Example sentences of "be on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This road we 're on looks to be the shorter way now . |
| 2 | I 've only been here a month meself , and I 'm on nights for the extra money . |
| 3 | In the next section , however , the emphasis will be on qualities of the object which language can not share . |
| 4 | Anne Pennick in an essay on the tunnels of Glastonbury claims that larger tunnels follow ley lines ( originally straight alignments of assorted ancient historic sites , now credited to be on lines of mystic energy ) , and that they reflect the ‘ mystery and sanctity attaching to places of paramount geomantic importance in the topographical interrelation of religious sites ’ . |
| 5 | Such approaches have always seen the complexity of design activity with its range of apparently contradictory impulses and antitheses ; is the emphasis to be on questions of form or of function or on solving technical or aesthetic desires and needs ? |
| 6 | On Wednesdays Karen will be at Suffolk College , Ipswich with a beginners ' class and the full day course , again on the ribber , is to be on Fridays at Thorpe High School , Clacton . |
| 7 | Since 16 July 1992 ( Royal Assent of the 1992 Finance ( No 2 ) Act ) , such enquiry time has included Customs making internal enquiries ; previously , however , the time had to be on enquiries with the trader , rather than on internal enquiries , following the High Court decision in L Rowland and Co ( Retail ) Ltd ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1992 , p 108 ) . |
| 8 | But the real issues had nothing to do with the balance of power , which merely dictated that Britain should be on terms of benevolent neutrality with whoever won in Spain . |
| 9 | The other sites included in the very brief survey are on roads in the south-east . |
| 10 | The latest official road safety figures released here show that not only are French roads still among the most murderous in Europe but that within France the highest number of dead and injured are on roads in and around Marseilles . |
| 11 | ‘ We are asking hospitals to mix up their specialities so that ENT ( ear , nose and throat ) patients are on wards with patients with other complaints , ’ said Ms Sandra Mead , a senior watchkeeper . |
| 12 | The only data currently available are on payments to employees whose employers were insolvent . |
| 13 | Departures from the UK are on Sundays with the normal itinerary followed by six nights in Alsopahok and one night in the Vienna Woods area . |
| 14 | Place the snakes on the game board , making sure that the head and tail of each snake are on squares of the same colour . |
| 15 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 16 | The Government 's emphasis has been on changes to the way the education system is run . |
| 17 | Where the new season 's races have taken place , all have been on strips of man-made snow set into dun-coloured grass . |
| 18 | Although this framework has been usefully applied to higher education ( see Wright 1988 ) , its main impact has been on studies of the school curriculum . |
| 19 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 21 | I have been on ones of 100,000 acres . |
| 22 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 23 | You mentioned Stanford Hall then and you 've been on courses at Stanford |
| 24 | Loretta , who was ignorant of the etiquette attached to these affairs , had been on tenterhooks throughout tea in case anyone should ask her to dance . |
| 25 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 26 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 27 | My big problem was that all my files , containing the text of my books , articles , notes and so on were on discs of the wrong size to run of any other computer — without expensive conversion . |
| 28 | Moreover , many domestic consumers were on tariffs in which extra kWhs purchased were cheaper than the initial units . |
| 29 | The report estimated that about 38,000 of the 60,000 caravans were on sites for which permission , usually conditional or temporary , had been given ; about 12,000 had ‘ existing use ’ rights ; and about 10,000 were on sites which appeared to contravene planning control . |
| 30 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |