Example sentences of "[adj] [be] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are on split levels , all are comfortable , full of atmosphere , and boasting an abundance of beautiful furniture and rafted ceilings . |
| 2 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 3 | Some were on new bicycles , |
| 4 | The most important of these are on huge pots , designed not for use but to stand on graves . |
| 5 | The only major gaps in an otherwise even pattern of settlements are the present villages , and it is likely that many if not most of these are on earlier sites . |
| 6 | We travelled by train , CA to Manchester Piccadilly , and then on to York , on 158 's on both journeys . |
| 7 | Reference lists , figure legends and tables should all be on separate sheets , all of which should be double-spaced and numbered . |
| 8 | In November 1979 , there were just over 23,000 students taking agriculture courses leading to recognized qualifications in over forty further education establishments in England and Wales ; of these students almost 1,750 were on advanced courses , mainly full-time , and just over 21,300 on non-advanced courses , mainly part-time . |
| 9 | The raids on June 11 were on tactical targets in support of the invasion . |
| 10 | The provision of art and design education has grown relatively slowly in the post-war period so that in November 1979 , for example , there were only 34,707 students taking courses leading to recognized qualifications in art and design of whom 19,988 were on non-advanced courses , and 14,719 on advanced courses ; these represented just over two per cent of all students in further education studying for recognized qualifications . |
| 11 | In uniform and in plain clothes , roughly 50 were on different shifts asking each shopper for more information . |
| 12 | In 1980–1 , there were 6,148 students undertaking CNAA courses of whom 4,216 were on degree-linked courses and 1,932 on terminal courses . |
| 13 | In 1984 there were ( in England ) 9,929 gypsy caravans of which 6,048 were on authorised sites . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And er one of the ways you can use is er National Savings Income Bonds , er which are er okay , but they 're , the trouble is they 're at a variable rate , so at the moment they 're paying seven percent , so that 's on National Savings Income Bonds , so that that person would get seven hundred a year at the moment gross , and of course er you do n't need to t to fill in an R eighty five for that type of investment because it 's not a bank or building society account . |
| 16 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 17 | This was not to say that organized and structured prayers for the dead had ceased , for the Roman Rite included plenary intercessions for the living and the dead at every mass ; the annual mass for the departed was on All Souls ' Day , a standard event in the Church 's calendar , set apart for the benefit of souls in purgatory . |
| 18 | Most are on tenured contracts — which ought to protect employment until retirement . |