Example sentences of "that [noun prp] be on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 2 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |
| 3 | All the managers knew that Karen was on the Committee because she always had a notebook in her hand . |
| 4 | Latvia and Lithuania have some of the best players in the world … but the good news is that England are on the march … |
| 5 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 6 | Uncertain of the kind of climate which awaited her , she 'd consulted her hastily purchased travel guide , to be informed that Copenhagen was on the same latitude as Newcastle-on-Tyne in England and shared similar weather patterns . |
| 7 | The deceased 's solicitor , Eustace Tolby , attested that Newley was on the verge of instituting divorce proceedings against his wife . |
| 8 | The pressure is on him , if for not other reason than he knows that Deano is on the bench . |
| 9 | It was their fault , really , that Jesus was on the cross . |
| 10 | Arius had been excommunicated by his bishop , Alexander , for denying that Christ is on the divine side of the gulf between the Creator and his creation . |
| 11 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 12 | I think people in the British churches , and probably outside them , twenty or thirty years ago lived in a rather secure world and they understood that God was on the whole on the side of the British Empire and the missionaries as they went out to civilize other places , and that was true also of the other European forms of God . |
| 13 | It has also been suggested that Dounreay is on the brink of signing contracts with reactors in Canada . |
| 14 | He warned , however , that the perception abroad that Yugoslavia was on the brink of disintegration and civil war was inhibiting foreign investment in the country . |
| 15 | The experience convinced him that Europe was on the brink of revolution , and he threw himself into revolutionary Anarchist ‘ Situationism ’ , which rejected conventional left-wing political parties . |
| 16 | It was the speed at which the decline occurred which led to wild suggestions that Britain was on the verge of a race suicide . |
| 17 | A rumour that Oxford were on the verge of takeover 3 weeks ago came to nothing , while Richard Branson and the boxing promoter Frank Warren have both denied they 're ready to buy . |
| 18 | Its contents and tone led him to suspect that Diana was on the verge of quitting The Firm . |
| 19 | Everybody knows that Vijay is on the range longer than anyone else , but Carriles is the Spanish Vijay Singh ! |
| 20 | The whole world must have known that Hubert was on the river . |
| 21 | On June 10 , 1990 , the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) ended a two-day annual conference with a warning that Poland was on the verge of a major social explosion as a result of economic reform . |
| 22 | The earlier period had aroused many expectations that America was on the verge of a social cinema , but , as the social-problem films of the post-1933 period came along , critics were to be uneasy about many of their characteristics . |
| 23 | Another Heineken weekend of records and dazzling rugby has convinced fans that Wales are on the brink of a new golden era of back play . |
| 24 | Now on Friday we were saying that Gloucester were on the right track … that West Hartlepool would be railroaded by them on saturday … bad news … the cherry and whites suffered a points failure … they went and lost by six points to twenty one |