Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm singing on one track , I think , in the background … very quietly ! |
| 2 | I 'm standing on one hip , propped up like a nonchalant horse on a summer 's day , making heavy work of waiting for him . |
| 3 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 4 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 5 | I was born on 2 April 1960 in St Andrews in Kingston . |
| 6 | I was born on 2 January 1893 , the third son of Frederick Louis Wilder , F.C.S. , M.I.M.M. , who , at the time , was an assayer in the City . |
| 7 | I was working on one side of the car and the boot lid dropped . |
| 8 | Many kinds of gall insect produce two types of gall , which are found on two kinds of plant . |
| 9 | The Faculty is made up of four departments which are housed on two sites . |
| 10 | The subsidiaries which held and operated the refining and marketing operations which were sold on 6 July 1992 were not consolidated and certain borrowings , attributable to these businesses , were also separated and included within businesses held for resale at the end of 1991 . |
| 11 | ‘ The documents specified above relate specifically to photocopies numbering approximately 5,000 pages , which were transported on 22 March 1991 from [ a Middle East state ] to the London offices of [ a London firm of solicitors ] . |
| 12 | The bid and the general shift in mood against diversification highlights a fundamental problem which faces a company which is based on one product with limited growth prospects . |
| 13 | … we want to create a socialist society which is based on three principles : equality and respect for human dignity ; sharing resources which are produced by our efforts ; work by everyone . ’ |
| 14 | It has a central dome , nine feet in diameter , on a high drum pierced by small windows , which is supported on four piers . |
| 15 | After crossing the Border Charles 's army had split up , but the two sections were reunited at Abington , between Moffat and Douglas , after which , with a short interval between them , both went on to Glasgow , which was preached on 26 December . |
| 16 | In another letter read out to the Zoological Society in his absence , but which was written on 10 May 1839 , he recalls : |
| 17 | The Mummerys therefore placed an order for a bitch from the next litter , which was born on 13 July 1963 . |
| 18 | One type had a timber roof which was supported on two rows of columns which divided the hall into a larger , central area and two narrower , side aisles . |
| 19 | The basic study instrument was a self administered questionnaire which was completed on three occasions by all pupils . |
| 20 | It decided to do this through the dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982 . |
| 21 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 22 | According to the respondents all the disputes were resolved by an oral agreement which was concluded on 6 May 1988 whereby the first two respondents agreed to pay $100,000 to the petitioner and $50,000 to Omnicorp and it was agreed by all parties that the legal proceedings and threatened litigation with regard to all matters in dispute would be abandoned . |
| 23 | It was called ‘ Pieces of Tape ’ , an anthology of broadcasts from the year 1932 which was transmitted on 13 January 1933 . |
| 24 | The Portuguese authorities had promised to hear Ferrari 's appeal against the fine next Wednesday , after which the FIA , the international automobile federation , was due to reach a decision on Ferrari 's appeal over Mansell 's ban from the Spanish Grand Prix which was staged on 1 October . |
| 25 | There are two years in which to implement the Directive , but implementing provisions relating to the entitlement to maternity leave for 14 weeks regardless of length of service are contained in the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill 1992 , which was published on 5 November . |
| 26 | I wonder whether Opposition Members have looked at the excellent background paper produced by the Library research division , entitled ’ The Regulation of Privatized Utility Companies ’ , which was published on 1 July and is available in the Library . |
| 27 | One such occasion caused Leslie Edwards to write a letter to The Times which was published on 18 September , 1937 . |
| 28 | Nearly 500 prominent Spanish monarchists sent him a collective letter of greeting and welcome , which was published on 13 February . |
| 29 | Altogether Eliot , who later offered his services to the Ministry of Information , which was founded on 5 September , two days after the outbreak of war , believed that a great deal could meanwhile be done by way of the spoken and written word . |
| 30 | The single company PEP , which was introduced on 1 January this year , has also been a success . |