Example sentences of "be on [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See apparently education now , we 're on a such a cut back that they 've |
| 2 | ‘ But I see you 're on the same errand as myself . ’ |
| 3 | We 're on the same pitch then , so we give them a game and that would apply in the Premier League . ’ |
| 4 | Easter Monday saw both Leaders Of The New School and the Pete Rock & CL Smooth partnership playing debut UK gigs at different London venues , a situation made all the more frustrating when they 're on the same label . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're on the same side . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 're on the same side . |
| 7 | You said we 're on the same side . |
| 8 | I think , though , ’ the Doctor said , eyes twinkling , ‘ we 'll be able to persuade them that you 're on the same side as the rest of us . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm glad we 're on the same side . |
| 10 | We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in |
| 11 | We 're on the same side , that 's what I 've just said ! |
| 12 | Well if you 're on the same bill as him , well could always just ask him . |
| 13 | and we 're off on Friday , I 'm on a half day on Thursday , so I think I should have my day off on Wednesday . |
| 14 | Throughout 1991 , which has been chosen as the National Trust 's Gardens Year , the focus of public activity will be on the many splendid and varied gardens in the Trust 's care , ranging from the tiny town garden of Fenton House in Hampstead to historic landscape gardens such as Stowe in Buckinghamshire or Stourhead in Wiltshire . |
| 15 | The person who opened it would probably be on the same side as Biff . |
| 16 | I ca n't see them involved in killing an Englishman ; they 're supposed to be on the same side . ’ |
| 17 | Even though we were always moving around , we 'd always be on the same tip ; we 'd go to bed at the same time and my mom would carry cooking pots into hotels and cook — stink out the whole place with curry . |
| 18 | At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations . |
| 19 | They would be on the same corridor as him in the Embassy 's accommodation annexe , and later they would talk through the case history together . |
| 20 | CERN , for instance , is ready to swing over to NT and abandon its Unix boxes because the administration side there is awash with incompatible PCs and Macs and if the techies give up their Unix stations then everybody will be on the same system . |
| 21 | Since this brings out what they have in common and shows them to be on the same side , we too shall use ‘ Positivism ’ to include the Realist approach . |
| 22 | To be on the same wavelength . |
| 23 | You and Joey are supposed to be on the same team . |
| 24 | In the second case ( necessary false consciousness/irrational prejudice ) racism is seen as dysfunctional because it distorts the perception of reality and generates division amongst those who should be on the same side . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , braking and getting out — at least they would be on the same level then , instead of her being ten frigid feet tall and him crouching six inches high in the driving seat of his car — ‘ about last night … ’ |
| 26 | ) Because accounting reports are used to monitor the allocation of resources in the economy , they should all be on the same basis . |
| 27 | Then the assessment of B's damages would be on the same basis and B would similarly be entitled to £500 . |
| 28 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 29 | ‘ By morning , we ought to be on the same side of the Forth as they are , and facing the open space to the west of the forest . |
| 30 | If everything tumbled into place there was just a chance that they could be on the same ferry as the Renault , at 1330 hours the next day . |