Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] are on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 2 | And despite the fact that Ministry are on the brink of a Metallica-scale take-over in the US , Barker hints that he and Jourgensen are now questioning how much further they actually want to push the band . |
| 3 | He notes that ‘ men are hardly to be brought to think that sweetness and whiteness are not really in manna ’ , but this does not lead him to question his declared view that sweetness and whiteness are on a par with the ‘ ideas of sickness and pain' , ideas which ‘ are not in the manna , but effects of its operations on us , and are nowhere when we feel them not ’ . |
| 4 | PETER HORBURY takes the telephone receiver and the operator tells him the police and ambulance are on their way . |
| 5 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 6 | Your personal astrological chart , from which Debbie works out your character , past and future are on software . |
| 7 | He declared that ‘ discipline , order , morality and civilisation are on a higher level out there than in China ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 8 | Politics and sport are on the menu . |
| 9 | Crazy golf and tennis are on offer , as is bowling . |
| 10 | The police agreed that her disappearance was odd even suspicious but oddness and suspicion are on every breath a policeman takes — and meanwhile their offices are stacked with files of unquestionably real and still unsolved crimes . |
| 11 | Here many different crafts such as pottery , candle-making , wood-turning , toymaking and patchwork are on display . |
| 12 | If economics are on your mind , there should be no choice . |
| 13 | If the image and object are on opposite sides of the lens , moving the object closer to the lens shifts the image further away and vice versa . |
| 14 | Peach leaves being unavailable in my strip of London back garden , I used instead a few drops of real almond essence , towards the end of the cooking , when the juice and sugar are on the boil . |
| 15 | Sandstone and sculpture are on next year 's agenda . |
| 16 | The phone number and address are on your bill . |
| 17 | Then contact your electricity company , and finally the Office of Electricity Regulation ( OFFER ) , whose phone number and address are on your bill . |
| 18 | Handing it to him , she told him , ‘ My name and address are on the front . |
| 19 | Its tableaux of suffering and benediction are on a scale that easily matches Faure 's score and its concluding lifts are exquisite — the women floating high above the men like angels breast-stroking through paradise . |
| 20 | When that happens , God and righteousness are on his side . ’ |
| 21 | Juggling , plate-spinning and uni-cycling are on offer at an evening class in circus skills . |
| 22 | It does piss you off admittedly when scum are on so much , and I 've a sneaking feeling that Leeds have still not been forgiven in some parts of the press for being close enough to sneak the title when scum fucked up ( due to Fuckerson 's crap team selection ) . |