Example sentences of "it [be] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
| 2 | Should n't it be on the floor ? |
| 3 | When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ . |
| 4 | The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) . |
| 5 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
| 6 | Her fresh-faced expression gazing as it were on the threshold of life is a poignant reminder of the passing of time and finite nature of dreams . |
| 7 | And , no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me , it were on the sheets . |
| 8 | When the cup was broken , they would remember it being on the table , but when it was on the table , they would not remember it being on the floor . |
| 9 | The potash mine is by far the biggest employer in the Whitby and Loftus areas and all local authorities have been considerate in their handling of problems caused by it being on the edge of a national park . |
| 10 | When the cup was broken , they would remember it being on the table , but when it was on the table , they would not remember it being on the floor . |
| 11 | and you 're at A , let's say , let's say , North is that way , okay , and you you set this up and you have a look , you say , where 's that lighthouse , oh it 's on a bearing of forty five degrees , and a lot later when you 've sailed sort of past the lighthouse , or the lighthouse is behind you , you take a bearing , and you still go around clockwise , |
| 12 | If you are going by train , make sure you know the train times ; it 's on a Sunday , remember . |
| 13 | Yeah it 's on a weekend when everybody comes out here to buy their trees and they 're parking they 're cars on the roundabout |
| 14 | Environmentalists say there 's a high risk of pollution from a new landfill site — because it 's on a layer of chalk . |
| 15 | er if you go to er , er a major store , if you go to Marks and Spencers , somewhere like that , it 's on a return basis , but with the market it 's a little bit here today gone tomorrow |
| 16 | It 's on a slant for some reason ! |
| 17 | cake stand , it 's at the back , it 's on a poster . |
| 18 | It 's on a bit . |
| 19 | We send yellow cards on all sorts of Ter-bin-a-fiene It 's on a day , I 'll give you fifty six . |
| 20 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 21 | It 's on a site next to Hereford Cathedral . |
| 22 | Yes erm er , it 's on a file somewhere . |
| 23 | I think it 's on a par with EIS systems like Pilot ( see panel ) , and we will use it , in due course , to handle exception reporting and that sort of thing . |
| 24 | It makes use of JPEG for bitmapped clip-art and in terms of features it 's on a par with PhotoFinish and CA-Paint . |
| 25 | Yes , well you know , as you come to the Boar 's Head you can , it 's on a crossroads is n't it ? |
| 26 | You ca n't , one flat 's not gon na be responsible for having the hall lit up all night long which it will be and then length of time , unless it 's on a timer switch . |
| 27 | and it 's got like a , a metal thing that comes from it and it 's on a pivot |
| 28 | ' It 's on a table by the pulpit . |
| 29 | Well it 's on , it 's on a Thursday , yeah . |
| 30 | And then it 's not spelt the same way as this when it 's on a boat |