Example sentences of "they [prep] be on " in BNC.

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1 He himself was the only one among them to be on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee and although that part of south-east Antrim was militantly behind the strike , it had no particular strategic importance .
2 To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care .
3 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 .
4 Use only our own girls and warn them to be on their best behaviour .
5 How long do you want them to be on H R T for ?
6 I like them to be on the premises , however .
7 For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time .
8 He had thought that because the Government allowed them to be on sale ‘ they must be OK ’ .
9 This begins to face education managers with a fundamental dilemma — are they inside the cage with the teaching profession or are they to be on the outside exercising a more explicit control function than ever before ?
10 After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency .
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