Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm based on the moons of Jupiter from now on , and the only time I 'll come back to earth will be strictly on a day-trip basis . |
| 2 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 4 | If you were n't have said ooh I was listening on the phones and just a leave it on , you know the phones . |
| 5 | This was also the first of many operations at Poole in which I was involved on the cutters . |
| 6 | I was kept on the rails . |
| 7 | ‘ They knew I was a sniffer but I was put on a YTS placement to learn to be a carpet fitter . |
| 8 | But I was sitting on the sands of Ke Iki at midnight with a fairy-tale princess , a Botticelli Venus whose long blonde tresses reflected golden glints from the fire . |
| 9 | I was working on the gardens and we had to sweep all the grounds . |
| 10 | But overhead — I was standing on the steps down to the gravel — the stars were out . |
| 11 | J. Marshall , Tanners Hill Cottage , Crook : I was standing on the steps of Durham Crown Court waiting to go in the public gallery , the assizes were on . |
| 12 | The hay is laid across the poles ( which are supported on the trestles ) and lower wire triangle , leaving a small air space where the hay meets in the middle of the tripod . |
| 13 | The approval package does not contain module(s) which are listed on the DC(s) active via the package . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you ca n't really define good humbuckers any more , so I just sent the Seymour Duncans which are based on the originals , made the exact same way that the original humbuckers were . ’ |
| 15 | The Economic Development Division maintains its own filing system ; all other divisions use the central filing system for official correspondence and papers except for certain specialised project files which are held on the divisions . |
| 16 | The acquisition search service provided by MAS is based on the list of companies for sale which are held on the Accountants ' Business Network database jointly shared by the major accounting firms . |
| 17 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |
| 18 | … a small wingy , leggy item runs across the screen of the VDU , interrupting my thoughts , which are dwelling on the possibilities of a 1,000-word essay on a woodlice-breeding camp . |
| 19 | DataEase comes in three versions — all of which are supplied on the disks — and you 'll need less than 4Mb of hard disk space to run it . |
| 20 | The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years . |
| 21 | I could fill a book with the other similar comments which were written on the questionnaires but I think we can take it as read that the trials proved beyond doubt that if you followed the diet moderately strictly you could definitely lose inches from parts usually untouched by normal dieting methods . |
| 22 | And inwardly in his mind and in his thoughts , he will survey all the present creation and the worlds that have passed or are still standing ; the years of the world with all the happenings that occurred in it , and the men with their wealth and their power ; the revelations of the [ spiritual ] benefits which were bestowed on the Fathers , and the retributory judgements that took place generation after generation [ or ‘ birth after birth' ] , together with all the various vicissitudes which the affairs of the creation undergo . |
| 23 | The Spanish student who discovered them is now thought to have painted the cave with natural pigments but using modern rubber sponges , fragments of which were found on the walls . |
| 24 | I ask myself whether that is a fair summary which is based on the views of the body that will have the job of monitoring water sports and the safety of the water in which the water sports will take place . |
| 25 | Some of the nursing activities which might be relevant can be deduced from the following discussion , which is based on the reports of two studies of accidents in hospital . |
| 26 | However , of themselves , they offer no more than a functional approach to assessment , and therefore must be organized into a framework which is based on the principles defined above . |
| 27 | There is no reason why Tanzania should not combine an examination , which is based on the things we teach , with a teacher and pupil assessment of work done for the school and community . |
| 28 | In the light of the preceding discussion , however , I wish to suggest an alternative classification : one which is based on the intentions — albeit not necessarily conscious — that adults might have in modifying their speech in particular ways when talking to children . |
| 29 | This point is subject to any statutory restriction which is placed on the parties ' freedom to agree . |
| 30 | Cashiers ' keys which identify the cashier or shift which is printed on the folios ( bills ) vouchers and audit journals . |