Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you consider one large modern power station , that would require approximately one thousand windmills each the size of the largest electricity pylons we see these days , and since the best sites for wind energy are on hilltops , where the wind is strongest , or around the coast , where again it 's strong , this would require placing large numbers of windmills on the best hilltop views or beautiful coasting situations , and I think that would be as unacceptable as would an explosion in nuclear power stations — sorry , I do n't mean a — expansion in nuclear power stations . |
| 2 | The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices . |
| 3 | THE art of clog dancing was on display in Darlington at the weekend . |
| 4 | The majority of investment expenditure is on fixed capital formation rather than inventories and it is to this that we now turn . |
| 5 | In the end , seventeen different forms of motive power were on display along with a wide range of other railway related attractions . |
| 6 | Hartlepool chairman , Garry H Gibson , says the future of H football is on the greenfield site even though he has no plans to relocate away from the Victoria Ground . |
| 7 | By the late 1960s the emphasis of government policy was on the creation of new irrigation complexes , covering an additional million acres at a time when Gezira was experiencing major problems of productivity . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is right to point out that the powers of executive detention are on the statute book and are available for use . |
| 9 | The overt expression of that passivity and self-condemnation is that a whole range of the voices of public opinion are on the side of what you and I call the criminals . |
| 10 | When you read anything that any anthropologist has written on the topic of kinship terminology be on your guard . |
| 11 | Of that , around £60m of school purchasing was on ‘ trade ’ as opposed to text books , or ‘ what in other terms is thought of as children 's and teenage publishing ’ . |
| 12 | and they were talking about a new system which I could n't hear because of vacuum cleaner was on |
| 13 | As mentioned in the previous chapter the main emphasis during the early stages of language learning is on the pronunciation . |
| 14 | A player who began his career with Billingham Town is on a short-list of six which , surprisingly , includes three other defenders . |
| 15 | How big will the effect of changes in money supply be on output , employment and prices ? |
| 16 | Details of our 1993 Art in Nature competition are on pages 6 to 7 of this issue . |
| 17 | Secondly , although the diverse bases of cultural differentiation — ethnicity , class , gender , region , etc. — are acknowledged , the primary emphasis in multiculturalist analysis is on ethnicity , such that economic and sexual differentiations within the minority communities , for example , continue to be ignored ( cf. |
| 18 | In general , in the authority 's industrialized areas the emphasis in pollution control is on cleaning up heavily polluted rivers . |
| 19 | It was not long before two sloops from Portsmouth dockyard were on the scene . |
| 20 | IN THE muddy red fields of Musengezi , a lesson in land reform is on display . |
| 21 | Young Dan Tennant , a farm labourer from Bakers Farm was on his way home for lunch . |
| 22 | Choices , in addition to research activity being on behalf of some printing firms to external clients . |
| 23 | Liability to inheritance tax is on UK situated assets only . |
| 24 | Yet to much of the British public , Jon Solly 's last visit to Planet Earth was on the occasion of his surprise 10,000m at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh — one of the highlights of the event . |
| 25 | ‘ We need time to debate some of these issues , to decide what new appeal , what fresh approach we make to those voters who have not yet been persuaded to come to us , ’ he said on BBC TV 's On the Record programme . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been in politics a bit longer than some of my colleagues , ’ he said on BBC TV 's On the Record yesterday . |
| 27 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 28 | Replying to common criticism that Margaret Thatcher tended to be a one-woman band , Mr Baker said on BBC television 's On the Record : ‘ I think there will be a growing amount of Cabinet discussion . |
| 29 | For this reason the concentration on TV advertising is on compilation albums and greatest hits collections . |
| 30 | ‘ Most of our land at Home Farm is on exposed hillside and is too frozen to plough at present . ’ |