Example sentences of "[adv] be on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 2 | The committee urged that the emphasis should henceforth be on the special needs for education of certain groups of children — those with learning difficulties — rather than on various categories of handicap . |
| 3 | I have just been on an inter-personal skills workshop so I knew what to do . |
| 4 | There are unlikely to be dramatic improvements in noise levels and air quality as a result of these speed reductions , simply because 80 per cent of the traffic now is on the main roads . |
| 5 | One interesting geological effect of the Vesuvius eruption nineteen hundred years ago was on the famous pillars of the so-called " Temple of Serapis " at Pozzuoli on the opposite side of the Bay of Naples ( plate 5.3 ) . |
| 6 | For instance , ‘ a building for lodging horses ’ is an adequate definition of stable ( or at least is on the right lines ) ; but while ‘ a stable-dwelling animal ’ might serve to identify horse , it is not an adequate definition . |