Example sentences of "thing [be] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When things are on the up and the lodestar of a transformatory politics shines bright , so too does ‘ the avant-garde project of overcoming the separation of art and life ’ ( p. 171 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the players who have suffered , but now there are signs that things are on the mend . ’ |
| 3 | In the second stage , usually identified with areas 18 and 19 ( also known as prestriate cortex ) , information about where things are on the retina is lost and replaced with information about where they are in relation to each other . |
| 4 | But now things are on the slide , and despite grunts that the City 's slump is only a passing phase , warnings of London 's undoing are arising . |
| 5 | Still , things are on the right lines . |
| 6 | So , if you do the documentation in advance in the documentation yeah , in the documentation , I explain what spreadsheets there are , where things are on the spreadsheets , the various procedures for how to do certain things . |
| 7 | So I know where things are on the spreadsheets . |
| 8 | Shows you , yeah , you got boxes showing you where things are on the spreadsheets , and you got some tags saying what those are . |
| 9 | I spent much time in that area and I know that brighter things are on the horizon for Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 10 | Culturally , however , things are on the move . |
| 11 | Them things are on the , can you see her ? |
| 12 | The RAF ground crews , the unsung heroes of this time , continued to work round the clock , the air crews seemed never to be out of their aeroplanes , and the rest of us waltzed through our duties with the exhilarating feeling that at last things were on the move in the right direction . |
| 13 | I felt my spirits lifting even more ; things were on the move at last . |
| 14 | Even Charlie felt things were on the up when Mrs Smelley 's smiling face appeared , to buy more potatoes for her boarding house in one morning than he would normally have hoped to sell a regular customer in a month . |
| 15 | ‘ Bloody thing 's on the blink . |
| 16 | The blasted thing 's on the blink again . |
| 17 | We looked into all sorts of different buildings , and that would be suitable , and we 've decided the best thing is on the shipping containers , they 're water proof , they 're vandal proof , and they 're recycled as well , which helps . |
| 18 | The thing was on the blink again . |
| 19 | There was like a prawl in the flywheel , and you pulled a lever like that and it , there was n't a connection on to the , like on to the crankshaft with a starting handle , this thing was on the flywheel and it was like a lever |
| 20 | that blue thing was on the window ! |