Example sentences of "[was/were] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While declining to say what his views were on proportional representation , he promised to continue Labour 's debate on electoral reform now being considered by an internal committee . |
| 2 | But you see it 's jut new regulations and a lot of the graveyards were on sandy ground and they 'd be quite liable |
| 3 | Over a third of the additional stations opened in the London area after 1919 were on Southern Region . |
| 4 | Thus , in England and Wales in 1971 there were 311,000 students in advanced further education , of whom 204,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including 113,000 on initial teacher training , and 107,000 on part-time courses . |
| 5 | By 1981 , the numbers of students had grown considerably to 377,000 : of these 209,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including only 27,000 on initial teacher training , and 168,000 on part-time courses . |
| 6 | Of the former , 10.1 per cent were on full-time courses and 11.4 on part-time day release . |
| 7 | Some of these guns were on the top of the submarine pens , others were on concrete towers as large as a couple of houses but far more strongly built . |
| 8 | they were on about , talking about it last night were n't they ? , they , back in the fifties they were on eight pound a week |
| 9 | David Ward then came in and thumped a spectacular half century in 40 balls and Surrey were on 178 for four at the premature close , with off-spinner Peter Such suffering the most — his six overs costing 66 runs . |
| 10 | The provision of art and design education has grown relatively slowly in the post-war period so that in November 1979 , for example , there were only 34,707 students taking courses leading to recognized qualifications in art and design of whom 19,988 were on non-advanced courses , and 14,719 on advanced courses ; these represented just over two per cent of all students in further education studying for recognized qualifications . |
| 11 | Instead of vulture banks , the study suggests that turkeys might be a better name for those whose stock prices were on average 15% lower than that of their peer group — or dead ducks for those 25% lower . |
| 12 | Before the war , Unionists had pointed to the huge disparity between the smallest and largest seats ( in 1910 Kilkenny had an electorate of a few hundred and Romford an electorate of over 50,000 ) , and had noted that Unionist constituencies were on average larger than Liberal constituencies , far larger than those of Nationalists in Ireland . |
| 13 | In Cryptopygus antarcticus , the subject of intensive studies by Tilbrook ( 1977 ) and Block ( 1982 ) , specimens from South Georgia were on average smaller and lighter in weight , and matured at smaller size , than those from Signy Island , but respiration-weight and metabolism-temperature curves of the two stocks were similar . |
| 14 | The areas enclosed in the south of the county were on average larger than those in the east , so it is likely that enclosure there took place at a time when conditions were more conducive to the practice . |
| 15 | MINISTERS and MPs were on alert for a late night Commons showdown as the Maastricht treaty bill rumbled into its 17th day . |
| 16 | The end was in sight for Victoria , and the last departures via Woodhead were on 4th January 1970 . |
| 17 | These and other activities , such as commercial involvement in the conversion of a priory into a luxury hotel and the lobbying for historic designation status , created tension between the new , active residents and the majority of residents who were on low incomes and rented their homes . |
| 18 | Until recently the plates were on long-term loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh , having been lent in 1956 by collector and supporter of the North Carolina Museum , Robert Humber who purchased them in 1938 . |
| 19 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
| 20 | Colin Hamilton 's Gogar and Douglas Dryburgh 's Aviemore were on five wins each and the four looked likely to make tomorrow 's semi-finals , though David Aitken 's Galleon were still in with a chance . |
| 21 | some people were on fixed incomes |
| 22 | Only a few women were on equal terms with their husbands and they recognised their relationships as exceptional . |
| 23 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 24 | Dog-handlers were on standby to tackle pit bull terriers kept at several of the addresses . |
| 25 | He confirmed that the RAF were on standby to join in any such operation and that talks between Britain the US and the United Nations would take place on the issue . |
| 26 | The path they were on continued to twist and wind until suddenly he paused to place a hand on her arm . |
| 27 | Other issues were raised such as the practice of banning Chinese from western hotels in the major cities unless they were on official business or actually accompanying foreigners . |
| 28 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 29 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |
| 30 | Stephen Navin was urging that the case should be allowed to go to court : Virgin , he argued , were on solid ground . |