Example sentences of "[is] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's 9 December sale totalled £10.8 million with premium , 63% sold by lot , 73.8% by value , Christie 's on 11 December £14.9 million with premium , 67.4% by lot , 83% by value . |
| 2 | Of the oils , four are currently on loan to MoMA including ‘ L'Asie ’ from the collection of the Mollie Parnis Livingston , which made $10 million at Sotheby 's on 10 November ( bought by the Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth ) and ‘ Harmonie jaune ’ which achieved a new world record for a work by the artist at Christie 's on 11 November , selling for $13.2 million against an estimate of $5–7 million . |
| 3 | He 's on borrowed time . |
| 4 | Who 's on middle class ? |
| 5 | Recently bought by a dealer for £5,000 in a local auction , it sold at Christie 's on 1 April for £34,000 ( $51,000 ; est. £10,000–15,000 ) , bought by a private art consultant , underbid by Blairman |
| 6 | The Continental ceramics sales at Christie 's and Sotheby 's on 1 March and 2 March continued to demonstrate the basic soundness and stability of this field . |
| 7 | After an elegant supper given by the Racing and Breeding Fine Arts Fund at Christie 's on 1 June , forty ‘ Colourmasters ’ were auctioned , raising in total £128,000 in aid of more than thirty charities including Racing Welfare , the Equine Fertility Endowment Appeal , the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind , Crusaid and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 8 | Agenda Brugge is a useful free guide to what 's on each month . |
| 9 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 10 | Musician Carl 's on right track |
| 11 | He left his pictures to his nephew , Thomas Hankey of Bedford Square : these were sold at Christie 's on 7–8 June 1799 . |
| 12 | There 's on expanded mode and enhanced mode . |
| 13 | erm , there 's on certain parts of ah what they put has shown they they 've understood what was in that part of the diary like in the exercises relating this morning to or to learning like with the Roman numerals and the other thing they shown that they understood what was in that context , but then on erm when you get later on it 's just er |
| 14 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 15 | Those who fecklessly pay huge sums for grimy canvases would be wise to study the results of the Dr Carlo Croce collection at Christie 's on 14 January . |
| 16 | That 's on Central News South tomorrow night . |
| 17 | She 's on complete bed rest , antibiotics , plenty of fluids . |
| 18 | George Costakis owns the world 's most distinguished private collection of Russian avant-garde art , and 22 important works from it are being offered for sale at Sotheby 's on 4 April . |
| 19 | The sale of Modern British art at Sotheby 's on 4 November included a surprising number of notable works and attracted a large audience . |
| 20 | No 5029 Renown approaches Exeter Central station with the 09.15 Waterloo to Exeter St David 's on 17 August 1989 . |
| 21 | That 's not right , it 's on living assurance . |
| 22 | Lizzy was n't at Joanie 's on New Year 's Eve , she was at that bloody rave ! |
| 23 | Guess who 's on first call tomorrow ? |
| 24 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |
| 25 | So she 's on eighteen pound , they 'll owe say eighty pound a week rent . |
| 26 | ‘ Ginny , I 've made Guy MD of Chester 's on good advice … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What you seem to forget is that it 's on sixteen years since you left this house . |
| 28 | George de la Tour 's ‘ Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player ’ , bought by Agnew 's at Christie 's on 13 December for £1,870,000 , is to join the collection at the Prado . |
| 29 | At the Victorian picture sales at Sotheby 's on 12 November and Christie 's on 13 November , buyers tended to stay away from works which had been on the market in recent years . |
| 30 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |