Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Jenkins , of the National Occupational Hygiene Service charity , has said that ‘ Court cases over passive smoking are on the way . |
| 2 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 3 | Subjects like robotics and micro electronics are on the curriculum for a group of gifted ten year olds . |
| 4 | And despite the fact that Ministry are on the brink of a Metallica-scale take-over in the US , Barker hints that he and Jourgensen are now questioning how much further they actually want to push the band . |
| 5 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 6 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 7 | The particular forms of the study are on the transition to old age and the process of ageing . |
| 8 | i It is believed that the government and the tobacco industry are on the verge of signing a new voluntary agreement , according to a report in Marketing . |
| 9 | Nor will notions of contagion and susceptibility be on the agenda when we meet them . |
| 10 | Cups of half-finished tea were on the floor beside their chairs . |
| 11 | Anxiety , weakness , oppression and constriction in the chest ; sensation as if a great weight were on the chest . |
| 12 | FIVE prisoners being tried in connection with the Strangeways riot were on the run last night after escaping from a court . |
| 13 | Is there any joint and seems light , if the light were on the light catches them and you can see all the |
| 14 | None of the speakers suggested by the DUC were on the programme ; all the speakers , while ‘ allegedly neutral ’ , were considered pro-mining by the DUC . |
| 15 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 16 | We just have to write one side on the rational and one side on the method and the third side 's on the results . |
| 17 | Perhaps an exchange type deal is on the cards . |
| 18 | Dinmore Manor is on the site of a Knights Hospital dating back to the days of the crusades . |
| 19 | The monument is on the land of Blacksyde Farm , almost 3 miles east of the Muirkirk/Strathaven Road . |
| 20 | Hartlepool chairman , Garry H Gibson , says the future of H football is on the greenfield site even though he has no plans to relocate away from the Victoria Ground . |
| 21 | The urban riots of 1981 , the continuing troubles in Northern Ireland , and the headline-making supporters of many football clubs , combine to give the impression that crowd violence is on the increase in contemporary Britain . |
| 22 | They all agree violence is on the increase . |
| 23 | ‘ The changing-room is on the right , when you want to undress . |
| 24 | The opponent 's open side is on the left as you view him . |
| 25 | Her best is about the reaction to her public appearances : Every time Margi is on the television , she claims , she goes home to be pursued by her mother with buckets of holy water . |
| 26 | At two hundred and twenty pounds two forty two sixty , two eighty three hundred three hundred pounds , three twenty on the aisle three fifty three eighty three eighty on the aisle , bidding sir ? for three that bid 's on the aisle , three eighty , any more at three hundred , four hundred four hundred and twenty on the aisle at four twenty , now any more at four hundred and twenty pounds and I shall sell at four hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 27 | Two hundred against you both at two hundred pounds , the bid 's on the book at two hundred against you both , at two hundred and selling for two hundred , two twenty , two forty two sixty , two eighty any more sir ? |
| 28 | The Royal Bank 's Glasgow Club is on the look-out for new players . |
| 29 | Germany 's ambitious recycling programme is on the brink of collapse . |
| 30 | head teachers ensure all information about the school 's INSET programme is on the innovation exchange information sheets |