Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Tuesday I went in and they said that a letter would follow right that was on the Tuesday the twenty first something like that , then I never heard nothing from them until this came lunchtime post this Monday recorded delivery . |
| 2 | Did the first one right this was on er Wednesday afternoon you see ? |
| 3 | Apparently that was on television last week , they were , did a programme about tigers do n't know whether anyone saw it . |
| 4 | And er one of the ways you can use is er National Savings Income Bonds , er which are er okay , but they 're , the trouble is they 're at a variable rate , so at the moment they 're paying seven percent , so that 's on National Savings Income Bonds , so that that person would get seven hundred a year at the moment gross , and of course er you do n't need to t to fill in an R eighty five for that type of investment because it 's not a bank or building society account . |
| 5 | So that 's on Despatches on Channel Four next week . |
| 6 | So that 's on the down side . |
| 7 | You 're not supposed to be aware of it , you 're supposed to say normal , we sat in a pub last night and this man started telling me a dirty joke , so that 's on it . |
| 8 | so that 's on Saturday at three ? |
| 9 | So that was on her |
| 10 | A significant proportion of the population seems to eat less on Mondays ; not so many are on their new diet by the time Sunday comes around . |
| 11 | At the other end of the spectrum , J. Philip Bromberg 's Physical Chemistry ( Allyn & Bacon , 1980 ) has less than 20 pages on spectroscopy , of which only 4 are on NMR ! |
| 12 | The resulting film , The Quatermass Xperiment ( 1955 ) , tells of a spaceship returning to earth with only one being on board — a monster gestating inside the skin of a crew member . |
| 13 | When Richards was fifth out only 124 were on the board , and immediately after tea the innings collapsed totally . |
| 14 | The best that was on offer from the National Refugee Service in New York was cooperation to ‘ get in touch with American relatives and affiants and attempting to secure the steamship fare , or as much of it as possible , from them ’ . |
| 15 | Mostly these were on the west coast where glaciers moved faster since the snowfall was heavier near the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 16 | Of a number of radio and TV appearances , perhaps the most informative was on BBC Radio 4 's Sunday Programme . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | It was the first real ballet of John 's to be seen at Covent Garden , since his dances for operas had so far all been on a small scale , and it was far from being a success . |
| 19 | Now the Festival board is urging people to stake their claims to other events now as many are on the verge of selling out . |
| 20 | In uniform and in plain clothes , roughly 50 were on different shifts asking each shopper for more information . |
| 21 | The report estimated that about 38,000 of the 60,000 caravans were on sites for which permission , usually conditional or temporary , had been given ; about 12,000 had ‘ existing use ’ rights ; and about 10,000 were on sites which appeared to contravene planning control . |
| 22 | In the belt extending from Hoxne to the Orwell estuary the percentage of assessments below £2 hardly exceeded twenty , save in a few places , and overall more were on goods than on earnings . |
| 23 | Well that is on your mat . |
| 24 | Well that was on a Tuesday I believe the letter 's on the desk there . |
| 25 | Well that was on offer this week actually , that plus a great big bag of Minstrels I think was two , two fifty five |
| 26 | One or two more besides me alive today that was on it , but we was n't on it when it bursted up . |
| 27 | Today 3,800 are on the market used for over 100 functions . |
| 28 | In eastern Sussex most sub-£2 assessments were on earnings , but in central districts goods were the rule ; in the vale , in common with most of West Sussex , almost all were on wages , and , with much land under the plough , probably those of farm workers . |
| 29 | In November 1979 , there were just over 23,000 students taking agriculture courses leading to recognized qualifications in over forty further education establishments in England and Wales ; of these students almost 1,750 were on advanced courses , mainly full-time , and just over 21,300 on non-advanced courses , mainly part-time . |
| 30 | His images have appeared again and again in the magazine over the last ten years ( the most recent was on the cover of the cancer issue ) . |