Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The markings of my gun are on file at headquarters , ’ I reminded him gently . |
| 2 | Most of my driving is on tarmac with some beach work whilst on hols launching my boat . |
| 3 | No , I , it 's an enormous sum I mean I do n't think anybody in the West is spending er as much as ten percent on armaments and er I heard a on television not so long ago saying that in eighty percent of their industry is on armaments . |
| 4 | My argument here is not on that issue , since the focus of their attention was on Parliament and parliamentary procedure and I want to introduce the other side of reform into the debate — where it has received insufficient attention . |
| 5 | It showed just 25 minutes of the three-day World Cup in Barcelona ( the rest of its coverage was on Channel 4 ) . |
| 6 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 7 | Within seconds of Kinnock completing the call a full recording of his conversation was on its way back to Fort Meade and , from there , back to GCHQ in Cheltenham . |
| 8 | A report of his address is on page 2 . |
| 9 | The spokeswoman added : ‘ The man was found on the front doorstep and the body of his wife was on the floor of the living room . |
| 10 | A permanent exhibition of his work is on show at |
| 11 | Much of his work was on pottery already in museum collections , or as a pottery assistant to Bushe-Fox , but at Templebrough , he was director of the excavations which had been made necessary by the extension of the large steel works at the end of the Great War . |
| 12 | The prime focus of his speech was on the need to achieve population control in the third world by tackling poverty and child mortality and by improving education and the prospects for women . |
| 13 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 14 | THE BACK OF YOUR AMBULANCE IS ON FIRE |