Example sentences of "the [noun sg] are on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although there are hundreds of freshwater lochs in Shetland , the majority are on the acidic peatlands and do not produce enough underwater vegetation to satisfy the needs of big grazing birds like swans . |
| 2 | Two-thirds of the homes have been constructed and the remainder are on target for an autumn completion . |
| 3 | Mike 's plans for the future are on hold . |
| 4 | Members of the department are on call 24 hours-a-day . |
| 5 | The particular forms of the study are on the transition to old age and the process of ageing . |
| 6 | This last comment does n't mean that we can strap on our sixshooters and holsters , but rather the guns of the artillery are on call if we should have a chance to use them . |
| 7 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 8 | And that 's those dimples are the bottom are on the bottom bit of your spine so if the dimples are n't level it means that bit of your back is slightly |
| 9 | CHOUILLY : Vines closest to the village are on Micraster chalk , but the Butte de Saran is pure Belemnite , becoming heavily influenced by sand , sandstone , clay and lignites . |
| 10 | The vineyards on the Cuis side of the village are on rich clay , sand , sandstone and lignite soil , covered in places by an accumulation of loess and colluvium . |
| 11 | To my mind the Luo are on a par with the Welsh because everyone sings . |
| 12 | Boss Jeff Willis says : ‘ The best deals at the moment are on postal accounts . |
| 13 | The police squad dealing with the investigation are on 0594 836494 . |
| 14 | We must keep constantly in mind the idea that since these two aspects of the body are on different and incommunicable levels of being , they can not be reduced to one another . |
| 15 | The rest of the team are on their way … ’ |
| 16 | Two of the late-Georgian or early-Victorian villas halfway up the hill are on the market . |
| 17 | God and the truth are on our side , ’ Nukri Kakilashvili , a member of the Georgian soccer federation 's directorate , said on national television . |
| 18 | God and the truth are on our side . ’ |
| 19 | The goals of the organisation are on the whole shared or accepted by its members : only the means of achieving them are in dispute . |
| 20 | IMPROVEMENTS at the double are on the way for shops in Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | The duo are on course to meet in the Tripleprint Feltham Chase after convincing wins on Saturday . |
| 22 | As jewels and goldsmiths ' work from the Thurn und Taxis family go under the hammer this month at Sotheby 's Geneva , other , even more historically evocative works of art from the collection are on show in the Belgian Archives Géneral to celebrate nearly 500 years of the world 's oldest postal service , founded by the Thurn und Taxis , which began with a link between the imperial residence of the Habsburgs in Innsbruck and the court of Margaret of York in Malines , Belgium . |
| 23 | His 180 paintings , drawings , collages , sculptures , ceramics , printing blocks and plates by the artist are on show at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona until 30 January and then go to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne ( 27 February-16 May ) before joining the ‘ Ludwigslust ’ celebrations of all aspects of the Ludwig collection on the occasion of the reopening of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg ( 18 June-10 October ) . |
| 24 | If the new Clause is accepted , it will be a signal to every fascist and everyone opposed to homosexuality that the Government are on their side . ' |
| 25 | In addition , the Farsetti Collection of terracottas from the Hermitage are on show concurrently at the Ca' d'Oro . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , cells that will form the gut are on the outside surface of many early embryos . |
| 27 | Newcastle Polytechnic 's plans to expand in the North-West are on the verge of a housing crisis months before the first students move into its £1m Carlisle campus . |
| 28 | And remember that the audience are on your side . |
| 29 | B — can not get loose and seems to be choking and the crowd are on their feet yelling and waving their hands — the referee helped by both seconds manages to extricate B — but P — grabs him , a quick aeroplane spin , gets him with his left hand round the shoulder , right hand through his left , swings him three times round in the air and pins him with his shoulders on the floor for the count of three . |
| 30 | The fastest railway wheels in the world are on a new bogie developed by the German company Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm . |