Example sentences of "be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am asked if I can be on standby if transport is needed ? |
| 2 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 3 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 4 | Everyone on the audition panel is prepared to be on your side and supportive . |
| 5 | I wan na be on this course findin' out . |
| 6 | The emphasis will be on developing an actor 's mental and physical concentration , and giving him/her sufficient craftsmanship to sustain a performance . |
| 7 | Once you have left drama school your attention will be on the immediate problems of survival and making progress with your work . |
| 8 | You do see this much more in foreign companies and I think if we in Britain could match the physical and the vocal more we would really be on top with our training resources . |
| 9 | Boys and girls should not be on the road after dark . |
| 10 | The new emphasis was to be on dining rather than drinking , and the design was as sensitive as it could have been . |
| 11 | POINT of sale terminals are now available for the Maxial advanced hotel system from General Automation ( GA ) , and will be on show at HOTECH '91 in November ( see page 59 ) . |
| 12 | He had known his mother would be on stage and her dresser Jessie in the wings waiting to help her with her quick change , and Bunty alone ; but he had not bargained for her not being dressed . |
| 13 | ‘ OK , we 'll make it half-eight just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 14 | And that same me , who twenty-four hours earlier had decided she could never go back to Harwich , would be on her way there tomorrow . |
| 15 | However , to be on the safe side , it is better to take cuttings in August to overwinter under glass . |
| 16 | The pilot 's left hand should be on the airbrake lever during any climb in cloud , ready to pull and open the airbrakes if the speed increases by more than 15 knots or so above normal . |
| 17 | In most cases when it really matters , the glider will already be on the final approach with full airbrake when it becomes apparent that an overshoot is likely . |
| 18 | In a field landing , or whenever you are trying for a spot landing ( which , of course , should be on every landing ) , the moment you find that you are having to keep full airbrake on continuously , you should start to side-slip and use up the excess height . |
| 19 | The Social Services department has a variety of equipment which can be on free loan to you if you are assessed to need it . |
| 20 | The emphasis of this ‘ directed ’ ( or controlled ? ) research , it was announced , ‘ is to be on pragmatic , problem-solving enquiries ’ ( i.e. policy-orientated research ) , which , it was explained , ‘ would be of cost-effective advantage to the force ’ . |
| 21 | The internal phone system springs into life and the moves are analysed or colleagues contacted to speculate on who has ‘ blotted his copy book ’ , or who seems to be on his way up the hierarchical tree in the mad scramble for position and preference . |
| 22 | You should n't be on your own . ’ |
| 23 | You can use a side kick still , but if the attack is really effective the opponent will be on top of you before you can launch it . |
| 24 | The mortar is set before the frosts , and the roof will be on well before the snow . ’ |
| 25 | No planks for the flooring yet , and if it is raining we can not be on the roof . |
| 26 | If they had said this about the Paris workmen , Louis would still be on the throne … |
| 27 | Now I had to be on my guard against AIDS and the Devil . |
| 28 | She feels imperialized , that everything familiar to her is being disturbed , the peace is being disturbed , and that our ways of telling ( form ) and what we have to tell ( content ) are simply not something that should be on an agenda of any kind . |
| 29 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 30 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |