Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] be on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 2 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 3 | No no I 've been on one and they do do it properly . |
| 4 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 5 | I 've been on one of those |
| 6 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 7 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family . |
| 9 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 10 | I 've been on this big rant lately of how transition is natural , continental drift , the seasons , the weather 's different every day , people grow older and change … |
| 11 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 12 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 13 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 14 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 15 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 16 | " I 've been on some of their demos . " |
| 17 | Having said that , I 've been on some of the deliveries that you guys have to do , and some of the places where you have to go into , and er I fully appreciate it 's not easy . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 19 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 20 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 21 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 22 | You hate being on social benefits . |
| 23 | she get 's on alright . |
| 24 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 25 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 26 | It is sad when sisters and brothers who have been on good terms quarrel about who gets what , whether the reasons for wanting a particular item are commercial or sentimental . |
| 27 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 28 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
| 30 | Everything you need is on one level . |