Example sentences of "on [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 2 | The constant emphasis on its being the Western episteme suggests immediate problems for any assumption that it constitutes a totality . |
| 3 | Dear Gordon , Q. I would like to ask your advice on which are the best concentrates for my horse and in what quantity they should be given . |
| 4 | At that point , the mother came in carrying a large tray on which were the four suppers . |
| 5 | But readers were also given a piece of gummed paper to stick after the figure ten , written on which was the missing word ‘ million ’ . ) |
| 6 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 7 | Pensioners were allowed to exchange notes at banks up to the value of their monthly pension or a maximum Rbs200 ( depending on which was the larger sum ) . |
| 8 | Whatever the methods of distribution and sale were , the evidence on who were the intended recipients of printed antislavery arguments suggests that further distinctions as to types of material and their immediate purposes are necessary . |
| 9 | These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both . |
| 10 | Another kind of plate with more than one animal or bird on it is the ecological one . |
| 11 | The record on it is the National Anthem . |
| 12 | I mean come on it 's the same ball game . |
| 13 | If it was flat on it was the same because he 's got to go right through to the sline before he could get anything you see ? |
| 14 | Standing on it were the leading American money-winner , Bob Stein , and the film actor Buck Finnegan , famous for his tough-guy roles . |
| 15 | The problem hinges upon fundamental areas such as price — how much British Gas should pay its UK suppliers — and also on what is the real nature of the problem . |
| 16 | However , this will be done with a very broad sweep to permit the focus in later chapters to concentrate on what is the essential and most interesting feature of routine policing in Northern Ireland : namely , how societal divisions affect and constrain it . |
| 17 | We fully recognise that individual parents will have their own views on what is the best way of educating their child . |
| 18 | In both areas the answer depends on what is the best form of agriculture , and especially of large-scale agriculture , under capitalist conditions . |
| 19 | I mean people do n't always agree on what evidence means ; they do n't always agree on what is the best thing to do , erm and I 've developed the idea that it 's possible to do an evaluation that I like to call divergent in the sense that there might be several different things that one might do as a result of it . |
| 20 | So in migrating to architecture we 're very much focused on what are the real world problems and the real challenges that we need to face to deliver effective and workable solutions . |
| 21 | Supplies of brass almost certainly came from the Bristol Brass Company and , as Fromebridge is situated on what was the main turnpike road to Bristol , this makes sense . |
| 22 | These changes have all been implemented , and have resulted in a reduction of housing costs on what was the projected level by £450 million in 1988 — 9 . |
| 23 | 4.1 The period of the licences shall begin on the date of this Agreement and end on whichever is the first to occur of the following : |
| 24 | 8.3 To make payments following disclaimer If this Lease shall be disclaimed and for any reason the Landlord does not require the Guarantor to accept a new Lease of the Premises in accordance with clause 8.2 the Guarantor shall pay to the Landlord on demand an amount equal to [ the difference between any money received by the Landlord for the use or occupation of the Premises and ] the rents [ in both cases ] for the period commencing with the date of such Disclaimer and ending on whichever is the earlier of the following dates : |