Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [am/are] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , the more moderate of them are insisting on the maintenance of their block votes because the party is still not fully democratic . |
| 2 | So many of them are based on wordplay , puns . ’ |
| 3 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 4 | Two of them are shown on the right with their lines of symmetry drawn . |
| 5 | they might be out of the divisional area but you , they might just as well be for the amount of you 're spending on them . |
| 6 | If Dickens could come back and watch the debate , he would see that most of us are dwelling on the surface of the problem , while beneath the surface something is wrong in England and Wales . |
| 7 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 8 | Some of us are going on holiday . |
| 9 | Most of us are measured on the some form of performance they do . |
| 10 | These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places . |
| 11 | Her materials consist of marble dust , gypsum cement , resins and rhoplex , but the ways in which she works with them are based on a kind of body language , using gestures that are related to her subject matter . |
| 12 | I have great pleasure in proposing the honorary officers for appointment as they are printed on your order paper . |
| 13 | It 's hard to keep your eyes away from documents people beside you are reading on the train , especially when they are X/Open Co Ltd internal memoranda : the one seen by a Unigram.X spy at Lewisham , South London last week promised in its first paragraph ‘ a 0% payrise ’ for unfortunate X/Open employees . |
| 14 | no oh you are slow , come on you 're going on a journey , not in a car |
| 15 | Full details of how to go about it are shown on page 7 . |