Example sentences of "[adj] [be] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of full-time professionals playing for a major club like Sheffield United in 1934–5 only four out of twenty-one were on the maximum wage . |
| 2 | The , admittedly the French and the British were on the right side , they won the war , but France er was er battered in the war , lost an awful lot of people , it 's a common and although this country , although , you know , fighting in Britain , the er , British economy was also badly damaged . |
| 3 | But what does seem clear is on the one hand the absence of any straightforward link between sexual activity per se and social morality ; and on the other , the inability and sometimes unwillingness of the ecclesiastical authorities to enforce stricter single standards . |
| 4 | This is on the black market Russian . |
| 5 | And again , you see this is on the one hand , on the other hand there is some justification in both views . |
| 6 | Er another scripture here to suggest whether this , this is on the same sort of er apart from that 's it , chapter thirteen and Luke |
| 7 | The most common position for this is on the last lexical word ( e.g. noun , adjective , verb , adverb as distinct from the function words introduced in Chapter 12 , p. 102 ) of the tone-unit . |
| 8 | You can connect your spur cable into the circuit at any existing conveniently-sited socket , so long as this is on the main circuit and is not already supplying a spur ( see ADDING EXTRA SOCKETS ) . |
| 9 | What 's he asking to record a vote , the the this is on the main motion , could could I ask you to keep quiet just while we 're doing the voting please cos it 's very difficult to hear . |
| 10 | This was on the last day of an exhausting eleven-month shoot tracking down the healers , mystics and wise men of the islands . |
| 11 | Room 12 was on the first floor . |
| 12 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 13 | Yes the flow sorry , point thirteen and fourteen , thirteen is on the southern bypass , I thought Mr was referring to another flow which |
| 14 | The second was on the employed ( many of whom had either personal experience of unemployment or had close family or friends who were unemployed ) . |
| 15 | A decision by the Germans to leave their interest rates unchanged put the skids under prices in London and the FT-SE 100 was on the slippery slope . |
| 16 | Sixty-one was on the third floor . |
| 17 | These are on the fourth disc . |
| 18 | Seven of these were on the British side , where the contractors were fined 50,000 in March 1990 after the fifth death . |
| 19 | I felt absurdly that we three were on the same side fighting the rest of the world . |
| 20 | The total number of theses produced in UK universities between 1960 and 1983 was approximately 180,000[00] , of which 3632 were on the physical earth sciences — some 2% of the total . |
| 21 | The total number of theses produced in UK universities between 1960 and 1983 was approximately 180,000 , of which 3632 were on the physical earth sciences — some 2% of the total . |
| 22 | This is a stunning world of peace and tranquility , an assortment of panoramic spectacles , where every sight is awesome , and all are on the grandest of scales . |
| 23 | Many are on the far left , others on the rabble-rousing populist right . |
| 24 | Three thousand bottles are to be auctioned and , as you might expect , many are on the large side . |
| 25 | ) Because accounting reports are used to monitor the allocation of resources in the economy , they should all be on the same basis . |
| 26 | When a trio of dots are in GP by both size and interval , the group is most stable when the largest is on the shortest arms and the smallest is on the longer arms . |
| 27 | The emphasis in Chapters 4 and 5 was on the theoretical aspects of monetary control , whereas here we attempt to place the problem in the context of UK experience since 1945 . |
| 28 | Ltd were on the first floor of a substantial building , near Allhallows Church . |
| 29 | He was employed by King Henry III on diplomatic missions , was given an important command in the Welsh marches , and by 1257 was on the royal council . |
| 30 | Four were on the main street ; the fifth was on the western edge of the village . |