Example sentences of "[verb] be on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 2 | The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models . |
| 3 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 4 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 5 | Indeed , in most examples , the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction . |
| 6 | Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel . |
| 7 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 8 | Loco workings have now slumped to nearly zero and the only locos seen are on civil engineers ' trains . |
| 9 | This time he did n't miss , he shot past Stowell and United were on level terms , amazingly , they almost snatched the lead a minute later when a brilliant save by Stowell denied Simpson once again . |
| 10 | Those that are employed are on low wages ; the majority are unemployed . |
| 11 | She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees . |
| 12 | Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier . |
| 13 | It would seem that Miller can not have been on amicable terms with the gardeners there , otherwise he would have made a point of a visit then . |
| 14 | You hate being on social benefits . |
| 15 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 16 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 17 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 18 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 19 | Uhde , a young collector and dealer who had been on friendly terms with both painters since the early pre-Cubist days , in a book entitled Picasso et la Tradition Française which appeared in both French and German in 1928 , stressed the cardinal part played by Braque in the formation of Cubism . |
| 20 | In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man . |
| 21 | She hated arriving at places unannounced and , although Charles Caldecott had always been at his most ingratiating when he met her , that had been on social occasions . |
| 22 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 23 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 24 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 25 | A renowned ( albeit not a very successful ) crusader who had been on three expeditions , he had met and been entertained by the ablest monarchs in Europe . |
| 26 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 27 | But Karen had been on these holidays before . |
| 28 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 29 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |