Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Falklands is now on the agenda ’ , said one . |
| 2 | The Scottish defender is still on a high after hitting the extra time winner which earned his side a Wilkinson Sword League Cup final spot against Bangor on April 20 . |
| 3 | The concentration is less on the covering of a specific range of subject matter than on the acquisition of essential skills and increased insight into " modes of understanding " , of which History , Sociology , Biology and other subject fields are examples . |
| 4 | But despite those powers , fraud is still on the increase . |
| 5 | Certainly the intention is there on the part of the professionals . |
| 6 | The driver knows his car is still on the road , |
| 7 | ‘ This type of crime is again on the increase . |
| 8 | It is also very clear why you need extension rails , since the main carriage is already on the right and you need to leave space for the lace carriage to join it . |
| 9 | But I 've noticed that whenever I 'm sideways on the Honda , Schwantz is sideways on the Suzuki . ’ |
| 10 | Rocky is still on the Leeds books . |
| 11 | In public the Bush administration is wholeheartedly on the side of the mujaheddin , as was President Reagan . |
| 12 | MC Hammer is obviously on the money when he claims that Vanilla Ice stole his act . |
| 13 | His blood is still on the pavement . |
| 14 | Then Susan , 32 , who dangled from ropes wearing gown and boots , joked : ‘ They say our marriage is already on the rocks . ’ |
| 15 | Where a chattel is unlawfully on the plaintiff 's land and has caused actual damage , the plaintiff may retain the chattel until the damage has been paid for . |
| 16 | The Holiday Village is right on the beach , and next to the beach café ( free of music ) where you can have a delightful breakfast . |
| 17 | Seasonal work is also on the decline . |
| 18 | Here we have no historical grounds for dating , but the work is clearly on the border of archaic and classical . |
| 19 | Work is underway on a suite of centrally-developed Higher National Units for the building sector . |
| 20 | However , despite a general decrease , burning in some specific areas is still on the increase . |
| 21 | Maggie May is still on the phone , |
| 22 | that publication is still on the go , because if it is gon na carry on , on the go , we can maybe get into the |
| 23 | The Week 's Foundation was in the process of developing a second museum site in the Orlando area — this plan is still on the drawing boards . |
| 24 | To take the problem first : it is caused by the fact that there are literary modes beneath romance and beneath epic or tragedy , i.e. ‘ low mimesis ’ -this being the mode of most novels , in which the hero is much on a level with us — and lower still ‘ irony ’ , where heroes turn into anti-heroes like Sancho Panza or Good Soldier Schweik or Leopold Bloom . |
| 25 | The point is , however , that whether he 's actually in favour of the levy or not , he ca n't accept the Prime Ministership while the issue is still on the agenda . |
| 26 | The effects of Perestroika , ( or is it Glasnost ) means that trade with Russia is generally on the increase . |
| 27 | The Plain English Campaign is again on the lookout for the incomprehensible , and consumer contracts are the latest to come under fire . |
| 28 | Now Kiawah Island in South Carolina is firmly on the golfing map following September 's Ryder Cup match when the Americans snatched back the pot in that agonisingly close finish . |
| 29 | Question is as on the order paper , Mr Graham Allett . |
| 30 | It can be argued that this confinement to land-use issues was the basic problem with structure planning and goes far to explain why the exercise has in practice proved so limited in its impact , but in this chapter the focus is precisely on the politics of land use , and structure plan intentions are of considerable importance . |