Example sentences of "[be] on [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following that erm scoreline , United stay in fourteenth place , they now have forty two points from thirty five games , just one above them is Charlton , they 're on forty two points . |
| 2 | No you ca n't do that , they ought to be on two separate days because people not |
| 3 | What is absolutely vital is that while you are on one particular diet , you follow the rules that apply to that diet , and those rules only . |
| 4 | She and the kids are on two council-house waiting lists , and each council has found out about the other , so she is suspended by both of them and now has to fend for herself . |
| 5 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 6 | The dead , 13 of them students , were on three different floors of the building . |
| 7 | The dead , 13 of them students , were on three different floors of the building . |
| 8 | Mr Matthiesen informs me that he relayed this message to Sotheby 's on three separate occasions prior to the sale , but no notice was displayed . |
| 9 | When prospective bidders gather at Sotheby 's on three consecutive days starting 20 May for the collection of Old Master paintings , silver and French furniture formed by Swiss-based art collector Jaime Ortiz-Patiño , which is estimated by the auction house at more than $22 million , they will witness another chapter of an extravagant story unfold . |
| 10 | The focus is on two particular topics , first , the Government/BSA Joint Advisory Committee which tried to regulate mortgage lending and house prices in the 1970s and , second , the new legislation itself . |
| 11 | Since taking power in a military coup in 1954 Gen. Alfredo Stroessner was on eight consecutive occasions declared the winner of presidential elections as the candidate of the Colorado Party , most recently on Feb. 14 , 1988 [ see p. 35887 ] . |
| 12 | If the man was on two thousand trains I 'd call it murder . " |
| 13 | She had been out of prison for four years but was on two suspended sentences for shoplifting , and had recently been arrested for shoplifting again . |
| 14 | It was on one such time early last February , two months ago , when , having driven to Cheltenham to do an interview , she detoured to call in . |