Example sentences of "[be] on [adj] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 As a matter of fact a fre fellow named lived in here and he was a traveller to er George he 's one of the best , biggest rim lockmakers in the town , anyway , they 're on this erm now and er he was going round for orders for regulars of his , for his firm and somebody , one day , asked him look here , we 've got a little awkward job here , you know anybody the can you do it ?
2 which was made up of local towns people , you know , and and er I mean you did n't have to be a a notary in the town to be on this er Co board th th You know you could be one of the riveters you were talking about earlier .
3 RSC , Ord 66 , r 1 requires all documents for use in the High Court to be on 150 A4 size paper of durable quality .
4 The Tipperary trainer is reputed to be on 20 per cent of all Melody 's earnings .
5 According to Gallup , the Tories are on 38½ per cent , Labour 38 and the Liberal Democrats 20 .
6 Consider this : every time a writer/ performer sells an album , their royalty earns them around 60p ( assuming they are on 10 per cent ) .
7 United are on 25 per cent of any fee the Potteries team get for striker Mark Stein .
8 The other three days are on this erm lateral thinking risk assessment type of erm
9 I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children
10 But it was a little lane and there were all these allotments that were on this erm this little lane , and I 'm not sure I think my father had two .
11 The whole , whatever 's on that erm .
12 Oh what 's on that er
13 Final word from the Tick Tack Index until the next election : As of Monday morning , Labour is on 69 per cent ( down one point ) and the Tories on 31 per cent .
14 According to Harris for ITN , Labour is on 40 per cent ( down one ) the Conservatives 38 ( up three ) , the Liberal Democrats 18 ( down one ) , and others four ( down one ) .
15 The SNP was on 27 per cent ( 31 per cent in the previous poll ) , the Conservatives 18 ( 21 ) , Liberal Democrats 11 ( 10 ) and the Greens 1 ( 1 ) .
16 And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm .
17 did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ?
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