Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I will never forget Bill Mackowiack , my ball turret gunner , who did n't have to be on that mission with me . |
| 32 | Did it have to be on this evening that Kate , that notorious hedgerow flirt , should have come in early to steal his mission of mercy and love ? |
| 33 | Sometimes I do n't want to be on that stage . |
| 34 | Most people , he finds , positively enjoy having one or two large grand rooms and , since the main staterooms in these houses tend to be on one floor , they can be apportioned between the individual houses . |
| 35 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 36 | The 23-year-old Nortumbrian went off hard with South Shields Harrier Dave Beris and looked to be on record-breaking pace . |
| 37 | The second bid issue is the careers service branch development fund which is the one that 's available every year , but we originally had Jane 's project , the F E project and so , erm now this year the bids have been asked to be on certain subject areas . |
| 38 | So it proved to be on this occasion . |
| 39 | In due course , these new laws were applied against the protesters who appeared to be on strong ground when challenging their convictions , since , in their haste to bring these laws into operation , the drafters had apparently acted ultra vires . |
| 40 | A high proportion were repeat visitors who appeared to be on good terms with the reception and service staff . |
| 41 | decide whether or not they really need to be on that site for fourteen hours or can they do what they need to do in four ? |
| 42 | erm There 's always an ambivalence in the relationship between governors and schools in that , in order to have a good relationship with a head , you need to be on friendly terms with him so that the head , or her , so that the head will communicate with the governors . |
| 43 | In addition an on-site back-up pumping arrangement with a similar throughput was required to be on permanent standby in order that continuity of water level was maintained on either side of the diversion . |
| 44 | a bad scene that it 's only gon na be on certain jobs . |
| 45 | So what 's gon na be on this stall then ? |
| 46 | So you 've got quite a lot of time Now , there 's some spare ones of these on the front as well When you get this scr scrub out item number eleven which is on the back because these are the notes that w went out for the social psychology exam And I would be you 'd be in a little bit of trouble if you revised wh influences of text ha b li had literature had on our lives , discuss three books , cos it ai n't gon na be on this paper |
| 47 | I wan na be on this course findin' out . |