Example sentences of "on [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another kind of plate with more than one animal or bird on it is the ecological one . |
| 4 | The record on it is the National Anthem . |
| 5 | I mean come on it 's the same ball game . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Standing on it were the leading American money-winner , Bob Stein , and the film actor Buck Finnegan , famous for his tough-guy roles . |