Example sentences of "[be] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're the only two guests , so if you 're on separate floors it means you 've each got your own bathroom . |
| 2 | Until today only season ticket- and voucher-holders could apply for tickets for Monday 's Play-Off Final against Leicester , but now they 're on general sale . |
| 3 | thin ground I think you 're on dangerous grounds adjusting the formulations are n't you without |
| 4 | Now we 're on mutual ground . ’ |
| 5 | You 're on various bits and bobs , and you 're also on the cream . |
| 6 | We 've had erm I would n't say a fall out but er we 're on frosty terms to say the least . |
| 7 | ‘ The collection 's called ‘ Owo ’ , Nigerian for ‘ person ’ — it looks good on both men and women , whether they 're on open Swiss ski-slopes or in a cramped British club . |
| 8 | We 're exactly the same age , and have similar backgrounds , so we 're on common ground from the start . |
| 9 | You 're on active assignment , Manville . |
| 10 | Cos I says thirty odd quid , she says yeah they 're on special |
| 11 | To April he explained , ‘ I believe they 're on different pipes to us so it 's just possible their water might be unaffected . ’ |
| 12 | I have n't had a chance to talk to my husband because we 're on different shifts |
| 13 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 14 | You know they 're on brown rings with little little tiny screw screwed in metal rings in the brown things ? |
| 15 | " … that we 're on opposite sides of the desk , as it were . " |
| 16 | Lucky you 're on opposite sides of the room . |
| 17 | We 're on social security and we 've virtually had to fight for everything we 've got . |
| 18 | So if you 're on full energy and have a potion of healing while your buddy 's damn-near dead , it 's tough — you ca n't let him swig it ! |
| 19 | You rely on speed and on raising an lowering the tappet , so when you put your foot on the decelerator it drops the tappet down and stops the value opening , then you 're on full compression and then you pull up , and that 's your main brake . |
| 20 | In this business , you 're on dodgy ground trying to attach the words ‘ courage ’ and ‘ integrity ’ to anything ; certainly the Heavenly EP is for a good cause , and those involved are doing a lot for their profiles in the worthiest possible way , blah blah , charidee , blah blah AIDS , but Sinead has done too ( see following letter ) and in any case , she 's on another planet to these people . |
| 21 | Smile , you 're on candid camera ! |
| 22 | Well you 're on candid tape . |
| 23 | Well I suppose so yeah cos when you 're on supplementary benefit |
| 24 | The other , the other thing that we worked , w we 've been working with , and are still working with , erm to take up campaign for tenants in who 're on Supplementary Benefit or Housing Benefit supplement , erm to claim the higher rate heating addition for their flat . |
| 25 | So you 're on Supplementary ? |
| 26 | We 're on Spinal Tap 's guest list ! ’ |
| 27 | This feature is also useful for keeping things in view when you 're on unsteady ground . |
| 28 | At the present time jobs are not easy to come by , and if you 're on permanent , or rather short-term contracts renewed all the time this makes a difference to where you can get to compared with a man with the equivalent training . |
| 29 | They were being kept nine to a cell in the jail.At first they were sleeping on the concrete floor , now they 're on wooden slats . |
| 30 | I 'm on living assurance , I thought that was low . |