Example sentences of "be on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those responsible for running major contracts in more remote locations may be on a bachelor status with more frequent air tickets . |
| 2 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ Pink said , ‘ I 'd prefer to be on a building site than be a government scientist in this day and age . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd be on a hiding to nothing , ’ said Joe , ‘ and that would probably include being shot at dawn . |
| 4 | Anyone taking out a fixed-rate mortgage now , therefore , could be on a winner . |
| 5 | AT St James Park on Saturday just about everyone seemed to be on a winner . |
| 6 | Hearts ' manager Joe Jordan will be on a survival course in Czechoslovakia on Wednesday when his side face Slavia Prague in the other UEFA tie . |
| 7 | Commencement date : should be on a day sufficiently quiet to bear the inevitable disruption and to accommodate staff training and on a day when staffing is not unduly affected by holidays or other absences . |
| 8 | The Bank makes an estimate of what the liquidity position of the banking system will be on a day to day basis for several weeks ahead . |
| 9 | Yeah , it has to be on a day when I 'm ready for it |
| 10 | In the absence of controls over referrals by non-budget holding GPs , the provision that under such contracts ‘ payment would be on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment by either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with ’ , would appear very similar to a prospective payment system . |
| 11 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 12 | The beam would be on a stick would n't it ? |
| 13 | Pretending to be on a stroll , she hiked up to the car park . |
| 14 | Examples of this are nowadays quoted in most of the newspapers — the 25–30 year-old trader who is earning £200 000–£400 000 whilst the person who runs the whole department may be on a salary of only half this . |
| 15 | There 's also a sub-plot about Gloria , one of the guy 's girlfriends , wanting to be on a TV game show . |
| 16 | When a transfer is arranged this should be on a trial basis normally not exceeding one month . |
| 17 | You 'd have to be on a race tract or a rally circuit to push these to the limit , but on normal roads in normal cars motoring can be more dangerous . |
| 18 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the reasons we want to become a university is to be on a level playing field in terms of recruiting students . |
| 20 | It merely hints that the world will be a better place if we support it because the unquantified benefits which will flow from it will put us on a level with Germany and France , assuming of course that we wish to be on a level with Germany and France . |
| 21 | I should be on a golf course really ! |
| 22 | You ca n't think about they do n't want to be on a station come here in Newcastle . |
| 23 | It wo n't be on a unit that we have n't done . |
| 24 | For United 's own Red flier , Andrei Kanchelskis , warns that the men from Moscow will be on a mission most public — to sell themselves to the big-money clubs of Western Europe . |
| 25 | The swank sounded to be on a knife edge , barely controlling himself . |
| 26 | The bid to obtain Objective One status is understood to be on a knife edge and caution was the order of the day . |
| 27 | The coffee percolator appeared to be on a go-slow , and the grill had incinerated his toast with a savage glee . |
| 28 | HARTLEPOOL will be on a revenge mission at Stockport County tonight . |
| 29 | At the weekend , I happened to be on a panel in a Welsh phone-in along with Wayne Shelford , Brian Price and Phil Bennett . |
| 30 | What if other vicious criminals like us whose wheels had happened to be on a kerb after 6.30 pm had come from , say , Milton Keynes , to see the sell-out play ? |