Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] be on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estranged wife and two children lived nearby , they 're said to be on holiday at the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're bound to be on edge , ’ he said , speaking into her hair . |
| 3 | Apparently what the erm busmen do is they have to make sure that they get to where they 're meant to be on time otherwise they get their pay docked but they like to stop off and see their friends on the way , and stop and have cups of tea |
| 4 | holidays when they 're gon na be on holiday , so I thought well that 'll be |
| 5 | Bring your cheque books , credit cards etc. and take advantage of the various deals that are bound to be on offer . |
| 6 | But the health watchdogs have countered that one person can not be expected to be on call all the time , and that person might also not be available . |
| 7 | And then I 'm going to 's on Monday , they 're going to photograph our Bridal box and they 're going to get a photograph with printed on of our bridal box as well . |
| 8 | I 'm going to be on camera . |
| 9 | Even if a large cash shortage in the money market is anticipated for the following week , as is usually so , Treasury bills will still be announced to be on offer for that week in order to ensure the preservation of a market in the bills . |
| 10 | And I 'm meant to be on holiday . |
| 11 | Police in Herefordshire were last night trying to trace Theresa 's relatives , who are believed to be on holiday . |
| 12 | I said , ‘ This is very good , but the performance you are talking of is on film . |
| 13 | It is intended to be on holiday season tours for at least three years . |
| 14 | If the board is intended to be on view , it should be laid smooth side up , then finished with a paint or varnish coating . |
| 15 | And then there 's the commercial challenge from Classic FM , which is expected to be on air in the autumn . |
| 16 | When designing your steps and choosing materials , do n't forget that some paving materials have a ‘ face ’ — a special textured or shaped finish , which is designed to be on show . |
| 17 | The hottest programme now is said to be on missiles that would destroy their targets within the atmosphere but without using a nuclear warhead . |
| 18 | A chamber-pot is said to be on offer with Mozart on the outside and Salieri inside ; and in the bookshops , serious biographical and analytical works are well hidden under a catch-crop of sugary Mozart nostalgia . |
| 19 | Mr Lenarduzzi endorses her view : ‘ If our concentration is going to be on testing , then that would not be welcome . |
| 20 | I know for a fact that people have actually got the wind that this pub is going to be on sale , on sale |
| 21 | Erm Dr Julia is going to be on sabbatical leave next term and would therefore like to give her lectures on Mill and utilitarianism erm this term so next week you will have Julia on Rousseau and immediately after that she 'll give her lectures on utilitarianism and Mill and I will then come after that and deal with socialism and Marx and all that really sexy stuff . |
| 22 | Once the director took Dustin aside and said , ‘ This is the only day we 're ever going to shoot this scene and , no matter how exhausted or lousy you feel , I want you to remember that what you give me is going to be on celluloid for people to see for ever and ever . |
| 23 | It 's going to be on board a small boat called The Sandhopper . |
| 24 | we asked for space , and they said oh mid April , and that actually is the next schedule step down action and that 's going to be on Europe and that 'll run from April till June , erm but from now till April if anybody would like to write the country which is Chile and this is because they 're , they suppose that they have extend the death penalty in Chile to include the murder of an off duty police witnesses , at the moment it 's only erm , the death penalty only exists for on duty police officers |
| 25 | ‘ It 's going to be on TV tonight . ’ |
| 26 | An acre of grassland and 100 railway sleepers caught fire but now have been put out , however the rest of the building is understood to be on fire . |
| 27 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 28 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 29 | But Victoria is wondering why I always come with you , when I was employed to be on duty here . ’ |