Example sentences of "[noun sg] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-thirds of the homes have been constructed and the remainder are on target for an autumn completion . |
| 2 | " The terms of purchase are on your receipt , sir . " |
| 3 | Details of the 1993 Award are on page 3 . |
| 4 | Paul Jenkins , of the National Occupational Hygiene Service charity , has said that ‘ Court cases over passive smoking are on the way . |
| 5 | But although there are hundreds of freshwater lochs in Shetland , the majority are on the acidic peatlands and do not produce enough underwater vegetation to satisfy the needs of big grazing birds like swans . |
| 6 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 7 | He notes that ‘ men are hardly to be brought to think that sweetness and whiteness are not really in manna ’ , but this does not lead him to question his declared view that sweetness and whiteness are on a par with the ‘ ideas of sickness and pain' , ideas which ‘ are not in the manna , but effects of its operations on us , and are nowhere when we feel them not ’ . |
| 8 | We decided that the the otential the action potential of course are on Editor A look at control , we can look at single channel currents . |
| 9 | Place the snakes on the game board , making sure that the head and tail of each snake are on squares of the same colour . |
| 10 | Three Polish medics based at Krakow University are on a three-week fact-finding trip to Teesside . |
| 11 | Indiana Jones 's trousers and matching shirt are on sale at around £1,200 , but his famous bullwhip is expected to fetch more than £3,000 , the same as Darth Vader 's helmet . |
| 12 | Subjects like robotics and micro electronics are on the curriculum for a group of gifted ten year olds . |
| 13 | For brush strokes of a different kind are on show at the city centre salon through paintings by Belfast artists Fiona Connolly and Donna McGarrigan . |
| 14 | our rugby action this week comes from the divisional championships … the South West are on course to win these because on Saturday at Gloucester they made it two wins out of two … this time out they beat the North by 29 points to 16 |
| 15 | And despite the fact that Ministry are on the brink of a Metallica-scale take-over in the US , Barker hints that he and Jourgensen are now questioning how much further they actually want to push the band . |
| 16 | The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season . |
| 17 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 18 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 19 | … the hounds of spring are on winter 's traces … |
| 20 | Mike 's plans for the future are on hold . |
| 21 | Your personal astrological chart , from which Debbie works out your character , past and future are on software . |
| 22 | This last comment does n't mean that we can strap on our sixshooters and holsters , but rather the guns of the artillery are on call if we should have a chance to use them . |
| 23 | Members of the department are on call 24 hours-a-day . |
| 24 | He declared that ‘ discipline , order , morality and civilisation are on a higher level out there than in China ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 25 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 26 | So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere . |
| 27 | The particular forms of the study are on the transition to old age and the process of ageing . |
| 28 | Electric windows and mirrors , central locking , rear heating , rear wash/wipe and a tilt wheel are on all models , but today 's hard-pressed executive has to find another £701 for a sunroof and £1,092 for air conditioning . |
| 29 | i It is believed that the government and the tobacco industry are on the verge of signing a new voluntary agreement , according to a report in Marketing . |
| 30 | PETER HORBURY takes the telephone receiver and the operator tells him the police and ambulance are on their way . |