Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] to be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Offline is being conducted because a disk is nearly full , therefore , the work directory may need to be on a different disk , where more space is available . |
| 2 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 3 | … until subject matter theories with different epistemological characteristics have been formulated , the focus of our spatial planning must continue to be on supermarkets , roads and airports , and not on the needs and desires of those individual human beings that the facilities allegedly are constructed to serve . |
| 4 | You 'll need to be on the alert for any unusual eventuality , as your behaviour during this arduous time will govern future happenings . |
| 5 | I want to capture as many of the cell members as possible , so we 'll need to be on our toes . ’ |
| 6 | Nor can he always rely on the help of those who in any other industry or service you might expect to be on his side . |
| 7 | Clark 's argument might appear to be on firmer ground had he restricted the human comparison to total imbeciles ( anencephalics and the like ) where the complete lack of linguistic ability , and even of its behavioural prototypes in many cases , would prevent any appeal to exclusively human propensities . |
| 8 | ‘ You and I and Henry will be with the Minister at the Select Committee all afternoon , and we 'll have to be on call to brief all morning . |
| 9 | We 'll have to be on our mettle from the start . ’ |
| 10 | Time 's going on ; you 'll have to be on your way again . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd prefer to be on my own patch to handle this one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ Pink said , ‘ I 'd prefer to be on a building site than be a government scientist in this day and age . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd like to be on the lovely buses . |
| 14 | She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room . |
| 15 | ‘ If you do n't mind , I 'd like to be on my way pretty soon . |
| 16 | You 'd have to be on the ground . |
| 17 | And if you were on night duty you 'd get two nights off , but when you came back you 'd , you 'd , you 'd have to be on duty that night so you 'd have to go to bed that day . |
| 18 | Some time in the early hours of Saturday morning Archie staggered to his feet and said that he 'd have to be on his way . |
| 19 | You 'd have to be on a race tract or a rally circuit to push these to the limit , but on normal roads in normal cars motoring can be more dangerous . |
| 20 | Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August . |
| 21 | The fastenings for the steel bits would need to be on the gun deck , and it was on the gun deck they had some of the electronic equipment they did not want the Chilean officers to see . |
| 22 | The the problem would appear to be on people like D K who are the main complainers , that unless it 's dead square , they 're complaining about it . |
| 23 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 24 | Above us , they indulge in fits of nostalgia , remembering the heady days of the Poll Tax riots , and in artificially enlarging the number present with all those who are there in spirit : ‘ There are a lot of people who would like to be on this demonstration . |
| 25 | In other words workers would like to be on the L s curve and employers would like to be on the L d curve but , following the decline in aggregate demand , neither workers nor employers are capable of achieving these objectives . |
| 26 | In other words workers would like to be on the L s curve and employers would like to be on the L d curve but , following the decline in aggregate demand , neither workers nor employers are capable of achieving these objectives . |
| 27 | With Ferranti needing to raise a minimum of £150m in new equity , the issue would have to be on the basis of one for two . |
| 28 | If the directives were to be criticised , it would have to be on the basis that any use of the power would damage the reputation of the British broadcasting authorities for independence and that that price was not worth paying for so small an effect . |
| 29 | This meant , for example , that no smoking would be allowed and the use of the blue drawing room would have to be on an occasional basis . |
| 30 | But if we did meet it would have to be on my terms . |