Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current of three million to grow or rights of access er to the and experience to date has suggested that , that has been on a voluntary necessarily popular on , on a . |
| 2 | But the SA Rugby Board has traditionally had the major slice of South Africa 's rugby cake , built as this has been on white wealth , sponsorship , patronage , assets , expertise , media coverage and the rest . |
| 3 | However , on the principle of ‘ look before you leap ’ , company car owners should first check whether they might be entitled to purchase their present car on favourable terms : over the past few years , the number of employers allowing this has been on the increase . |
| 4 | I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time . |
| 5 | Most of the research on this has been on conversational interaction of a rather restricted kind , such as between doctor and patient , teacher and pupil or between the various speakers in court cases . |
| 6 | This had been on the cards from the very beginning . |
| 7 | Speaking to Irish state radio from Baidoa , Concern spokesman Michael O'Reilly said : ‘ Unfortunately this had been on the cards for some time . |
| 8 | Let us suppose that your department is keen to try investigative work ; some have been on courses ; there is access to a few ideas from books and journals ; and the main concern is how people will cope personally and pedagogically in the classroom . |
| 9 | Aidan 's episcopal see was on the island of Lindisfarne near the Bernician royal stronghold of Bamburgh ( HE 111 , 5 , 6 ) . |
| 10 | a lot about it and sha n't be , frankly I 'm relieved I do n't actually know a lot but when the meeting to discuss what we 're supposed to do is on December tenth yo so I 'm a bit torn cos I in a way that 's what I ought to be doing even though the welfare business in a way that 's wh that 's what I ought to be doing cos it 's entirely . |
| 11 | I have been lucky to have been on plenty of tours and hardly missed a training session or match so , by the law of averages , I ca n't complain about that disappointing end to what had been a very enjoyable season . |
| 12 | In addition 10 seen at Litlington on 14 October 1974 seem most likely to have been on migration , apparently the only such record for Sussex . |
| 13 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 14 | So all of those people there or most of them are likely to have been on a list that the school have recommended . |
| 15 | Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq . |
| 16 | With the limited resources available at our disposal we have not been able to build too many expert systems and most of these have been on a small scale . |
| 17 | There have been many demonstration projects , but most of these have been on a very small scale . |
| 18 | These have been on the whole successful this year with only one cancellation the Quiz Night . |
| 19 | These have been on the whole successful this year with only one cancellation the Quiz Night . |
| 20 | Erm and we would point out that er since the nineteen sixties there have been something like two hundred new stations opened erm on the rail network , the vast majority of these have been on Regional Railways . |
| 21 | If you take the present notion of the galaxies and run it back in time , it would seem that they should all have been on top of each other at some moment between ten and twenty thousand million years ago . |
| 22 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 23 | The interviews were carried out some time after the abuse had been established , so that while all had been on the child abuse register only half were still on the register when interviewed . |
| 24 | How many have been on a on a training course before ? |
| 25 | Where the new season 's races have taken place , all have been on strips of man-made snow set into dun-coloured grass . |
| 26 | ‘ Think how long BBC2 and Channel 4 have been on the air and they still have barely 10 per cent of the British audience . |
| 27 | ‘ Which platform would that have been on ? ’ |
| 28 | A BRIDE could have love on a plate — the car number 1 DO is on offer at next month 's DVLA sale in Birmingham . |
| 29 | No. 9 has been on the parent line at Brecon operating Santa Specials , but all that has been seen out in Aberystwyth has been the diesel which has been out most weekdays on engineers ' trains . |
| 30 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |