Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These computer programs have been written in BASIC by postgraduate students at the Department of Information Studies , and they are mounted on a Prime 400 minicomputer . |
| 2 | They are made on a narrower last and in the interest of weight reduction , sacrifice all the midsole cushioning and stability features of a conventional trainer . |
| 3 | They are borne on a long , stout , fleshy leaf-stalk . |
| 4 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 5 | When speed sailors sail at high speeds ( 39 knots is the current record ) they have their sails in a close hauled position although they are sailing on a broad reach . |
| 6 | It does say that they are collected on a monthly basis , so you could say that okay they are . |
| 7 | Both will prevent you from burning and tanning , provided they are reapplied on a regular basis . |
| 8 | They are arranged on a slender , branching stem . |
| 9 | Failing this , a fit elderly neighbour may be willing to come , either voluntarily or for a small payment , which would be useful to them if they are living on a small pension . |
| 10 | They are based on a regular series of expert conferences , each on a major theme of policy . |
| 11 | North Shields and Cramlington could be described in terms of localities , not least because to some extent they are based on a discrete organization for the sustaining of labour ( see the discussion of Urry 's approach in Dickens et al . , |
| 12 | They are based on a new version 3.0 of its Open Desktop operating system bundle and Santa Cruz Unix system . |
| 13 | They are based on a new version 3.0 of its Open Desktop operating system bundle and SCO Unix system . |
| 14 | Sometimes they are organized on a tribal basis , sometimes they embrace people from a number of different tribes . |
| 15 | They are situated on a slight south-east incline amidst surrounding flat lands . |
| 16 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 17 | In the absence of any alternative network of support provided by the politics they participated in as employed men , the labour movement , they are thrown on a charitable sector dominated by a punitive and puritanical morality . |
| 18 | 1956 : As ‘ Talking Book ’ 16 rpm albums are released in Germany , UK Decca report that they are working on a single-groove stereo disc , as visualised by a certain Alan Blumlein way back in 1931 . |
| 19 | If we do our work well walkers wo n't realise that they are walking on a reconstructed path . |
| 20 | As we shall see later , a number of school and teacher self-evaluation schemes are prescriptive in that they are premised on a particular view of the competent professional ( and/or institution ) . |
| 21 | Finvest 's men have been making the bidding against RAI harder and harder by the season and now they are fighting on a match-by-match basis . |
| 22 | On the public platform they forget the things they 're achieving on a local level while working with us . |
| 23 | They 're working on a new show for the festive season , but it 's not the traditional pantomime . |
| 24 | They 're embarked on a ten year project to clean restore and preserve the Fairford windows . |
| 25 | As such , they were based on a loose holding-company structure which had not entailed thoroughgoing internal reorganisation . |
| 26 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 27 | There can be little doubt that Hitler 's conquests were ideologically bankrupt , but they were built on a profound understanding and wilful exploitation of German fears and ambitions . |
| 28 | Even at the height of its propagandist messages , the Staufen chancery found it difficult to counteract papal arguments , for they were conducted on a supernal plane . |
| 29 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 30 | They were executed on a small island in the river . |