Example sentences of "[conj] they [be] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er particularly if you look just at the ordinary wall fronts the front wall the stones are very much more heavily eroded there than they are on this this the aisle here . |
| 2 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 3 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 4 | and they 're on that side . |
| 5 | Student nurses , other than those on Project 2000 , with apprentices and YT trainees , will be able to claim council tax benefit if they are on low incomes . |
| 6 | There is no difference , either , between what we have under the community charge and under the rates in respect of identifying people who are entitled to help through social security benefit , if they are on low incomes . |
| 7 | This can be most effective if this device can be dedicated to the file , but is still useful in normal multi-programming ; there is certain to be constant arm movement if the file and its high-level indexes are stored on the same device , while this is less likely if they are on separate devices . |
| 8 | He found he could dowse the ‘ charge ’ in a stone , the wavelength being in the radio section of the electromagnetic spectrum , that this became fixed by electromagnetism , and that the germination of plants could be affected if they are on one of the ‘ charge lines ’ . |
| 9 | Our parliamentary group does not appear to be in touch with grassroots opinion — it 's as if they are on another planet . |
| 10 | We have just heard the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) dismiss the argument that people pay more income tax and VAT if they are on high incomes . |
| 11 | I suppose TV companies could potentially show both matches if they were on different nights , but if they do n't matter who 's gon na watch two nights of essentially meaningless football ? ( this of course is only true of the last couple of rounds of qualification ) . |
| 12 | Other issues were raised such as the practice of banning Chinese from western hotels in the major cities unless they were on official business or actually accompanying foreigners . |
| 13 | There are others he did n't buy and wants to unload , like Tony Cottee who cost £2.2m , but they 're on such big contracts other clubs ca n't afford their wages . |
| 14 | Yeah , they are now , but they 're on ten percent |
| 15 | This is speculative but they are on firmer ground when they point out that violent incidents were underreported both by referees in their correspondence with the FA and by the press . |
| 16 | But they were on this bonus system you know , they were you know on the bonus but they were n't quarry men . |
| 17 | And , if you do believe in the continuation of the spirit , you have the added comfort of knowing that there is no such thing as ‘ never ’ and that people do not stop loving one another just because they are on different planes . |
| 18 | Because they were on all play . |
| 19 | Iraq has accused American soldiers of stealing important antiquities while they were on Iraqi territory during the war , and the Iraqi representative at the United Nations raised this issue after the ceasefire of last April . |
| 20 | A battery of nine neuropsychological tests were administered , whilst they were on conventional neuroleptics , and again after 15 months on clozapine . |
| 21 | ‘ The collection 's called ‘ Owo ’ , Nigerian for ‘ person ’ — it looks good on both men and women , whether they 're on open Swiss ski-slopes or in a cramped British club . |
| 22 | But whether they came out knowing of the Welsh camp , and with some plan of attack , which the Lord Owen by his own stratagem forestalled , or whether they were on other business and would have passed by but for this lure , I tell you honestly , I do not know . |
| 23 | and the writing and reading , but I mean before they were on all the time |
| 24 | The autoset lever overrides the set levers when they are on 1 ( but not when they are on 0 ) . |
| 25 | It is fun to dig out a nice long briar stem from the hedgerow for this purpose , but how can you be sure about what you are getting or whether two identical buds will behave the same as each other when they are on different stock stems ? |
| 26 | The machines are very good quality , Schaller-style but presumably Gotoh , gold-plated — as they are on all O.C. Smith guitars — and dead smooth to use . |
| 27 | The win was particularly timely for Ford assembly line workers John Hobson , 52 , and Kenny Berwick , 49 , as they are on short-time . |
| 28 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 29 | But there is a natural barrier of around 40 per cent , which appears to be the maximum vote for any European party of the left , based as they are on earlier 20th-century political formations arising from industrial production . |
| 30 | Arsenal 's jump to the top of the pile — they were last there in May 1991 — is ominous indeed , particularly as they 're on one of their famous rolls . |