Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should have been on TV after all . |
| 2 | You should have been on stage two minutes ago . |
| 3 | You should have been on duty . ’ |
| 4 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 5 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 6 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 7 | Nathan must have been on deck all night . |
| 8 | It was n't long before I got caught shoplifting again so I was back on remand at Low Newton — I think I must have been on remand there about eight times . |
| 9 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 10 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 11 | People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less . |
| 12 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 13 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 14 | Families eating candyfloss under strings of coloured lights , crowds of bikers guzzling frogburgers , country music wailing from loudspeakers ; we could have been on Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday night . |
| 15 | The Corporation may have been on cover for several years and when subsidence damage is discovered , it requires full underpinning . |
| 16 | The eyes of the world may have been on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they were pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 17 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 18 | Normally , the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light . |
| 19 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 20 | There had also been personal prejudice against the three men who would have been on trial . |
| 21 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 22 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |
| 23 | In three years times all of the new C P O's will have been on courses and probably most of them will have been on A L O courses . |
| 24 | In three years times all of the new C P O's will have been on courses and probably most of them will have been on A L O courses . |
| 25 | The first house that I can remember was on Road . |