Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of those that use alien plants have more than one food plant ( that is , are polyphagous ) ; the cabbage moth has been recorded on 31 different species of plants including 21 aliens . |
| 2 | has been indicted on twelve counts of racketeering , and offering bribes to elected officials to advance the interests of his clients , one of whom was G Tec . |
| 3 | a sheet which has been printed on one side only and then folded with two right angle folds to form a four page uncut section . |
| 4 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 5 | International : Dictator who sold out country to drug barons faces 120 years ' jail After a seven-month trial , Manuel Noriega has been convicted on eight charges . |
| 6 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 7 | Dr Jenkins , from Leicester University , has been working on two compounds found in English yew and has recently been joined by Dr Nick Lawrence of Manchester University . |
| 8 | The start-up company has been working on four lines of development , all using its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
| 9 | To date £6.7 million has been spent on two incomplete ferry terminals at Gills Bay and Burwick . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , life membership of the Irish Ladies Hockey Union has been conferred on two Ulster women , Professor Florence McKeown and Sheila Hennessy . |
| 11 | MONEY to improve Darlington 's council housing has been concentrated on one part of the town at the expense of other areas , Liberal Democrats claimed . |
| 12 | This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it . |
| 13 | The systemic induction of pin activity by wounding was correlated on 46 out of 49 occasions with a systemic electrical signal . |
| 14 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 15 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 16 | What we have done is to concentrate on two particular themes . |
| 17 | But any charm the scenery may have had was lost on one member of the crew : James McKeatling was taken sick in the far-from-healthy climate , and was left on shore . |
| 18 | Nor should too much hope be pinned on one month 's statistics . |
| 19 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 20 | Not only is Hardwick House the the environment for Kenneth Graham 's imagination , Toad himself may well have been based on one of the old inhabitants . |
| 21 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |
| 22 | He might have been stumped on 44 but that was the only chance he gave . |
| 23 | Fate has dealt harshly with W. She is now aged 16 , having been born on 31 March 1976 . |
| 24 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. J. is 16 months old , having been born on 22 January 1991 . |
| 25 | As the work was being reorganized to promote the war effort , I was to be given a National Service driving licence and other facilities — ; Conscription having been introduced on 27 April , this seemed the ideal transitional job to undertake pending the call-up . |
| 26 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 27 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 28 | How many craters greater than 1 km diameter are likely to have been produced on 10 6 square kilometres on the lunar surface between 2000 Ma and 1000 Ma ago ? |
| 29 | The Stasi headquarters in Berlin were reoccupied on Sept. 4 by New Forum supporters demanding that individuals be given access to their files ( which were said to have been held on 4,000,000 East Germans and 2,000,000 West Germans ) . |
| 30 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |