Example sentences of "[verb] be on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asprey , 5p higher at 290p , is flush with cash and has been on an acquisitions spree in the last 15 months . |
| 2 | Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still … |
| 3 | One of the reasons for the improvement in pedestrian safety on the Continent over the past decade , is that the focus of traffic calming work has been on the areas where most people live , that is on existing , not new , residential areas . |
| 4 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 5 | Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging . |
| 6 | Certainly some , like British Telecommunications , gas , electricity and water , produced spectacular financial results , but the lasting impact has been on the businesses themselves . |
| 7 | It is therefore timely to consider what the impact of this mandatory scheme for school self-evaluation has been on the teachers , recalling what the stated intentions were at the outset : |
| 8 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 9 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |
| 10 | The merger has been on the cards for some time and of course makes perfect sense . |
| 11 | Our marriage has been on the cards from day one , and there 's not a damned thing either of us can do about it . ’ |
| 12 | Also , much of the money for the campaign has come from the community itself , and where outside groups have provided assistance , either financially or otherwise , it has been on the terms of the YCCC rather than anyone else . |
| 13 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 14 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 15 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
| 16 | ‘ The business I 've just bought is on the rocks , and you tell me that 's lucky ? ’ |
| 17 | A LOT OF the enquiries that we get are on the lines of ‘ will a Series III such and such from a LWB fit my SWB Series II ? ’ |
| 18 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 19 | You 'd have been on the streets , girl , that 's where you 'd 'ave been . ’ |
| 20 | Science and education may have been on the minds of the panel , but the youngsters preferred to range over topics such as nuclear disarmament and the ethics of energy . |
| 21 | Such a move would have greatly simplified the supplementary benefit system , as fewer people eligible for benefit would have been on the books of local social security offices . |
| 22 | It would n't have been on the books if I ever seen blatant sectarianism at its worst it 's in that bloody motion . |
| 23 | The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved . |
| 24 | The dental surgery where his Mum worked was on the outskirts of Thirkett . |
| 25 | The notion of marginality carries with it the sense of dualism , since it implies being on the boundaries of urban and rural society , but not integrated into either . |
| 26 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 27 | The average age of single deck vehicles was 10.3 years , while the county 's 88 more recently introduced mini-buses had been on the roads an average of 5.3 years . |
| 28 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 29 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 30 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |