Example sentences of "be on [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's if you 're on enough books to be able to get supply for every day , if you do n't mind just flitting around . |
| 2 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |
| 3 | Operation will be on all bands ( including WARC ) and VHF two-metres . |
| 4 | They 'd fix you up with er better bonus , but if you were a black leg they 'd er be on less wagers . |
| 5 | All the main news and current affairs programmes from Today through to the Midnight News will be on both frequencies . |
| 6 | All the main news and current affairs programmes from Today through to the Midnight News will be on both frequencies . |
| 7 | And the focus of the new interest was not to be on those sectors originally envisaged as targets , but on the unlikely and controversial issue of defence . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall still be on these drugs for some time yet . |
| 9 | The focus here , however , will not be on these issues of politics and crime prevention . |
| 10 | In Lindsey ( Eagles 1979 , pp. 177–8 ) it has been shown that 11 per cent are on such boundaries and 18 per cent within 500 feet . |
| 11 | It is important that those who are on such diets long term take care to ensure an adequate intake of essential nutrients . |
| 12 | Electric windows and mirrors , central locking , rear heating , rear wash/wipe and a tilt wheel are on all models , but today 's hard-pressed executive has to find another £701 for a sunroof and £1,092 for air conditioning . |
| 13 | In fact there are on these computers at least four word-oriented data-types ; instructions are provided for fixed-point binary arithmetic on 16-bit half-words ( 2 consecutive bytes ) as well as 32-bit words ( or full-words ) , and for floating-point arithmetic on 32-bit words and 64-bit double words ( 8 consecutive bytes ) . |
| 14 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 15 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 16 | But Karen had been on these holidays before . |
| 17 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 18 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 19 | It 's been on several days recently . |
| 20 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 21 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 22 | Between July and November 1916 on this front there were on both sides three million men in arms , of which the dead , wounded and shell-shocked would amount to one million two hundred thousand . |
| 23 | I had the dubious pleasure , after Second Reading , of trying to pilot the House of Lords reform Bill through the House many years ago , when we found that the divisions were on both sides of the House and any idea that one could timetable or guillotine soon went out of the window . |
| 24 | Hence , great pastor , preacher , and luminous expounder of the faith though he was , and moderate though his views were on most matters concerning the relations between the Church and secular society , his most cherished views were all doomed to failure from the start : they neither moved with the times , nor stood firm in the practical conveniences of the past . |
| 25 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's on more walls in more houses than any other picture in the country , ’ Trevor said mildly . |
| 27 | It 's on these figures which in effect any Committee reductions will be made . |
| 28 | It 's there , what it is it 's on these pages |
| 29 | having the flu , near a fortnight ago now , she 's on these pills and she 's as bad as ever , and not sleeping again . |
| 30 | Having said that , lately I 've heard him and he 's trying to get back some of his fire , but the originals , the ‘ Disraeli Gears ’ album and the Bluesbreakers … he does n't come close to the fire that 's on those songs any more . |