Example sentences of "[noun pl] be on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 2 | But while all eyes are on the hot-spots of Eastern Europe the real action is taking place in clubland . |
| 3 | The models are on the books of Alison Campbell Associates and Style Academy , both Belfast-based agencies . |
| 4 | The Kuwait the Kuwait cities are designed in such a way that the military installations and erm are outside the country , so from the eyewitnesses that we receive that all the bombings are on the outskirts of the city , no damage to Kuwait City or to the civilians inside Kuwait . |
| 5 | But it is by no means certain what the law is when the goods are on the premises of one who was not responsible for bringing them there and who has committed no tort with respect to them . |
| 6 | The small retailer , such as the ‘ corner shop ’ , tends to rely on doing a regular stock-check : this means looking at what goods are on the shelves in the shop and the stockroom , and making a note of any items that are ‘ getting low ’ . |
| 7 | Boxes at Wimbledon , golfing weekends and ski holidays at Les Arcs are on the boundaries of business entertainment and business corruption . |
| 8 | ANIMAL rights campaigners were on the streets of Darlington on Saturday to publicise a debate in Europe next week on cosmetic testing . |
| 9 | As Bowen admitted , it had been ‘ like the Alamo ’ for Norwich and bastions was on the lips of every Millwall supporter as they headed home complaining of an iniquitous defeat , their moans contrasting the broadcasted cries of consummation . |
| 10 | Some of the earliest names are on the Feet of Fines Rolls or documents relating to agreements on the rent or exchange of land . |
| 11 | Some of these synapses are on the shafts of the dendrites , others are attached to the tiny spines which stud the dendritic surface and which can be seen in Figure 10.6 . |
| 12 | Twelve of the boreholes were on the areas of the Coventry , Grantham , Shaftesbury and Witney map sheets ; the remaining eight were in the Bedford area , in connection with the Fuller 's Earth project . |
| 13 | To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class . |
| 14 | Up on Albert Hill in all likelihood its operations were on the banks of the eponymous river where the Cleveland Industrial Estate is now it had a massive and profitable operation covering 22 acres , employing 1,000 men and boys and working 90 furnaces . |
| 15 | A local variant of these wide lanes and roads is on the fenlands of eastern England . |
| 16 | There is a dairy farm and two farmers who keep pigs quite close to the centre of the village , but the larger farms with their pigs and sheep and production of cereal crops are on the outskirts of the village . |
| 17 | Many rehousing schemes were on the peripheries of the conurbations , often in adjacent local authorities , some still designated as rural districts . |
| 18 | He never knew his father , his uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity and his drunken step-father sold second-hand cars . |