Example sentences of "is [verb] on one [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 2 | From Isafjördur the best way to explore Iceland 's north-west is to jump on one of Ernir Air 's mail planes . |
| 3 | Greg is lying on one of the Palace 's luxuriant couches , gesticulating wildly and fixing me with a stare that is part ultimate artistic earnestness and part repressed pathological violence . |
| 4 | This particular perspective is based on one of the most influential studies in the comparative labour field in the last two decades , Kerr et al . , |
| 5 | I did wonder whether we ought to call a , a , a , sort of emergency meeting of Harlow Health Action , but I was away myself until last few days , so it 's difficult to do that , so what we 've are , I 've agreed with Dave , the secretary , we 've produced a leaflet , which is based on one of the Federations leaflet , it gives the reason to be against opting out . |
| 6 | The Kyrie-Christe is based on one of the set of conventional tenors employed at this period in English votive Masses of the Virgin , for instance those of Nicolas Ludford ( c. 1485–c. 1557 ) , which are mysteriously called ‘ squares ’ . |
| 7 | The trick is to stumble on one of these Aladdin 's caves of fishing delight — and wreak havoc . |
| 8 | In the seventeenth century , John Aubrey , Wiltshire 's first archaeologist , lived in the manor farm , and his name is inscribed on one of the church bells whose ringing he loved so . |