Example sentences of "[that] [pron] are on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be one of the major frustrations of being a veterinary surgeon that you can never convince your patients that you are on their side and are working tirelessly to save them and help them back to full health . |
| 2 | It hardly matters what you are angry about , so long as you convey clearly the message that you are on the point of a serious psychotic meltdown and anyone getting in your way is liable to be no more than a bag of pimply skin and bone shards lying in a pool of blood within seconds . |
| 3 | But , however confident you are after being wooed and won by an overseas recruiter , you may feel isolated and vulnerable once you have signed a contract and find that you are on your own . |
| 4 | The sufferer must know that he or she has your full attention and that you are on his or her " side " . |
| 5 | When the needle has centred , it indicates that you are on the centre line of the track set on the OBS scale . |
| 6 | Austin Currie condemned the police action in blocking their route , and said that NICRA would be organising more parades , which would not stop at Thomas Street : ‘ O'Neill and those Orange bigots behind him [ will ] realise once and for all that we are on our way forward . |
| 7 | It is with effectiveness that we are on much more fertile ground , for effectiveness is concerned with the relationship between output and aims and objectives . |
| 8 | I think that we are on the verge of a major reorientation in language description — one that will create problems for anyone who thinks that the facts are known . |
| 9 | The LTA has increased its training staff and with the arrival of Tony Pickard and others it does appear that we are on the right road to success or at least start travelling in the right direction . |
| 10 | The murderer now knows that we are on his trail . |
| 11 | I can help the hon. Gentleman by saying that we believe that we are on schedule for the introduction of the council tax in April 1993 . |
| 12 | Tonight I am pleased to report that we are on course . |
| 13 | For his part , Maurice Strong declared that the summit had reached " agreement without sufficient commitment " , and concluded : " I believe that we are on the road to tragedy . " |
| 14 | They were speaking in favour of it , now here he comes along er and er we we 're I I find myself , regrettable I think because er er his er a minister very well informed in these areas with er who made in those committees a very powerful and effective contribution , now we find ourselves on the er opposite side but I have to say now that we are on opposite side that what is introducing today er is really er too little er and far too er too too late . |
| 15 | So I think you can now see that we are on the road to recovery , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Everything that had emerged from the reaction to the two consultation papers it had produced ‘ confirms our view that we are on the right track . |
| 17 | The Society is always looking for new ways to improve its service to members and your encouraging response to the introduction last January , of a direct , one-category membership structure indicates that we are on the right lines . |
| 18 | We believe that there are on a number of priorities er and this one does not seem quite as high er on our list as it does er on the labour . |
| 19 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 20 | A great proportion of our farmers , large and small , know in their hearts that they are on the wrong road , but have neither the wisdom nor the courage to strike out on radically new lines . |
| 21 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 22 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 23 | Work done by the Senegalese group has convinced Papert that they are on the right track . |
| 24 | MANCHESTER UNITED served notice on their rivals that they are on course for the Championship with a magnificent 5-0 slaughter of Coventry at Old Trafford yesterday . |
| 25 | Number One , would you tell McKenzie to warn the four seamen who were with us tonight that they are on no account to mention the fact that we were on the Delos . |
| 26 | The fighting in Mostar and central Bosnia has forced the UN Security Council to condemn the Bosnian Croats , despite their claims that they are on the defensive . |
| 27 | What the elder thus proclaims is that he has a ‘ hotline ’ to the ancestors , that they are on his side and , in effect , do his bidding . |
| 28 | Well , life is not like that and you have got to individually contact every single one of the countries and do everything you fairly and properly can to make sure that they are on your side , and this is what I did . ’ |
| 29 | Children should never realize that they are on a curb or under its direction . |
| 30 | Try to approach each patient as an individual , as it is possible for patients , especially those having " minor " surgery , to feel that they are on a " production line " . |