Example sentences of "[noun pl] be on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTVEC courses for beginners are on the basis of a half day per week for one year while the NWRAC Home Machine Knitting Course requires a full day per week for two years , or three if Part 2 is included . |
| 2 | Its part is written a perfect fifth higher than it plays and as long as its notes are on the stave it sounds well . |
| 3 | Some of pop 's flavour-of-the-month acts are on the bill . |
| 4 | Since these appropriation accounts are on the cash basis , accounting standards would hardly seem relevant . |
| 5 | Yes the ducks are on the road . |
| 6 | Once policies are on the statute books , there is reluctance to change them , or change is very slow and largely through non-statutory guidance . |
| 7 | To take an example , the observation that shareholders are on the whole behaving passively is consistent with the view that they know little about the firm and consequently leave everything to the manager . |
| 8 | Fruit and vegetables are on the ground and first floors , with flush on the floor below . |
| 9 | Poisonings are on the increase , with 64,000 cases reported nationally last year . |
| 10 | The other two or three hours are on the floor . |
| 11 | MEMBERSHIP FORMS ARE ON THE TABLE |
| 12 | It 's from a guy who knows where the body is , and who knows exactly whose dabs are on the shiv . |
| 13 | Nearly one million Somalians are on the brink of death by starvation or disease . |
| 14 | Another thirty Health and Safety proposals are on the way such as that on working time in the news last week and another to restore the protection for young people at work which we 've lost over the last decade , and just as important the union has just n not just reacting to what 's coming out of Brussels , it 's actually helping set the agenda . |
| 15 | The quality can be high , but terracottas are on the whole cheap products for the local market , and so give valuable indication of the styles prevalent in particular places . |
| 16 | You will have to go to the local council offices yourself to find out what plans are on the horizon . |
| 17 | The Osaka Police Department says plans are on the board to increase monitoring of computer bulletin boards used to distribute and sell illegal pornography . |
| 18 | How long it will be before branded products are on the market is a function of how high the specification is cut and the time it takes to generate the test suites . |
| 19 | He is delighted with the way in which the players have responded to new coach Stewart McKinney , and is hopeful that better times are on the way . |
| 20 | Early times are on the left , and late times are on the right . |
| 21 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 22 | The children 's roundabouts are on the right . |
| 23 | He held that as between the defendant and the building society ‘ all the equities are on the building society 's side . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They say they will set most of the passengers free when their brothers are on the plane . |
| 25 | Right , that 's the surprises out of the way , for Blueboy are , together with co-headliners Brighter , residents of the Sarah Records stable , which means that delicate , dreamy , demure guitar songs are on the agenda and crotch-related stage action is not . |
| 26 | There , when animals are on the move , there is little social structure , merely a mass of advancing animals . |
| 27 | The Golconda eyes are on the horizon to which our boat is hounding us , but Monsoon 's never at a loss for an answer . |
| 28 | If attention and eyes are on the washing-up , it is unwise to try to speechread as well and frustrating to stop in the middle to look at the speaker ( possibly expensive in breakages too ! ) |
| 29 | No , one suspects that Chesky 's eyes are on the till , a suspicion confirmed by the billing on these 1962 recordings as ‘ DDD ’ . |
| 30 | Their eyes are on the side of their heads so they have an all-round view . |