Example sentences of "[adj] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the 31 pits on British Coal 's hit list is Point of Ayr , near Prestatyn , where the jobs of 478 are on the line . |
| 2 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 3 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 4 | PAYOUTS of up to £1 million each are on the way for survivors of the M1 air crash . |
| 5 | Riga Microsoft/Sympatex jackets worth £143 each are on their way to second prize winners M Geldard of South Ruislip , Middlesex and Kathleen Floyd of Settle . |
| 6 | Okay has that been on there long ? |
| 7 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 8 | Details about nutritional supplements to prevent this are on page 55 . |
| 9 | Most of the English are on this side of the river , naturally , since they besiege Berwick . |
| 10 | GEC supplied the equipment for assembly at BREL Crewe , and although software problems delayed entry into service until the early part of 1989 , the prototype batch of ten ( another twenty-one are on order ) were a regular sight on King 's Cross-Peterborough commuter and some Leeds service by the end of the year . |
| 11 | Some are on offer at site value . |
| 12 | Some are on split levels , all are comfortable , full of atmosphere , and boasting an abundance of beautiful furniture and rafted ceilings . |
| 13 | Many of the traditional monopolies applicable in the legal profession are under attack and some are on the point of disappearing . |
| 14 | Some are on a twenty-five-year hold , some fifty … |
| 15 | At Gagosian , from 5 November to 9 January , a selection of ‘ Ocean Parks ’ from the years between 1965 and 1985 are on view , some of them on loan from museums ( Yale , the Metropolitan , MoMA ) and some from private collections . |
| 16 | The 2,250 people employed two years ago have been cut to about 1,000 , of whom 300 are on ‘ short-time working with nil hours ’ ; the workforce will be down to 600 by December . |
| 17 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 18 | The report said that of 1,330 active oil wells , about 700 were on fire at the end of April , with between 2,000,000-6,000,000 barrels lost a day , and it estimated that bringing the fires under control " may take up to 18 months " . |
| 19 | Of full-time professionals playing for a major club like Sheffield United in 1934–5 only four out of twenty-one were on the maximum wage . |
| 20 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 21 | Some were on cartridge paper , some on pages torn from what looked like school exercise books , and some on folded , green-lined computer print-out . |
| 22 | Some were on new bicycles , |
| 23 | CHOCOLATE Flake bars up to five years old were on sale in a rural Co Down shop , it was disclosed today . |
| 24 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 25 | The , admittedly the French and the British were on the right side , they won the war , but France er was er battered in the war , lost an awful lot of people , it 's a common and although this country , although , you know , fighting in Britain , the er , British economy was also badly damaged . |
| 26 | Of the Survey 's staff in Scotland , 12 were on active military service , Bailey and Richey being decorated for bravery . |
| 27 | But what does seem clear is on the one hand the absence of any straightforward link between sexual activity per se and social morality ; and on the other , the inability and sometimes unwillingness of the ecclesiastical authorities to enforce stricter single standards . |
| 28 | The result is that we 've received over 3,000 hours of new work , and most of this is on priority jobs . |
| 29 | ‘ This is on me . ’ |
| 30 | This is on the understanding that it is you personally who will be preparing the material . |