Example sentences of "to [be] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation went against the grain , as the top brass always needed to be on top of every situation and on top of every executive if they were to do their jobs to their own satisfaction ; not necessarily in the best interests of the Corporation , that is to say , but in their own best interests . |
| 2 | You still have to be on top of your stuff , though — judges expect a certain level of competence to staging a little-girl-lost act in court will do no good whatsoever . |
| 3 | I mean you 're never going to control , you 're never going to be on top of it but I mean |
| 4 | In routine work the field man must display himself as competent in other , subtler ways , showing himself to be on top of his job . |
| 5 | 2 The base line of the protractor has to be on top of the bottom edge of the angle . |
| 6 | They were all grins and seemed to be on top of the world . |
| 7 | Tod and I seem to be on top of the work , and nobody has complained so far . |
| 8 | At any time you can draw one card from below any pile , that is to say it does n't have to be on top of the pile . |
| 9 | As a result , when it comes to his turn to be on top of his wife again , he falls down backwards on to her ( 4281 ) , the wrong way around for sexual intercourse , as she sleeps with John after their night-time labours . |
| 10 | We were most anxious to keep the full informed of what 's happening and we seem to be on top of the job as it were . |
| 11 | At least , Sara was ostensibly pushing it , but Dr Kent 's hand seemed to be on top of hers , helping her to guide it along the passage between the rooms . |
| 12 | Yeah , well you do n't expect him to be on top of the world do you ? |
| 13 | Such approaches have always seen the complexity of design activity with its range of apparently contradictory impulses and antitheses ; is the emphasis to be on questions of form or of function or on solving technical or aesthetic desires and needs ? |
| 14 | It was the John and a very big factory in it 's day , in as much as it was er four storeys high , rather high in those days for heavy machinery to be on level like that . |
| 15 | On Wednesdays Karen will be at Suffolk College , Ipswich with a beginners ' class and the full day course , again on the ribber , is to be on Fridays at Thorpe High School , Clacton . |
| 16 | As for Hughes ' own career , everything seems to be on course for world domination . |
| 17 | Maidstone had the best of the early exchanges but the Seasiders were under little real threat and seemed to be on course for at least a draw . |
| 18 | Yeah , er well put it under any other business Erm nothing more about that one other to say that we seem to be on course for finishing er about the zero mark which is what we 're targetting . |
| 19 | Even if he is not frightened , he will still have to be on guard at all times — just in case you jump out and attack . |
| 20 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 21 | The public and police have to be on guard against all these tactics . |
| 22 | Ideally the British wanted the Americans to be on call in reserve , not edging themselves into the premier position . |
| 23 | And then there 's the commercial challenge from Classic FM , which is expected to be on air in the autumn . |
| 24 | This year it 's on profit , on budget at the half-way stage and I expect it to be on budget by the end of the year . |
| 25 | Anne Pennick in an essay on the tunnels of Glastonbury claims that larger tunnels follow ley lines ( originally straight alignments of assorted ancient historic sites , now credited to be on lines of mystic energy ) , and that they reflect the ‘ mystery and sanctity attaching to places of paramount geomantic importance in the topographical interrelation of religious sites ’ . |
| 26 | His estranged wife and two children lived nearby , they 're said to be on holiday at the moment . |
| 27 | I know Gilbert Racy and I happen to be on holiday in Hereward 's parish . ’ |
| 28 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Once the director took Dustin aside and said , ‘ This is the only day we 're ever going to shoot this scene and , no matter how exhausted or lousy you feel , I want you to remember that what you give me is going to be on celluloid for people to see for ever and ever . |