workshops . |
| 4 | The guidelines sent to the the county council reveal that up to 400 ministry of defence officials are on standby to take over . |
| 5 | Security forces were on full scale alert after finding a bomb making base in West Belfast a fortnight ago . |
| 6 | The distinctive emphasis then in all elite theory accounts is on multiple causation in social development — the influence of a diversity of factors such as economic change and property relations , religions and ideological systems , political and military leadership , technological change , environmental or even wholly fortuitous factors . |
| 7 | Up ahead the traffic lights were on red but he did n't slow up . |
| 8 | Most of the Science & Engineering departments are on this site , Geology and Geophysics ( in the Grant Institute and also the James Clerk Maxwell Building ) , the School of Biology and the School of Engineering , also a number of governmental scientific research institutes including the Scottish Agricultural College . |
| 9 | The chocolate bars are on Big Mal if they start with three points . |
| 10 | In with the guillemots were small parties of gannets , and we wondered if there was a breeding colony this far north , as most gannet colonies are on sub-Arctic islands . |
| 11 | Yeah , cos the Rug Rats are on first . |
| 12 | Three days of rioting by Miami 's black community followed the killing , and police and city officials were on full alert yesterday for a resumption of the riots if the jury acquitted the Hispanic-American policeman . |
| 13 | Three days of rioting by Miami 's black community followed the killing , and police and city officials were on full alert yesterday for a resumption of the riots if the jury acquitted the Hispanic-American policeman . |
| 14 | The twin towers are on French pattern , but one spire was built , the north one . |
| 15 | Elaine how many erm film , how many film slots are on this film ? |
| 16 | If the autoset lever is on 0 ( and the pick knob on — ) the ribber carriage slips even when the set levers are on 1 . |